Children & Young Adults Fiction - People & Places

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The Mystery of the Missing Lion: A Pr...

Alexander McCall Smith

A detective in the wild.  Young Precious gets a very special treat.  She gets a trip to visit her Aunty Bee at a safari camp.  While there she makes a new friend, a boy named Khumo, and meets an actor-lion named Teddy, who is starr...

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Published: Oct 2014

Bronze and Sunflower

Cao Wenxuan

A beautifully written, timeless tale by Cao Wenxuan, best-selling Chinese author and 2016 recipient of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award.Sunflower is an only child, and when her father is sent to the rural Cadre School, sh...

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Published: May 2019

We're Different, We're the Same (Pict...

Bobbi Jane Kates

Illustrated in full color. The colorful characters from Sesame Street teachyoung children about racial harmony. Muppets, monsters, and humans comparenoses, hair, and skin and realize how different we all are. But as they lookfurther, ...

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Published: Apr 1996

I Love My Hair!

Natasha Anastasia Tarpley

No matter how gently Mama pulls as she combs Keyana's hair, it still hurts. Keyana doesn't feel lucky to have such a head of hair, but Mama tells her she is because she can wear it any way she chooses.

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Published: Sep 2001

The Game of Silence

Louise Erdrich

Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior.It is 1850, and the lives of the Ojibwe have returned to a familiar rhythm: they build their birchbark houses in the s...

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Published: Jun 2006

Josefina: Sunlight and Shadows (Ameri...

Valerie Tripp

A storm and flash flood hit the ranch hard, and many animals are lost. But Josefina and her sisters are determined to save the family business. Their aunt, T'a Dolores, wants to try some bold new ideas. Josefina likes learning to weav...

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Published: Feb 2020

Julie

Jean Craighead George

Julie's decision to return home to her people is not an easy one. But after many months in the wilderness, living in harmony with the wolves that saved her life, she knows the time has come. Julie is not prepared, however, for all th...

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Published: Feb 1996
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