Summary: "As these poetic, innocent, funny, and wise letters make clear, kids today are striving, in ways Dr. King might not have foreseen, to make their dream come true."--Jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 1998
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.092 DEAAlabed, Bana
Summary: Bana's mother tells her of the strong bana tree that grows in their homeland, Syria, and how Bana's strength helped her survive war, being a refugee, and starting fresh in a new country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALASummary: Over twenty-five years ago two Americans, Dr. Diana Frade and her husband, Episcopalian Bishop Leo Frade, founded Our Little Roses Home for Girls in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Until then abandoned girls were often given to prisoners since no such homes existed. Now Our Little Roses has some 60 rescued or orphaned girls in a city once considered the "murder capital of the world." Poverty and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: T́́́ía Chucha Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 COUSummary: A collection of inspirational stories for preteens and their families.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Backlist, LLC, a unit of Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing 2012
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Edited by and for 8-14 year old girls, New Moon is the beautiful, international magazine that girls, adults, and families love! Celebrating girls in all their diversity, New Moon is for every girl who wants her voice heard and her dreams taken seriously. 48 pages, no ads
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Moon Girl Media 2008
Copies Available at Interlochen
3 available in Juvenile Mag, Call number: 2019-03/04Call number: 2019-05/06
Call number: 2019-07/08
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Mag, Call number: 2022-SpringSummary: Adults and kids alike will fall in love with Jack in this touching true story of one dog's journey to find a family of his own. Through a series of lucky and some not-so-lucky events, Jack overcomes his past and finds a bright new future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2012
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.7 KIDKoch, Kenneth
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1973
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.5 KOCNadim
Summary: "Four-year-old Nadim puts his words on paper and gives us a glimpse of how he sees the world: one filled with glitter, magical boxes, and cuddles with Mom. A place where school smells like daffodils and honey (and sometimes dirty socks), where Wednesdaysare rainbow-colored, where fish in the sea make a shhhh sound, and where everyone has love, even baddies. The poems in this anthology make for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821 NADBurdett, Lois
Summary: Describes Shakespeare's life through the eyes of children. Includes children's illustrations, children's writings, and a genealogy of Shakespeare's family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 1998