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  Drizzle

  Kathleen Van Cleve

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  Author Kathleen Van Cleve delivers a promising debut with this magical novel. Eleven-year-old Polly Peabody lives on a farm like no other. It rains every Monday at 1:00 p.m., the crops taste like chocolate, the bugs can communicate, and Polly's best friend is a rhubarb plant named Harry. But when the weekly downpours stop, and Polly's brother grows ill, she must figure out how to make it rain again-or her family's future could be destroyed. "Cleve's debut is emotionally subtle and action packed with a highly memorable setting."-Publishers Weekly

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  Miles of Style - Eunice W...

  Lisa D. Brathwaite

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  A chic biography about Eunice W. Johnson who brought elegant and contemporary fashion to Black America through the annual EBONY Fashion Fair! Eunice W. Johnson believed in the power of fashion and beauty to inspire people. After she and her husband, John H. Johnson, founded EBONY magazine, it quickly became the premiere lifestyle publication for mid-century Black readers. Among the many hats she wore, Eunice delighted in writing a fashion column describing the latest styles. In 1958, Eunice launched a project that would change fashion forever--the EBONY Fashion Fair. In towns and cities across the United States, Black models walked the runway in the freshest trends that season and Black attendees got to see people who looked like them in bright colors and haute couture. To make the Fashion Fair happen every year, Eunice negotiated with snobby fashion houses in Europe and navigated racism back home in the US, to acquire the most show-stopping styles for her show. Decades later, her name remains a watchword for glamour and elegance in the Black community. Winner of Lee & Low's New Voices award, Miles of Style celebrates a visionary who used her influence to showcase the strength and beauty of the Black community.

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  The House Swap

  Yvette Clark

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  The House Swap has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

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  A Cloud Called Bhura - Climate...

  Bijal Vachharajani

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  From award-winning author Bijal Vachharajani, A Cloud Called Bhura is a delightful middle-grade novel that tackles climate change through an inspiring lens of friendship, trust, and community. 
  Amni wakes up one morning to find the sky taken over by a huge brown cloud. Even as she and her friends start to discover more, their city of Mumbai starts reeling from the changes the cloud brings to the weather. Bhura Cloudus (as the media calls it) causes scalding rain to fall, makes birds flee the city, and suffocates every living thing. 
  As chaos continues to build and the climate changes brought by Bhura become disastrous, there are several questions on everyone’s mind: What will the powerful politician, Mota Bhai, do now? Can the scientist twins Vidisha and Bidisha find a solution? What about superstar Pavan Kumar and the amazing cloud-sucking machine? Will Bhura ever be driven away—or is it already too late? 
  Thought-provoking, funny, and inspiring, A Cloud Called Bhura is about changing global climate and the havoc it can cause—as well as the forces of friendship, trust, and community that give hope and help counter this deadly threat to humanity.

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  Ameera's Song

  Hareena Kaur

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  A Modern Fairy Tale about Courage and Belief 
  Ameera and her two sisters, Neena and Kumari, are princesses who have everything they could ever want. The only thing missing is a connection with their mother, who died when they were very young. 
  In an effort to learn more about their mother, the princesses set off in search of their grandmother, whom they have not seen since they were babies. With the help of some animal friends along the way, Ameera and her sisters come across an old woman in the woods. The princesses presume she is their grandmother, but when her sisters disappear, one-by-one, Ameera suspects the woman isn’t their grandmother at all, but a conniving witch. Suddenly, Ameera is fighting for her life against a woman more wicked than Ameera could have ever imagined. Can Ameera discover the courage within to do what it takes to find her way home? 
  In Ameera’s Song, author Hareena Kaur provides readers with an engrossing fairy tale featuring an inspiring young woman and important themes, such as:CourageCreative problem-solvingLimitless thinking 
  Aimed primarily at readers aged five to ten, Ameera’s Song fuses the magic of classic fairy tales with contemporary messages that will inspire courage within every child.

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  Civil War Presidents The:...

  Editors Charles River

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  Abraham Lincoln is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the country’s most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the “Westerner” who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before becoming the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln successfully navigated the Union through the Civil War but didn’t live to witness his crowning achievement, becoming the first president assassinated when he was shot at Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.  
  In the generation after the Civil War, Lincoln became an American deity and one of the most written about men in history. With such a sterling reputation, even historians hesitate to write a critical word; in Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin casts Lincoln as an almost superhuman puppet master in control of his Cabinet’s political machinations and the war’s direction, juggling the balancing act flawlessly. As a result, Lincoln the man is far less known than Lincoln the myth.  
  Jefferson Davis holds a unique place in American history, as the man best remembered for being the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War. While other famous Confederates like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are still celebrated across the reunited country, Davis continues to be the object of scorn, derided over his attempt to flee after the Civil War and criticized as ineffective by historians. Among the Confederates still lauded by today’s Southerners, Davis is well down the list. History has accorded Abraham Lincoln a spot in the pantheon of American politics for the manner in which he steered the Union to victory and into the Reconstruction period after the war. In turn, Davis has been heavily criticized.

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