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2019., Juvenile, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Eleven-year-old Makeda dreams of meeting her African American mother, while coping with serious problems in her white adopted family, a cross-country move, and being homeschooled.
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2019., Juvenile, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: REALISTIC F LOC Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Eleven-year-old Makeda dreams of meeting her African American mother, while coping with serious problems in her white adopted family, a cross-country move, and being homeschooled.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: FIC LOCKINGTON Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic fiction Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: "I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark." Makeda June Kirkland is eleven years old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big sister are white, and even though she loves her family very much, Makeda often feels left out. When Makeda's family moves from Maryland to New Mexico, she leaves behind her best friend, Lena— the only other adopted black girl she knows— for a new life. In New Mexico, everything is different. At home, Makeda’s sister is too cool to hang out with her anymore and at school, she can’t seem to find one real friend.Through it all, Makeda can’t help but wonder: What would it feel like to grow up with a family that looks like me?Through singing, dreaming, and writing secret messages back and forth with Lena, Makeda might just carve a small place for herself in the world.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Eleven-year-old Makeda dreams of meeting her African American mother, while coping with serious problems in her white adopted family, a cross-country move, and being homeschooled.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Eleven-year-old Makeda June Kirkland struggles to find her place in her new school after her family moves from Maryland to New Mexico. Makeda, who is of African American decent and has been adopted into an all white family, finds herself wondering how life might be different if she were part of a family that looks like her. In the midst of it all, she must deal with her mother's recent mental health diagnosis and mood swings that come with her being bipolar.
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2023., Adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: TEEN FIC LOC Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When sixteen-year-old Sadie, a Black bisexual recluse, develops agoraphobia the summer before her junior year, she relies on her best friend, family, and therapist to overcome her fears.
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2023., Adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC LOC Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When sixteen-year-old Sadie, a Black bisexual recluse, develops agoraphobia the summer before her junior year, she relies on her best friend, family, and therapist to overcome her fears.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: TEEN FIC LOC Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "While twelve-year-old Andi has suffered from anxiety attacks ever since her mother died ten months ago, Zora starting hurting herself whenever she feels out of control; they are both at Camp Harmony, an elite summer music camp, trying to deal with their problems and also the stress of competition--but as the summer passes they find themselves increasingly drawn to each other, and maybe not just as friends"--OCLC.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: REALISTIC F LOC Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Andi feels stranded after the loss of her mother, the artist who swept color onto Andi's blank canvas. When she is accepted to a music camp, Andi finds herself struggling to play her trumpet like she used to before her whole world changed. Meanwhile, Zora, a returning camper, is exhausted trying to please her parents, who are determined to make her a flute prodigy, even though she secretly has a dancer's heart. At Harmony Music Camp, Zora and Andi are the only two Black girls in a sea of mostly white faces. In kayaks and creaky cabins, the two begin to connect, unraveling their loss, insecurities, and hopes for the future. And as they struggle to figure out who they really are, they may just come to realize who they really need: each other.
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[2021]., Pre-adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Featuring contributions from Eric Bell, Katherine Locke and A.J. Sass, this first LGBTQA+ anthology for middle-grade readers presents stories of queer fantasy, historical and contemporary stories for every letter of the acronym.
