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A Boy Is Not a Bird
A young boy finds his world overturned when his family is uprooted and exiled to Siberia during the occupation of the Soviet Ukraine by Nazi Germany.
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You Are Not What We Expected
This collection is a portrait of a Jewish community and the secular and religious families who inhabit it and the tensions that exist there.
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The Family Clause
From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.
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I Am Ariel Sharon
I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.
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The second book in the gripping Ava Lee spin-off series features Uncle Chow Tung and his ascendancy to the head of the Triad gang in Fanling.
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Coming Up for Air
A lyrical, powerful, and richly textured novel about three lives that intertwine across oceans and time.
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As Far As You Know
From one of the defining poets of his generation, a collection that plumbs the depth of beauty, history, responsibility, and love.
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to 7
/ grades P
to 2
Sonata for Fish and Boy
Music inspires friendship and a life full of dreams and adventure in this wordless picture book from Milan Pavlović.
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My Mad Hair Day
Thanks to her wild head of hair, Malie gets all tangled up with an unexpected cast of characters in this funny, stylish twist of a tall tale.
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Aquí era el paraíso / Here Was Paradise
A collection of poetry by one of the greatest Indigenous poets of the Americas about the vanished world of his childhood — that of the Maya K’iche’.
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ages 6
to 9
/ grades 1
to 4
Anthony and the Gargoyle
A boy befriends a baby gargoyle in this magical wordless story in graphic-novel style from award-winning creators Jo Ellen Bogart and Maja Kastelic.
