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Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass

Medina, Meg,


School Library Journal starred, April 2013. Horn Book Starred, March 2013. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, March 2013. Kirkus Starred, January 2013. Booklist, April 2013. Horn Book, November 2013. Teacher Librarian, February 2014. Publishers Weekly Annex, March 2013. Piddy Sanchez deals with bullying at her new school, and as the harassment escalates, she struggles to survive and to discover who she really is.
Date Published:2014

School Library Journal starred, April 2013. Horn Book Starred, March 2013. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, March 2013. Kirkus Starred, January 2013. Booklist, April 2013. Horn Book, November 2013. Teacher Librarian, February 2014. Publishers Weekly Annex, March 2013. Piddy Sanchez deals with bullying at her new school, and as the harassment escalates, she struggles to survive and to discover who she really is.

Date Published:2014

Naruto: Volume 55 : The great war begins /

Kishimoto, Masashi, 1974-,


Translated from the Japanese. "First published in Japan in 1999 by Shueisha Inc., Tokyo"--P. facing t.p. "This graphic novel contains material that was originally published in English in Shonen Jump #105-108"--P. facing t.p. "This book reads from right to left"--Cover p. [4]. Kabuto, Madara, and their horde of reanimated dead ninja skirmish with Naruto and the Allied Shinobi Forces on Turtle Island.
Date Published:2012

Translated from the Japanese. "First published in Japan in 1999 by Shueisha Inc., Tokyo"--P. facing t.p. "This graphic novel contains material that was originally published in English in Shonen Jump #105-108"--P. facing t.p. "This book reads from right to left"--Cover p. [4]. Kabuto, Madara, and their horde of reanimated dead ninja skirmish with Naruto and the Allied Shinobi Forces on Turtle Island.

Date Published:2012

Material world : a global family portrait

Mann, Charles,



Date Published:1994

Clap when you land

Acevedo, Elizabeth,


School Library Journal starred, May 2020. Horn Book Starred, July 2020. Pub Weekly, April 2020. Kirkus Starred, March 2020. Booklist, April 2020. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), May 2020. Sixteen-year-olds Camino Rios, of the Dominican Republic, and Yahaira Rios, of New York City, are devastated to learn of their father's death in a plane crash and stunned to learn of each other's existence. A novel in verse told in two voices.
Date Published:2020

School Library Journal starred, May 2020. Horn Book Starred, July 2020. Pub Weekly, April 2020. Kirkus Starred, March 2020. Booklist, April 2020. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), May 2020. Sixteen-year-olds Camino Rios, of the Dominican Republic, and Yahaira Rios, of New York City, are devastated to learn of their father's death in a plane crash and stunned to learn of each other's existence. A novel in verse told in two voices.

Date Published:2020

Tokyo ghoul:re

Ishida, Sui,


Translation of: Tōkyō gūru ri. Book reads from right to left in the traditional Japanese format. "Parental advisory: Tokyo Ghoul:RE is rated T+ for Older Teen and is recommended for ages 16 and up. This v. contains violence and gore"--Colophon. "The Commission of Counter Ghoul is the only organization fighting the Ghoul menace, and they will use every tool at their disposal to protect humanity from its ultimate predator. Their newest weapon in this hidden war is an experimental procedure that implants human investigators with a Ghoul's Kagune . . . giving them Ghoul powers and abilities. But both the procedure and the newly formed Qs Squad are untested. Will they become heroes...or monsters?! The Qs Squad once again proves its worth by going undercover to collect vital Ghoul information, allowing the CCG to finally move forward with a massive eradication campaign. But this strike pushes the Qs to their limits, bringing all their weaknesses to the forefront. And Haise is the hardest hit when his hidden past rushes forth to impact his future!"--Back cover.
Date Published:2018

Translation of: Tōkyō gūru ri. Book reads from right to left in the traditional Japanese format. "Parental advisory: Tokyo Ghoul:RE is rated T+ for Older Teen and is recommended for ages 16 and up. This v. contains violence and gore"--Colophon. "The Commission of Counter Ghoul is the only organization fighting the Ghoul menace, and they will use every tool at their disposal to protect humanity from its ultimate predator. Their newest weapon in this hidden war is an experimental procedure that implants human investigators with a Ghoul's Kagune . . . giving them Ghoul powers and abilities. But both the procedure and the newly formed Qs Squad are untested. Will they become heroes...or monsters?! The Qs Squad once again proves its worth by going undercover to collect vital Ghoul information, allowing the CCG to finally move forward with a massive eradication campaign. But this strike pushes the Qs to their limits, bringing all their weaknesses to the forefront. And Haise is the hardest hit when his hidden past rushes forth to impact his future!"--Back cover.

Date Published:2018

Hell followed with us

White, Andrew Joseph,


Booklist starred, April 2022. Pub Weekly, May 2022. Kirkus Starred, April 2022. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), May 2022. "Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him . . . Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC's leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot . . . Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens . . . Benji accepts Nick's terms . . . until he discovers the ALC's mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2022

Booklist starred, April 2022. Pub Weekly, May 2022. Kirkus Starred, April 2022. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), May 2022. "Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him . . . Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC's leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot . . . Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens . . . Benji accepts Nick's terms . . . until he discovers the ALC's mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2022

Psycho USA : famous American killers you never heard of /

Schechter, Harold,


Fiends of the early Republic, 1782-1826 -- William Beadle, family annihilator -- Domestic slaughter then and now -- Samuel Green, prodigy of crime -- Jesse Strang and the Cherry Hill murder -- Hawthorne and Strang -- Antebellum maniacs, 1840-1860 -- Robert McConaghy, "the inhuman butcher" -- The Mohawk massacre -- Peter Robinson, the "tell-tale heart" killer -- Another tell-tale murder -- Polly Bodine, "The witch of Staten Island" -- "The worst woman on earth" -- Dr. Valorous P. Coolidge, the Waterville poisoner -- "The ballad of Edward Matthews" -- Henrietta Robinson, "The veiled murderess" -- The age of arsenic -- Return J. M. Ward, "The triple murderer" -- Burned alive -- Francis Gouldy, pre-civil war mass murderer -- The Saugerties bard, minstrel of mayhem -- Albert Hicks, "The worst man who ever lived" -- Hicks the priate -- The resurrection of Albert Hicks -- Post-civil war monsters, 1866-1880 -- Martha Grinder, Lydia Sherman, and Sarah Jane Robinson: the -- "American borgias -- "Poison and pedophilia" -- Anton Probst, "The monster in the shape of a man" -- The eyes of Anton Probst -- Edward H. Ruloff, "The man of two lives" -- "His side of the story" -- Louis Wagner, the smutty nose butcher -- "A memorable murder" -- Franklin Evans, the Northwood murderer -- "Georgianna lovering, or the Northwood tragedy" -- "Was it a ghost?" -- Joseph Lapage, "The French monster" -- The Langmaid memorial -- The mystery of serial murder -- Charles Freeman and the "pocasset horror" -- The woman who killed her child for God -- Emeline Meaker, "the Virago of Vermont" -- Mad Dorothy Talbot -- Hangings public and private -- Turn-of-the-century psychos, 1892-1896 -- Carlyle Harris, the libertine -- Dr. Robert Buchanan, copycat -- Harry Hayward, "the Minneapolis Svengali" -- "The fatal ride" -- A hypnotic villain -- Scott Jackson, who slaughtered poor Pearl Bryan -- Cal Crim, "sleuth-hound of the law" -- Murdered-girl ballads -- A year of horror, 1927 -- Andrew P. Kehoe, "the world's worst demon" -- The Wall Street bombing -- Ada Leboeuf, "the siren of the swamps" -- "Rules for murderesses" -- William Edward Hickman, "the Fox" -- Cashing in -- Demons of the Depression -- Pearl O'Loughlin, wicked stepmother -- Can Ground Glass kill? -- Harry powers, "the bluebeard of quiet dell" -- "The crime atquiet dell" (version one) -- "The crime at quiet dell" (version two) -- "The night of the hunter" -- Bluebeard : fact and fantasy -- Robert Edwards, the "American tragedy killer" -- Erased -- Robert Irwin, "the mad sculptor" -- Soldier, sailor, serial killer, 1941-1961 -- Eddie Leonski, "the brown-out strangler" -- No rest for the wicked -- Julian Harvey and the Bluebelle's last voyage -- Antone Costa, the "Cape Cod vampire" -- Final words -- Acknowledgments -- Index. Publisher's Weekly, May 2012. Profiles little-known American murderers, including Robert Irwin, Peter Robinson, Edward H. Ruloff, and Pearl O'Loughlin.
Date Published:2012

Fiends of the early Republic, 1782-1826 -- William Beadle, family annihilator -- Domestic slaughter then and now -- Samuel Green, prodigy of crime -- Jesse Strang and the Cherry Hill murder -- Hawthorne and Strang -- Antebellum maniacs, 1840-1860 -- Robert McConaghy, "the inhuman butcher" -- The Mohawk massacre -- Peter Robinson, the "tell-tale heart" killer -- Another tell-tale murder -- Polly Bodine, "The witch of Staten Island" -- "The worst woman on earth" -- Dr. Valorous P. Coolidge, the Waterville poisoner -- "The ballad of Edward Matthews" -- Henrietta Robinson, "The veiled murderess" -- The age of arsenic -- Return J. M. Ward, "The triple murderer" -- Burned alive -- Francis Gouldy, pre-civil war mass murderer -- The Saugerties bard, minstrel of mayhem -- Albert Hicks, "The worst man who ever lived" -- Hicks the priate -- The resurrection of Albert Hicks -- Post-civil war monsters, 1866-1880 -- Martha Grinder, Lydia Sherman, and Sarah Jane Robinson: the -- "American borgias -- "Poison and pedophilia" -- Anton Probst, "The monster in the shape of a man" -- The eyes of Anton Probst -- Edward H. Ruloff, "The man of two lives" -- "His side of the story" -- Louis Wagner, the smutty nose butcher -- "A memorable murder" -- Franklin Evans, the Northwood murderer -- "Georgianna lovering, or the Northwood tragedy" -- "Was it a ghost?" -- Joseph Lapage, "The French monster" -- The Langmaid memorial -- The mystery of serial murder -- Charles Freeman and the "pocasset horror" -- The woman who killed her child for God -- Emeline Meaker, "the Virago of Vermont" -- Mad Dorothy Talbot -- Hangings public and private -- Turn-of-the-century psychos, 1892-1896 -- Carlyle Harris, the libertine -- Dr. Robert Buchanan, copycat -- Harry Hayward, "the Minneapolis Svengali" -- "The fatal ride" -- A hypnotic villain -- Scott Jackson, who slaughtered poor Pearl Bryan -- Cal Crim, "sleuth-hound of the law" -- Murdered-girl ballads -- A year of horror, 1927 -- Andrew P. Kehoe, "the world's worst demon" -- The Wall Street bombing -- Ada Leboeuf, "the siren of the swamps" -- "Rules for murderesses" -- William Edward Hickman, "the Fox" -- Cashing in -- Demons of the Depression -- Pearl O'Loughlin, wicked stepmother -- Can Ground Glass kill? -- Harry powers, "the bluebeard of quiet dell" -- "The crime atquiet dell" (version one) -- "The crime at quiet dell" (version two) -- "The night of the hunter" -- Bluebeard : fact and fantasy -- Robert Edwards, the "American tragedy killer" -- Erased -- Robert Irwin, "the mad sculptor" -- Soldier, sailor, serial killer, 1941-1961 -- Eddie Leonski, "the brown-out strangler" -- No rest for the wicked -- Julian Harvey and the Bluebelle's last voyage -- Antone Costa, the "Cape Cod vampire" -- Final words -- Acknowledgments -- Index. Publisher's Weekly, May 2012. Profiles little-known American murderers, including Robert Irwin, Peter Robinson, Edward H. Ruloff, and Pearl O'Loughlin.

Date Published:2012

Vegetarianism

Traugh, Susan M.,


Going greens -- Growing trend -- Why turn to vegetarianism? -- Nutritionally speaking -- Cultural exchange -- Getting started. Explores why some people choose a vegetarian lifestyle, the different types of vegetarian diets, and vegetarianism around the world. Looks at the steps to becoming a vegetarian and discusses nutrition for vegetarians -- how this type of diet fits in the recommended food pyramid, and how a vegetarian can make good food selections.
Date Published:2011

Going greens -- Growing trend -- Why turn to vegetarianism? -- Nutritionally speaking -- Cultural exchange -- Getting started. Explores why some people choose a vegetarian lifestyle, the different types of vegetarian diets, and vegetarianism around the world. Looks at the steps to becoming a vegetarian and discusses nutrition for vegetarians -- how this type of diet fits in the recommended food pyramid, and how a vegetarian can make good food selections.

Date Published:2011

W.E.B. Du Bois : the fight for civil rights /

Randolph, Ryan P.,


An active leader and leading intellectual -- Childhood in Great Barrington -- To college and the reality of the South -- Higher learning and teaching -- The Souls of Black Folk -- Booker T. Washington and the Niagara Conference -- The NAACP and the crisis years -- Depression and action -- A communist in the Cold War -- Final years in Ghana. Presents a short biography of W.E.B. Du Bois and his contribution to the civil rights of African-Americans during the early part of the twentieth century, and describes his childhood in Massachusetts, his education, involvement with the NAACP, and his influence upon later civil rights leaders.
Date Published:2005

An active leader and leading intellectual -- Childhood in Great Barrington -- To college and the reality of the South -- Higher learning and teaching -- The Souls of Black Folk -- Booker T. Washington and the Niagara Conference -- The NAACP and the crisis years -- Depression and action -- A communist in the Cold War -- Final years in Ghana. Presents a short biography of W.E.B. Du Bois and his contribution to the civil rights of African-Americans during the early part of the twentieth century, and describes his childhood in Massachusetts, his education, involvement with the NAACP, and his influence upon later civil rights leaders.

Date Published:2005

Nine stories

Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-,


A perfect day for Bananafish -- Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut -- Just before the war with the Eskimos -- The laughing man -- Down at the dinghy -- For Esme, with love and squalor -- Pretty mouth and green my eyes -- De Daumier-Smith's blue period -- Teddy. Wilson's Senior High School, November 1997. Wilson's Fiction, January 1996. Presents nine short stories by twentieth-century American author J. D. Salinger, most shadowed by the legacy of war.
Date Published:1981

A perfect day for Bananafish -- Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut -- Just before the war with the Eskimos -- The laughing man -- Down at the dinghy -- For Esme, with love and squalor -- Pretty mouth and green my eyes -- De Daumier-Smith's blue period -- Teddy. Wilson's Senior High School, November 1997. Wilson's Fiction, January 1996. Presents nine short stories by twentieth-century American author J. D. Salinger, most shadowed by the legacy of war.

Date Published:1981

Too many tamales

Soto, Gary,


BL, BCCB, HG, SLJ. Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a Christmas family get-together. Panic ensues when hours later, she realizes the ring is missing.
Date Published:1993

Bullying : deal with it before push comes to shove /

Slavens, Elaine,


Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2004. Resource Links, February 2004. Provides information about bullying, explaining what it is, featuring examples of different types of bullying, and offering advice on how to best deal with bullies. Includes quizzes and resources.
Date Published:2003

The apple pie tree

Hall, Zoe.,


This Scholastic edition is only available for distribution through the school market. Describes an apple tree as it grows leaves and flowers and then produces its fruit, while in its branches robins make a nest, lay eggs, and raise a family. Includes a recipe for apple pie.
Date Published:1996

Voice for the voiceless : over seven decades of struggle with China for my land and my people /


Kirkus Starred, April 2025. "In this unique book offering personal, spiritual, and historical reflections--some never shared before--His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his struggle with China to save Tibet and its people for nearly seventy-five years"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2025

Staying fat for Sarah Byrnes

Crutcher, Chris,


The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help.
Date Published:2018

Omaha & Douglas County : a panoramic history /

Dustin, Dorothy Devereux, 1924-,


Includes index.
Date Published:1980

The pinata maker : El piTatero /

Ancona, George,


English and Spanish. Describes how Don Ricardo, a craftsman from Ejutla de Crespo in southern Mexico, makes piTatas for all the village birthday parties and other fiestas.
Date Published:1994

Looking at glass through the ages

Koscielniak, Bruce,



Date Published:2006

The space shuttle Challenger disaster in American history

Lieurance, Suzanne,



Date Published:2001

The Prohibition Era in American history

Lieurance, Suzanne,


Horn Book, October 2003. Explores the impact on American society and history of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act, which prohibited any use of alcohol except for religious or medicinal purposes.
Date Published:2003