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81) My name is Bilal
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When Bilal and his sister transfer to a school where they are the only Muslims, they must learn how to fit in while staying true to their beliefs and heritage.
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Twin daughters of interracial parents, eleven-year-olds Keira and Minna have very different skin tones and personalities, but it is not until their African American grandmother enters them in the Miss Black Pearl Pre-Teen competition in North Carolina that red-haired and pale-skinned Minna realizes what life in their small town in the Pacific Northwest has been like for her more outgoing, darker-skinned sister.
88) Trouble
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A squirrel sees nothing but trouble in a bear newcomer who has terrible teeth, knife-like claws, and an oversized appetite, while her pet mouse perceives a new neighbor who is just trying to be friendly.
90) Identity theft
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Amateur detective Nancy Drew is once again involved in a case of internet stalking and bullying that makes her confuse her real life with that of the online avatar she has created in an internet reality game.
91) Kit's home run
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In 1933 Cincinnati, Kit is an enthusiastic baseball player whose home run slide has surprising consequences. Includes historical notes on major league baseball and the Cincinnati Reds in the 1930s and provides ideas for decorating a baseball cap.
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"A story of a kingdom that's better together. In this moving and valuable story, a king banishes anyone who looks different than him and builds a wall to keep them away. His kingdom was once flourishing with singers and sculptors, dancers and astronomers, and everyone in between. Now, most of the people are gone. Once he sees how lonely his side of the wall has become, he realizes where he went wrong and gains a new appreciation for his diverse and...
95) New kid in town
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When Mouse arrives in town, the other residents are quick to welcome him but also to warn about the Big Wolf, whose size, green teeth, and snapping jaws are terrible to behold.
96) El muro
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Durante los meses de sequía, el alimento escasea en el valle del Okavango. Las jirafas comen la hierba de las cebras, y los rinocerontes, la de los hipopótamos. Pero lo peor es lo que sucede entre los elefantes ..
During the months of drought, food becomes scarce in the Okavango Valley. The giraffes eat the the zebras' grass; the rhinos eat what belongs to the hippos. But worst of all is what happens among the elephants ..
97) Gypsy girl
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After she is orphaned, seven-year-old Kizzy, who has lived as a Romany, or Gypsy, all her life, must face a small English town's intolerance and find herself a new home and family.
98) Different days
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Twelve-year-old Rosie and her brother face homelessness in Honolulu when their parents, Americans of German descent, are interrogated and imprisoned as suspected spies after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Includes historical notes.
99) Hidden roots
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Although he is uncertain why his father is so angry and what secret his mother is keeping from him, eleven-year-old Sonny knows that he is different from his classmates in their small New York town.
100) Stumptown kid
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In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska, whose father died in the Korean War, learns the meanings of both racism and heroism when he befriends a black man who had played baseball in the Negro Leagues.