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Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When you're born a girl, some parts of the world are kinder places to grow up in than others. Meet Kaneila, Jade, Mahnoosh, Makena and Luisa. They are five girls in five different countries whose lives are overshadowed by violence and injustice, just because they are female. These girls navigate the challenges and horrors of period poverty, female genital mutilation, lack of access to education, body shaming and femicide. The stories are heartbreaking...
2) Nacer niña
Author
Publisher
Editorial Juventud
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Según el país de nacimiento, nacer niña no ofrece las mismas oportunidades... Descubre la vida de cinco muchachas del mundo: Kaneila, Jade Mahnoosh, Makena y Luisa. Las injusticias y la violencia pesan sobre su vida cotidiana. A su alrededor, personas comprometidas se movilizan en pro de la igualidad y aportan esperanza."--
4) Outcasts
Author
Series
Freeman trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Dylan and Tristan have finally found their place in the world of the living, guarding it from any wraiths that manage to break through from the wasteland. But it seems that in escaping death, they have upset a careful balance--more and more wraiths are appearing in their world, causing destruction. The wasteland itself is changing as well, with safe houses becoming less safe and wraiths acting more human than ever. When two innocent souls are taken...
5) Trespassers
Author
Series
Freeman trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Love freed Dylan, who should have died in a train crash, and Tristan, who should still be an immortal ferryman, from the afterlife, but defying the laws of the supernatural world comes with a price.
7) Ferryman
Author
Series
Freeman trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Dylan has escaped a horrific train crash unscathed. Except she hasn't. The bleak landscape around her isn't Scotland. It's a wasteland haunted by wraiths searching for human souls. And the stranger waiting for her isn't an ordinary boy. Tristan is a Ferryman, tasked with transporting her soul safely to the afterlife, a journey he's made a thousand times before. Except this time, something's different. Torn between love and destiny, Dylan realises...
Author
Publisher
Herbert & Joy Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Three weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when the world was afraid to get on an airplane, much less a plane to New York City, one in every 3,000 Oregonians--1,000 in all--took 62 flights to show the terrorists they didn't win and to boost the tanking New York economy ... The Flight for Freedom is a little-known story of Americans at their best, showing up for their fellow Americans in a time of tragedy."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the creative, freewheeling, darkly humorous, and deeply resilient society that is contemporary Ukraine. In this timely and original history, a bestseller in Ukraine, the historian Yaroslav Hrytsak tells the sweeping story of his nation through a meticulous examination of the major events, conflicts, and developments that have shaped it over the course of centuries. Ukraine is essential reading...
Author
Publisher
New Friday , of Lev Gleason
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Zumrat Dawut is a mother of three in the Xinjiang autonomous region in China, who was arrested and sent to a detention facility for simply being a Muslim. There, she endured brutal living conditions, torture, interrogations, anti-Muslim propaganda, and sterilization. But that was just the beginning of Zumrat?s troubles, who with her husband would soon hatch a plan to escape to America" --back cover.