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Before she was a famous New York City fashion designer, Ann Lowe was a young Black girl growing up in Alabama, surrounded by flowers and the fabric inside her mother's dress shop. Ann learned sewing skills from her mother and soon was helping her create gowns for the city's wealthy White establishment. Tragedy befalls her when she is just sixteen years old: her mother falls ill and later dies, leaving Ann to compartmentalize her grief and work around...
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Tessa loves how her grandmother always smells of campfire stories. Mom says it's because Kohkom spends her days sewing beautiful beads onto smoked hides. Inspired, Tessa asks Kohkom to teach her beading, but first she must listen and learn about the many stories held in a bead.
8) Arthur: S25
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Eight-year-old Arthur solves problems big and small that kids face every day! For children ages 4 to 8, Arthur teaches kids about reading and writing, and encourages the development of positive social skills. Each story is tackled with empathy and humor. Based on the popular children’s books by Marc Brown, Arthur is television’s longest-running children's animated series!
10) One lucky cat!
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Garfield comes to the big screen in an all-new animated film that features Chris Pratt as the voice of everyone's favorite lasagna-loving cat. This Step 2 Step into Reading levelled reader is sure to thrill children ages 4 to 6.
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In a treacherous district of the Prison City, one that is ruled over by a fanatical religious cult, Chloe is finally reunited with her long-lost brother. Because of the guilt she’s been harboring for leaving him behind all those years ago, she keeps her identity a secret, determined to continue protecting him from the shadows. But as the day of the children’s daring final escape approaches, so does the evil that’s been slowly creeping toward...
13) Sheriff Teddy
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Divided Berlin, 1950s: 13-year-old Kalle lives with his family in Wedding in the Western Sector of the city. He devours stories of the Wild West, even sporting a sheriff’s star on his jacket and declaring himself the leader of a local clique of boys who call themselves the “Teddy Gang.” But when Kalle's family moves to the Eastern Sector, his braggadocio and love of action stories make it difficult for him to fit in with his new classmates,...
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From Peru, where the mineral is extracted, all the way to France, where the metal is refined, lead pollutes the earth, the rivers, food supplies, and local people. Despite being banned in numerous products including fuel, paints and the manufacture of pipes, lead is still often used in buildings, weapon development, jewellery and even in batteries. At Évin-Malmaison, France, lead from refineries has contaminated the earth underneath various schools,...
15) Kaddish
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In Steve Brand’s timeless documentary KADDISH – as bracing as any fiction – we witness a candid portrait of a young Jew coming to terms with his father's traumatic history. It is the story of the stormy yet loving relationship between writer and Jewish activist Yossi Klein and his father Zoltan, who had survived the Holocaust’s devastation of Hungarian Jewry by hiding in a hole in the ground for six months while his parents – Yossi’s grandparents...
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In this graphic novel, it's been raining and raining in town. And now one of the neighboring towns is trying to move in. In the year 2036, the whole of Kingsby county has been flooded after several weeks of torrential rain. Only a few villages have escaped the flood. One of these is the village of Pennyworth, where Tom and Jenny live. When the inhabitants of nearby Brook Falls arrive and attempt to lay claim to Pennyworth, a struggle ensues that places...
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