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      By Nietfeld, Emi
       2022., Adolescent, Penguin Press Call No: HI-INT B NIE    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: "A brilliant, funny, generation-defining memoir about the double bind of crafting perfect adversity narratives for highly selective institutions, while fumbling through the far murkier reality of actual life in foster care and inpatient mental health treatment. As a child, Emi Nietfeld was caught between a hoarder mother who got her put on antipsychotic medication, but was also the only person to believe she was exceptional, and a state system exemplified by a foster mom who tried to ban her art history flash cards because they had naked pictures (of Michelangelo's David). Even after wresting free of grim inpatient mental health institutions and getting into a prestigious boarding school, Emi scrambled for places to sleep during breaks. Realizing that her path to true independence lay in reinventing herself as a talented overcomer deserving of a full ride, she became obsessed with college admissions. While taking on the sad challenge of presenting herself as resilient to gain authorities' approval, Emi lived the untidy version of actual adversity at the same time--literally drafting her Common App statement while living out of her '92 Corolla. She found herself 'trading my past for my future' in college admissions essays and scholarship applications, in an extreme example of the immense pressure on teenagers from all backgrounds to build the foundations of their entire lives. Emi's story is a harsh illumination of the near-impossible challenge set by societal expectations of coming from nothing, the brokenness of our child welfare system, and the reality that congratulatory letters from top schools couldn't keep her safe--as she found when she was raped while on a trip following her Harvard admission. Though Emi learns that entering the Ivy League, working in Big Tech, and living in a fancy apartment doesn't mean her life turns into gold, her reflections on her unlikely history, and her journey in confronting trauma and injustice, hold powerful lessons. Candid and frequently harrowing, with a ribbon of dark humor, Acceptance is a stunning human story and an invaluable view of the actual cost of upward mobility"--Provided by the publisher.
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      By Friedman, Laurie B., 1964-  Amit, Ofrah
       c2008., Pre-adolescent, Carolrhoda Books Call No: B    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: A prisoner in a Nazi labor camp, Herman soon loses the will to go on. Then a young girl appears on the other side of the barbed-wire fence--an angel bearing food and hope. Based on a true story.
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      By Friedman, Laurie B., 1964-  °Amit, °Ofrah
       c2008, Pre-adolescent, Carolrhoda Books Call No: B    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: A prisoner in a Nazi labor camp, Herman soon loses the will to go on. Then a young girl appears on the other side of the barbed-wire fence--an angel bearing food and hope. Based on a true story.
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      By Friedman, Laurie B., 1964-  °Amit, °Ofrah
       c2008., Juvenile, Carolrhoda Books Call No: B    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Story of a young girl who brought food to a young boy in a concentration camp during the hOlocaust and years later in New York they meet and he married his angel.
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      By Sawyer, Kem Knapp
       2004., Juvenile, DK Pub. Call No: B   Edition: 1st American ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: DK biographySummary Note: Presents a biography of Anne Frank, and includes over one hundred photographs and artifacts of her life, her family, friends, their two years in hiding, as well as their arrest, transport to the concentration camps, and separation. Includes time line and index.
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      By Epstein, Rachel S
       c1997, Pre-adolescent, F. Watts Call No: B    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Series Title: A first bookSummary Note: Traces the life of a Jewish girl who chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.
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      By Lester, Helen
       1997., Primary, Houghton Mifflin Call No: B    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Children's author Helen Lester describes her life from age three to adulthood and discusses how she writes.
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      By Wheeler, Jill C., 1964-
       c2009., Primary, Abdo Call No: B AVI    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Series Title: Checkerboard biography library.Summary Note: A brief biography of the known writer Avi that describes his childhood, eduction, beginnings in writing, professional accomplishments, and other related topics.
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      By Thompson, Lauren  Estrin, James
       2007., Juvenile, Feiwel and Friends Call No: 618.92 836   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the true story of how five little girls who suffer from cerebral palsy had their dreams come true by becoming ballerinas.