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-- One hundrend and eight stitches[2022]., Texas Tech University Press Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Texas sports heroes.Summary Note: Provides a coming-of-age memoir describing the author's experience growing up in Texas with family members involved in major and minor league baseball. Reflects on her own love of the sport, and how it shaped her life. Includes black-and-white photographs.
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[2014], Primary, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: [E] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Presents a picture book that captures the different responses of slaves working on a Texas plantation when they hear that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and that they are free. Includes backmatter providing historical information on African American Emancipation Day observed June 19th.
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[2014], Primary, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: [E] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a picture book that captures the different responses of slaves working on a Texas plantation when they hear that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and that they are free. Includes backmatter providing historical information on African American Emancipation Day observed June 19th.
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[2014]., Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. Call No: Young Adult FIC MCC Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and soon finds herself witih her mother and baby brother in Mexico.
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[2020]., Adolescent, Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: ROMANCE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Carli and Rex have an immediate connection, an understanding that must mean first love, but family secrets, disappointments--and basketball, which holds center stage in both their lives--all create complications"--Provided by publisher.
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[2020]., Adolescent, Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: TEEN FIC TAM Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Carli and Rex have an immediate connection, an understanding that must mean first love, but family secrets, disappointments--and basketball, which holds center stage in both their lives--all create complications"--Provided by publisher.
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[2020]., Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: ROMANCE F TAM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Carli and Rex have an immediate connection, an understanding that must mean first love, but family secrets, disappointments--and basketball, which holds center stage in both their lives--all create complications"--Provided by the publisher.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Henry Holt and Company Call No: FIC HOL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 2001, seventh-grader Rylee Wilson and new student Joe, whose father was a New York City first responder on 9/11, decide to find Zachary Beaver and reunite him with Rylee's father, Toby.
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2021., Juvenile, Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company Call No: Fic Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Decades after Toby's life-changing summer with Zachary Beaver, Toby's daughter Rylee is at a crossroads--her best friend, Twig, has started pushing her away just as Joe, a kid from New York, settles into their small town. The two unlikely friends soon embark on a project to find Zachary Beaver and hopefully reconnect him with Rylee's father almost thirty years later. But while they are on their sleuthing adventure, Rylee learns the real reason why Joe and his mother left New York City in the wake of 9/11"--From book jacket.
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By Mendez, Matt[2019]., Adolescent, Atheneum Call No: REALISTIC F MEN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Three Mexican-Americans---Juan, JD, and Fabi---each try to overcome their individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter.
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[2014]., Adolescent, Merit Press Call No: Realistic FIC Fehlbaum Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: All at once Colby manages to ruin--or so she is told--the reputation of her family by exposing her cheating politician father. Her father runs off with another woman, leaving Colby and her mother and sisters nothing. Forced into a trailer park, Colby contemplates suicide when an embarrassing video makes the rounds on the Internet. Colby contemplates suicide--but also the idea of taking a chance and standing up for the truth.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: FIC GRE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade football season to his recently-deceased father, an NFL legend, but the pressure to succeed is magnified by his inability to read.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Blue Fiction GREEN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade football season to his recently-deceased father, an NFL legend, but the pressure to succeed is magnified by his inability to read.
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2018., Adolescent, Greenwillow Books Call No: Realistic FIC Tamani Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Follows African American Taja Brown from her middle school years to her final year of high school in Texas as she experiences best friends, first love, school, church, betrayal, self-doubt, and new dreams while trying to stay true to herself.
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[2017]., Adolescent, Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC TAM Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Taja Brown, growing up in a conservative and tightly knit African American family, battles family expectations to discover a sense of self and find her unique voice and purpose"--
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By Rinaldi, Annc2007, Pre-adolescent, Harcourt Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free.
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By Rinaldi, Annc2007., Pre-adolescent, Harcourt Call No: Historical fiction FIC RINALDI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great episodesSummary Note: Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emanicipation Proclamation made them free.
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By López, Diana2009, Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After the death of her mother, Texas sixth-grader Lina's grades and mood drop as she watches her father lose himself more and more in books, while her best friend uses Lina as an excuse to secretly meet her boyfriend.
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By López, Diana2009, Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After the death of her mother, Texas sixth-grader Lina's grades and mood drop as she watches her father lose himself more and more in books, while her best friend uses Lina as an excuse to secretly meet her boyfriend.