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• Barbed Wire Baseball

  Moss, Marissa

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  "As a boy, Kenichi “Zeni” Zenimura dreams of playing professional baseball, but everyone tells him he is too small. Yet he grows up to be a successful player, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig! When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unspoken

  a Story From the Underground Railroad

  Cole, Henry, 1955-

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  "A young girl's courage is tested in this haunting, wordless story. When a farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding in the barn, she is at once startled and frightened. But the stranger's fearful eyes weigh upon her conscience, and she must make a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation

  Sherman, Patrice

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  "Ben, a young slave, uses every chance he gets to teach himself to read, practicing with the words he sees on street signs and in shop windows and even in cast-off newspapers he finds in the gutter. But after the Civil War breaks out, his master…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Diary of a Young Girl

  the Definitive Edition

  Frank, Anne, 1929-1945

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• Yummy

  the Last Days of a Southside Shorty

  Neri, Greg

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  "Eleven-year-old Roger is trying to make sense of his classmate Robert "Yummy" Sandifer's death, but first he has to make sense of Yummy's life. Yummy could be as tough as a pit bull sometimes. Other times he was as sweet as the sugary treats he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maus

  a Survivor's Tale

  Spiegelman, Art,

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  "Experience the powerful and emotional story of a survivor in Maus I. Written in graphic novel format, this gripping tale explores the Holocaust through the eyes of one man and his family. With its unique storytelling and stunning artwork, Maus I…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Time to Dance

  Venkatraman, Padma, 1969-

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  "Padma Venkatraman’s inspiring story of a young girl’s struggle to regain her passion and find a new peace is told lyrically through verse that captures the beauty and mystery of India and the ancient Bharatanatyam dance form. This is a stunning…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• March. Book One

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020

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  "Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Quest for Eternal Sunshine

  a Holocaust Survivor's Journey From Darkness to Light

  Rubin, Mendek

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  "Born in Poland in 1924, Mendek grew up surrounded by extreme anti-Semitism. Armed with an ingenious mind, he survived three horrific years in Nazi slave-labor concentration camps while virtually his entire family was murdered in Auschwitz. After…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The World That We Knew

  Hoffman, Alice,

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  "This instant New York Times bestseller and longlist recipient for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal takes place in 1941, during humanity’s darkest hour, and follows three unforgettable young women who must act with courage and love to survive."

• Night

  Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016

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  "Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, Night, is a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, presents this…Read moreRead more of this annotation