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Staff Picks July/August 2017
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Niño Wrestles the World
by Yuyi Morales
Believing himself capable of fending off the most monstrous opponents, underpants-clad Lucha Libre champion Niño is challenged by a no-holds-barred wrestling match that truly tests his skills when his younger sisters wake up from their naps.
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Walk in the Clouds
A GI, returned from WWII, offers to pose as the husband of an unmarried pregnant woman when she returns home to face her father.
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Gabi, A Girl in Pieces
by Isabel Quintero
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
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Pushing Daisies
Ned can bring the dead to life briefly when he touches them, and must touch them again to reverse the spell; along with a private eye, he uses his gift to help solve crimes and brings his childhood sweetheart back to life permanently.
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Milk and Honey
by Rupi Kaur
This collection presents poems that deal with the bitter aspects of love, loss, abuse, violence, and trauma, and celebrates the unstoppable power of grace, healing, and feminine strength.
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Alanna: The First Adventure
by Tamora Pierce
Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, a learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure.
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How to Train Your Dragon
Hiccup, a young Viking, aspires to become a dragon slayer but upon capturing a dragon he cannot kill it and befriends the dragon instead.
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Kimi Ni Todoke (From Me to You) Vol. 1
by Karuho Shiina
As a shy, misunderstood teen, Sadako is thrown when the most popular boy in school befriends her and she becomes the object of many other girls' frustrations.
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Under the Same Moon
After his grandmother dies, a Mexican boy attempts to cross the border to the United States to reunite with his mother who has been working as a maid.
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Graceling
by Kristin Cashore
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
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Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E Butler
The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman with the hereditary train of "hyperempathy"--which causes her to feel others' pain as her own--sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown.
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Mystery Train
Set in Memphis and inspired by the ghost of Elvis, the stories of a teenage couple from Japan traveling to Graceland, an Italian beauty escorting her husband's body home, and a crazy unemployed misfit named Elvis all weave together.
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A Girl Named Disaster
by Nancy Farmer
While journeying to Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
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20 Feet from Stardom
Shares the stories of various vocalists who have served as backup singers for some of the world's most well-known musicians and songs.
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My Name is Asher Lev
by Chaim Potok
The National Jewish Book Award-winning novel records the anguish, dreams, and triumphs of Asher Lev, a talented young painter raised in a cloistered Hasidic community in Brooklyn, as he struggles to resolve his gift of art with his religious background only to emerge into the great world of art, rejecting all else.
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My Sunshine
by Catherine Anderson
Her ability to use language impaired by a head injury, Laura Townsend builds a new life for herself working at an animal clinic owned by veterinarian Isaiah Coulter, who finds himself falling in love with her.
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Cars
A young stock car named Lightning on his way to a big race is kept in town to repair damage he caused and he begins to see the townsfolk, various motor vehicles, as family and friends.
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Donovan's Reef
Two ex-Navy buddies are living a life of leisure on a South Pacific island until they are interrupted by a prim Bostonian in search of her father.
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Agnes & the Hitman
by Jennifer Crusie
Rescued during a break-in by an unlikely hit man who has been directed by the mob to protect her, food writer Cranky Agnes finds her situation further complicated by a missing cache of money that becomes a key factor in a Southern mafia wedding.
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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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