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Call #: B ANTHONY YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Ibi Aanu Zoboi
(1,095)
Summary: Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights...
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Call #: B BUTLER YA
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Laura Gao , artist
(3,053)
Summary: After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffaloes and devouring stinky tofu, Laura immigrates to Texas, where her hometown is as foreign as Mars -- at least until 2020, when...
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Call #: B GAO YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Shyima Hall
(3,985)
Summary: The author, Shyima Hall, was eight when her parents sold her into slavery. In Egypt's capitol city of Cairo, she lived with a wealthy family and served them eighteen hours a day, seven days a week....
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Call #: B HALL YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Rashad Jennings
(200)
Summary: In his debut book, former NFL running back and Dancing with the Stars champion Rashad Jennings shares his inspiring story and experiences that will encourage readers to follow their dreams. As a kid,...
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Call #: B JENNINGS YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Suzan Wilson
(21)
Summary: Traces the life of a popular novelist, from his childhood as an avid reader to his current success as a creator of horror fiction.
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Call #: B KING YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Mary Dodson Wade
(14)
Summary: Profiles the English author who wrote many books, the best known title being The chronicles of Narnia.
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Call #: B LEWIS YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Pamela S. Turner
(1,772)
Summary: Documents the true story of the legendary samurai who was raised in the household of the enemies who killed his father before being sent to live in a monastery where, against the odds, he learned and...
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Call #: B MINAMOTO YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Kwame Onwuachi
(222)
Summary: Onwuachi tells how he was sent from the Bronx to rural Nigeria by his mother to "learn respect." Through food, he broke out of a dangerous downward spiral and embarked on a new beginning at the...
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Call #: B ONWUACHI YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Jeanne Theoharis
(105)
Summary: Rosa Parks is one of the most well-known Americans today, but much of what is known and taught about her is incomplete, distorted, and just plain wrong. Jeanne Theoharis and Brandy Colbert shatter...
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Call #: B PARKS YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Lisa Yount
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Call #: B PASTEUR YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Call #: B PRESLEY YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Yohuru Williams
(70)
Summary: According to Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson was "a sit-inner before the sit-ins, a freedom rider before the Freedom Rides." According to Hank Aaron, Robinson was a leader of the Black Power...
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Call #: B ROBINSON YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Call #: B SCHINDLER YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Simon Schwartz
(725)
Summary: "Simon Schwartz was born in 1982 in the GDR (East Germany). One and a half years later, he left the country with his parents, and the family resettled in West Berlin. As political dissidents, his...
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Call #: B SCHWARTZ YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Noelle Stevenson , illustrator
(7,257)
Summary: In a collection of essays and personal mini-comics that span eight years of her young adult life, author-illustrator Noelle Stevenson charts the highs and lows of being a creative human in the world....
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Call #: B STEVENSON YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Rebekah Taussig
(5,660)
Summary: Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous, inspirational, or angelic. She longed for more stories that allowed...
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Call #: B TAUSSIG YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Lindy Tsang
(780)
Summary: From humble beginnings as an outsider, growing up one of the few Chinese students at her primary school in Ireland, to YouTube stardom and her own line of beauty products, Lindy Tsang, aka...
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Call #: B TSANG YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Sandra Uwiringiyimana
(6,125)
Summary: The author shares the story of her survival of the Gatumba massacre, despite losing her sister, and how after moving to America she found healing through art and activism.
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Call #: B UWIRINGIYIMANA YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Dan Wakefield
(38)
Summary: Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, and many other brilliant novels and short stories, is one of our greatest American writers, often using science...
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Call #: B VONNEGUT YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Jacqueline. Woodson
(83,648)
Summary: "Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each...
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Call #: B WOODSON YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Eugene Yelchin , illustrator
(1,694)
Summary: Drama, family secrets, and a KGB spy in his own kitchen! How will Yevgeny ever become a national hero when he doesn't even have his own room? He's not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. Nor...
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Call #: B YELCHIN YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Koren Zailckas
(24,233)
Summary: The author describes her abuse of alcohol.
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Call #: B ZAILCKAS YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Valerie Zenatti
(547)
Summary: Like all young Israelis, Valerie Zenatti enlisted in the national defense service on her 18th birthday, where for the next two years she endured rigorous training and harsh living conditions,...
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Call #: B ZENATTI YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Paul Zindel
(980)
Summary: An account of Paul Zindel's teenage years on Staten Island, when his life was enriched by finding his own personal pigman, or mentor.
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Call #: B ZINDEL YA
Location: YA Biographies
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