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  The Book of Hallowe'en

  Ruth Edna Kelley

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  This book is intended to give the reader an account of the origin and history of Hallowe'en, how it absorbed some customs belonging to other days in the year,-such as May Day, Midsummer, and Christmas. The context is illustrated by selections from ancient and modern poetry and prose, related to Hallowe'en ideas. (Summary by Ruth Kelley, from the Preface).

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  Weedflower

  Cynthia Kadohata

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  Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. The good part and the bad part. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being the only Japanese girl in her class. Even when the other kids tease her, she always has had her flowers and family to go home to.  That all changes after the horrific events of Pearl Harbor. Other Americans start to suspect that all Japanese people are spies for the emperor, even if, like Sumiko, they were born in the United States! As suspicions grow, Sumiko and her family find themselves being shipped to an internment camp in one of the hottest deserts in the United States. The vivid color of her previous life is gone forever, and now dust storms regularly choke the sky and seep into every crack of the military barrack that is her new "home."  Sumiko soon discovers that the camp is on an Indian reservation and that the Japanese are as unwanted there as they'd been at home. But then she meets a young Mohave boy who might just become her first real friend...if he can ever stop being angry about the fact that the internment camp is on his tribe's land.  With searing insight and clarity, Newbery Medal-winning author Cynthia Kadohata explores an important and painful topic through the eyes of a young girl who yearns to belong. Weedflower is the story of the rewards and challenges of a friendship across the racial divide, as well as the based-on-real-life story of how the meeting of Japanese Americans and Native Americans changed the future of both.

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  Ronan Boyle Into the Strangeplace

  Thomas Lennon

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  Detective Ronan Boyle’s To-Do List• Fight the Leprechaun Navy on their own turf• Deliver Crom Cruach, undead bog man, to Raghall, King of the Leprechauns• Reorder dog diapers (XL)• Follow Seamus McSheehy, Earth’s finest living dancer, into the Strangeplace and stop his evil scheme to become a god of Irish dance (time permitting)• DO NOT FALL IN LOVE with Captain de Valera, despite her vibe, self-confidence, and cool new haircut• PROVE PARENTS’ INNOCENCE, STOP LORD DESMOND DOOLEY, FIND A DECENT PLACE FOR LUNCH WITH VEGETARIAN OPTIONS (not in that exact order)• Get new shillelagh and beret for “hot leprechaun summer”• Pay down the 7803 euros in fees owed to the Special Unit of Tir na Nog• Maybe DO profess love to Captain de Valera? No—bury that down deep andlater write a sad series of plays about it • Rescue PIERRE THE FAR DARRIG! (If he’s even still alive?!)

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  Librarian's Night Before Christmas

  David R. Davis

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  Santa Claus spreads holiday cheer to a hard-working librarian on Christmas Eve in this humorous take on the children’s classic. Due to low staffing, a librarian must spend her Christmas Eve stacking the shelves at a library in desperate need of renovations. After the strain of a long night that has left her feeling “like Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol,” she is pleasantly surprised to see Santa and his six elves coming to her rescue in a red bookmobile.  In this delightful retelling of Clement C. Moore’s classic, Santa signs Newbery winners and starred Caldecotts and stocks the library shelves with Hawthorne, Steinbeck, Millay, and Hemingway. After reading to the children and drinking some hot chocolate, Santa puts his elves to work replacing the rugs, fixing leaks, and organizing gifts according to the Dewey decimal system. As he leaves, Santa pays overdue fees and booms, “Do one more good deed. Have a real merry Christmas—teach someone to read!” Praise for Librarian’s Night Before Christmas“Santa is appropriately jolly and the elves, exuberant. A library cat and mouse contribute to the antics.” —School Library Journal“This volume will definitely find a place in the hearts of librarians and library lovers.” —Review of Texas Books

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  Sister Friend

  Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

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  Assalamu Alaikum, Sister. Welcome.Ameena feels invisible. Ever since she arrived at her school a few months ago, kids look at her like she’s something strange. Is it because of the twists in her hair? Or her brown skin? Then, one day, there’s a new new kid in class. Ameena sees her. Sees her brownness. Sees her hijab. Sees her in ways that the other kids do not.Ameena wants to be her friend … but she doesn’t know how. She can’t seem to find the right words … until one day, when they find those words together.A moving celebration of friendship and sisterhood, Sister Friend shows the importance of being yourself and the joy of finding friends who see your true heart.

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  Firefly Summer

  Lorién Trover Hardy

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  Chester’s mom teaches him a song about fireflies. Learn the song along with Chester. One, two, three …

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