Bell, Darrin
Summary: "This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that--to paraphrase Toni Morrison--does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 BELL, DARRIN BELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BELL BELEllison, Marc
Summary: "By the delicate hand of Didier Kassaï (Storm Over Bangui) comes a comic book documentary about the street children of Bangui, told in a style that mixes photo and illustration. In the Central African Republic, children grow up in a state of insecurity, poverty, and malnutrition. The 2013 conflict only exacerbated this situation. The Central African Republic has become what many call a house...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Drawn by Humanoids 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.23 ELLQuick, Megan
Summary: "Life in colonial America differed depending on where you lived. Some places depended on the body of water they lived by. Some places were already bustling towns. But no matter the colony, one way America grew was through the kids that lived and grew up there! In this book, readers delve into the family life, schooling, food, clothing, and other ways of life of kids who lived during the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: To survive the juvenile system is a miracle, to survive the adult system twice is insane. Follow entrepreneur Chris Martin's story from being a kid in the foster care system to an adult in the prison system, to a successful business man. After a lifetime of getting kicked when he was down, Chris Martin found the love of his life and now spends his time, building his many businesses and trying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nandar 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HATHaidt, Jonathan
Summary: After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s, with rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rising sharply. The author lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time, and then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Kamenetz, Anya
Summary: "An NPR education reporter shows how the last true social safety net-- the public school system--was decimated by the pandemic, and how years of short-sighted political decisions have failed to put our children first. School has long meant much more than an education in America. 30 million children depend on free school meals. Schools are, statistically, the safest physical places for children...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.43 KAMMadrick, Jeffrey G.
Summary: "By official count, more than one out of every six American children live beneath the poverty line. But statistics alone tell little of the story. In Invisible Americans, Jeff Madrick brings to light the often invisible reality and irreparable damage of child poverty in America. Keeping his focus on the children, he examines the roots of the problem, including the toothless remnants of our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.7 MADEllis, Jay
Summary: "What to do when you're the perpetual new kid, only child, military brat hustling school-to-school each year and everyone's looking to you for answers? Make some shit up, of course! And a young Jay Ellis does just that, with help from every child's favorite co-conspirator--their imaginary best friend. Born in the perfect storm of especially ferocious rain and a sugar-fueled imagination, Mikey,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELLIS, JAY ELLHart, Melissa
Summary: "Needed now more than ever: a guide that includes 500 diverse contemporary fiction and memoir recommendations for preteens and teens with the goal of inspiring greater empathy for themselves, their peers, and the world around them. As young people are diagnosed with anxiety and depression in increasing numbers, or dealing with other issues that can isolate them from family and friends-such as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 152.4 HARChurchill, Ward.
Summary: Ward (American Indian studies, U. of Colorado, Boulder) traces the history of removing Native American children from their homes to residential schools as part of government policies, 1880s-1980s, which he views as genocidal. He includes photos of victims of "residential school syndrome," and a list of these schools in the US and Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.829 CHUMark, Sabrina Orah
Summary: "The literary tradition of the fairy tale has long endured as the vehicle by which we interrogate the laws of reality. These fantastical stories, populated with wolves, kings, and wicked witches, have throughout history served as a template for understanding culture, society, and that muddy terrain we call our collective human psyche. In Happily, Sabrina Orah Mark reimagines the modern fairy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARK, SABRINA ORAH MARMcCarney, Rosemary A
Summary: Describes the different ways children in developing countries travel to school, crossing rivers, mountains, and fields of ice, emphasizing the difficulties of accessing education in remote areas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 372 MCCLuiselli, Valeria
Summary: "Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights thecontradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear--both here and back home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.23 LUISummary: "One of the preeminent figures of Iranian cinema, Mohsen Makhmalbaf has written and directed an impressive array of acclaimed films, winning accolades at international film festivals and admiration of world cinema audiences. This collection presents three of his most lyrical works which the director has termed his Poetic Trilogy. Gabbeh tells of an elderly couple who stop by a stream to wash...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MOHNazario, Sonia.
Summary: Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.23 NAZSummary: In 1983, director Martin Bell, photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and journalist Cheryl McCall set out to tell the stories of homeless and runaway teenagers in Seattle. These two films together create a frank, empathetic portrait of lost youth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC STRLuchetti, Cathy
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 978.02 LUCJosephson, Judith Pinkerton.
Summary: Describes what life was like for young people moving to and living on the western frontier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 JOSSummary: "Originally told on-stage and adapted here for the page, these 36 fascinating, unique, and celebratory stories of migration, culture shock, family, and life come from well-known voices including Sonia Manzano, Alexander Chee, Andrae Aciman, Laura Gaomez,Aparna Nancherla as well as regular people hailing from every corner of the world. The past and present of immigration in the United States...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 ALIHagerman, Margaret A.
Summary: American kids are living in a world of ongoing public debates about race, daily displays of racial injustice, and for some, an increased awareness surrounding diversity and inclusion. In this heated context, sociologist Margaret A. Hagerman zeroes in on affluent, white kids to observe how they make sense of privilege, unequal educational opportunities, and police violence. In fascinating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.2 HAGRoberts, Dorothy E.
Summary: "An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change. Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.7 ROBLutz, Amy S. F.
Summary: "In her 2006 memoir Strange Son, Portia Iversen coined the phrase "intact mind" to describe the typical cognitive abilities she believed were buried within even the most seemingly impaired autistic individuals, like her son Dov - who, at nine years old, was completely nonverbal and spent much of his time "chewing on blocks and tapping stones." Although he didn't know the alphabet, colors, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2024