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The Kissing Hand
by Audrey Penn
Dreading the thought of starting school, little Chester Raccoon is reassured by his mother's kiss on his hand that helps him feel brave as he embarks on a new experience.
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Piñero
Benjamin Bratt (Law & Order) delivers a masterfully vivid portrayal of the startlingly original Latino icon, poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero. After doing hard time in prison for drug-dealing and petty theft, Piñęro turned his prison experiences into the Tony Awardʼ-winning play Short Eyes. Then, as a founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in Manhattan's Lower East Side, Piñęro crafted an influential style of rhythmic urban poetry that is widely recognized as a precursor to rap and hip-hop.
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The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
In 1969 Kerala, India, Rahel and her twin brother, Estha, struggle to forge a childhood for themselves amid the destruction of their family life, as they discover that the entire world can be transformed in a single moment. Winner of the Booker Prize.
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Land Before Time
A young brontosaurus is separated from his family and sets off to find the legendary Great Valley, meeting other young dinosaurs along the way.
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
by Mychal Denzel Smith
A prominent journalist and contributing writer to The Nation magazine describes his education and the experiences of black masculinity against a backdrop of the Obama administration, the death of Trayvon Martin, the career of LeBron James and other pivotal influences that have shaped race relations in today's America.
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
All is going well for rich, reclusive Mr Norell, who has regained some of the power of England's magicians from the past, until a rival magician, Jonathan Strange, appears and becomes Mr Norrell's pupil, in a witty fantasy set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century England.
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Supernatural
Sam and Dean Winchester seek out the person or force responsible for their mother's death and their father's disappearance while investigating strange occurrences across America
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Ada Twist, Scientist
by Andrea Beaty
The best-selling creators of Iggy Peck, Architect and Rosie Revere, Engineer present the story of a little girl who, in the spirit of such visionaries as Marie Curie and Ada Lovelace, diligently applies her fledgling scientific prowess to advance her understanding of the world.
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North & South
A young woman is forced leave behind her priviliged rural lifestyle when her father moves the family to a northern working class town.
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The Future of Us
by Jay Asher and Carolyn Macker
Receiving her first computer and an America Online CD-ROM in 1996, student Emma and her best friend, Josh, log on and discover themselves on Facebook, 15 years in the future, and learn astonishing things about their adult selves. Co-written by the award-winning author of Tangled and the best-selling author of Thirteen Reasons Why.
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Albert Nobbs
A woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in nineteenth-century Ireland finds her livelihood threatened when a painter arrives at the hotel where she works and discovers her secret.
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The Giving Tree
by Shel Silverstein
A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return.
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Big
After a twelve-year-old boy's wish comes true when he asks a mechanical carnival genie to make him older, he manages to land a job at a toy company where he experiences the complications of being an adult.
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Killing Floor
by Lee Child
Ex-MP Jack Reacher goes into action to find his brother's killers after a series of brutal crimes terrorize tiny Margrave, Georgia, only to uncover the dark and deadly conspiracy concealed behind the town's peaceful facade.
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Bucket List
In The Bucket List cancer doesn't discriminate in its choice of victims. It's equally eager in its attacks on kindly sage of a mechanic Carter Chambers (Freeman) and mean-spirited millionaire Edward Cole (Nicholson). When the unlikely pair shares a room at a hospital they learn that they both have less than a year to live as a result of the deadly disease. Inspired by the words of a college professor Carter begins to make a bucket list of things he wants to accomplish before he dies. With Edward's limitless funds at their disposal the men embark on an adventure that takes them from Egypt to France to Hong Kong crossing items off their list as death grows closer.
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Moo
by Sharon Creech
A lyrical account of 12-year-old Reena's move to rural Maine follows her efforts to adjust to a new environment while unexpectedly bonding with an ornery cow. By the Newbery Medal-winning author of Walk Two Moons.
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Gran Torino
A Korean war veteran and retired automaker finds himself defending his Hmong immigrant neighbors against a local gang, and sets out to reform their teenage son, who tried to steal his prized Gran Torino.
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So You Want to Be a Wizard
by Diane Duane
Thirteen-year-old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she won't fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry which guides her into another dimension.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Yolo County Library 226 Buckeye St. Woodland, California 95695 530-666-8005
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