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Friendship Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Mexican Americans Fiction Mexican Americans Juvenile fiction Mexicans United States Fiction Mexicans United States Juvenile fiction Polish Americans Fiction Polish Americans Juvenile fiction United States History 20th century Fiction United States History 20th century Juvenile fictionLowry, Lois
Summary: Eleven-year-old Sophia endeavors to prevent her increasingly forgetful eighty-eight-year-old neighbor and best friend Sophie from entering assisted living, and in the process, uncovers unexpected stories of war, loss, and hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOWEstes, Eleanor
Summary: In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. Includes a note from the author's daughter, Helena Estes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC ESTSontag, Susan
Summary: Poland's greatest actress, Maryna Zalezowska, ends her career to start a utopian commune in California in 1876, and when the enterprise fails, intrigue and passion follow her into a new acting career in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus Giroux 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SONPotok, Chaim.
Summary: The novel, set in the Bronx, New York, concerns a gifted Jewish boy who becomes a Biblical scholar. From shortly after birth, in the 1920's, David Lurie is plagued by illnesses that prove to be emblematic of his growing up. He is bullied by bigger boys, haunted by the "accidents" that he brings upon others, safe only within his pious home. David's inner life, tortured with fears and bad dreams...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf : distributed by Random House 1975
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTAlgren, Nelson
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALGSocha, C. Joseph
Summary: Paul Krol is a private investigator whose friends jokingly call him 'King of The Polish PIs" (Krol in Polish means king). Paul is six five on a muscular frame, walks with a slight limp and carries a cane. Professional football player is what Paul wanted to be but the dream crashed with an injury sustained in the Michigan State-Purdue football game. He became a high school phys-ed instructor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Xlibris Corporation LLC 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOCPaolini, Nicole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAOLeighton, Maxinne Rhea.
Summary: The Christmas holidays are filled with uncertainty for Krysia as she, her mother, and two brothers approach Ellis Island on a ship filled with other Polish immigrants hoping to start fresh in the New World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2005
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Summary: A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2000
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Summary: In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1974
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ESTEstes, Eleanor
Summary: In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace and Company 1944
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ESTEstes, Eleanor
Summary: In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. Includes a note from the author's daughter, Helena Estes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ESTSánchez, Erika L.
Summary: "Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2018
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH SANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult World, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH SANMartinez, Claudia Guadalupe
Summary: En el primer libro infantil que describe el capítulo olvidado de la historia de los Estados Unidos conocido como la Repatriación Mexicana, un niño y su familia dejan su amado hogar para evitar ser separados por el gobierno. Ante la perspectiva de ser separados, un niño y su familia toman la difícil decisión de dejar su hogar y emprender un viaje lleno de incertidumbre. En el camino, se...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2022