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Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori 214 pp. New York Ballantine, 1993 (Call number PB MORI) |
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Namesakeby Jhumpa Lahiri 291 pp. New York Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003 (Call number: FIC LAHIRI) |
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Summary A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life.  Click here for reviewsNow
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Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty 340 pp. New York Arthur A. Levine Books, 2004 (Call Number: FIC MOR) |
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Get There From Here by Todd Strasser 197 pp. New York Simon & Schuster, 2004 (Call Number: FIC STRASSER) |
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Summary Her street name is Maybe. She lives with a tribe of homeless teens -- runaways and throwaways, kids who have no place to go other than the cold city streets, and no family except for one another. Abused, abandoned, and forgotten, they struggle against the cold, hunger, and constant danger. Click here for reviewsJunior Library Guild Selection Now
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Laughter Here by Rita Williams-Garcia 133 pp. HarperCollins Publishers, 2004 (Call Number: FIC WIL) |
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Annotation In Queens, New York, ten-year-old Akilah is determined to find out why her closest friend, Victoria, is silent and withdrawn after returning from a trip to her homeland, Nigeria. Click here for reviewsJunior Library Guild Selection Coretta Scott King Honor Author Now
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Double Helix by Nancy Werlin 252 pp. Dial Books, 2004 (Call Number: FIC WER) |
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Annotation Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering. Click here for reviewsEdgar Award Winner Now
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