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21) Clash
Author
Series
Click volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Can Olive stay positive when a social-climbing bully moves to town? In her fourth adventure, sixth grader Olive Branche is on top of the world until new girl Natasha begins to encroach on her friendships, slowly and methodically freezing her out of her many different social circles. Relentlessly optimistic Olive tries to stay genial despite Nat's overt jibes, but when Nat takes it to a new level and ruins Olive's carefully planned Halloween party,...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted...
In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen, including the first-ever blackouts triggered by hackers. They culminated in the summer of 2017, when the malware known as NotPetya was unleashed, penetrating, disrupting, and paralyzing some of the world's largest companies--from drug manufacturing to software...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these questions. These questions took on a new urgency for Pagels when dealing with unimaginable loss--the death of her young son, followed a year later...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives -- experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. Now Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. Brown argues that we're experiencing a spiritual crisis of disconnection, and introduces four practices of true belonging that challenge everything we believe...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their birth. While this initially seemed like a novel concept, by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is meritocracy now under attack from both right and left? In The Aristocracy of Talent, esteemed journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge traces the history of meritocracy forged by the...
Author
Series
Canterwood Crest. Main series volume 17
Publisher
Aladdin M!X
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Aladdin M!X ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thanksgiving break is approaching, but no one's even close to relaxing, especially not Lauren, who is dealing with boyfriend issues and training to test for the advanced team while fighting feelings of jealousy toward another rider.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolize Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani grows up, moving with her tightknit family from shelter to shelter, her story reaches back to trace the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
At an exclusive prep school on Long Island, Jill Newman looks forward to her senior year as a member of the school's most elite clique, the Players, until new evidence surfaces about the murder of her close friend Shaila.
Author
Language
English
Description
Delve into this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of Malcolm Gladwell's writings from The New Yorker, in which the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience.
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety...
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
A unique and irreverent take on everything that's wrong with our “national conversation about race”—and what to do about it
How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race is represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and politics. Centuries after our nation was founded on genocide, settler...
How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race is represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and politics. Centuries after our nation was founded on genocide, settler...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing shortages, stunted growth and innovation, persistent racial and economic segregation, and car-dependent development?
It's time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations and stories, Gray shows why zoning...
It's time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations and stories, Gray shows why zoning...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! I may be in trouble...but there's more to my story. When Kai Tamura sneaks into Ms. Opal's classroom for a look at an upcoming exam, he discovers that he's not the only one breaking rules. Ms. Opal is changing answers on her students' standardized tests—and Kai snaps some photos to prove it. Kai doesn't decide to bust Ms. Opal...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"A riveting history of the American West told for the first time through the pioneering women who used the challenges of migration and settlement as opportunities to advocate for their rights, and transformed the country in the process. Between 1840 and 1910, over half a million men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, the vast lands that extended from the Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean. Survival in this uncharted region...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eloquent and detailed...precise and well-thought-out...Read her book — and listen." — Jane Smiley, The Washington Post.
Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home in San Francisco, and plenty of close friends and family. Yet in her late 40s, she and her husband decided to leave the big city and move to his family ranch in Iowa—all for...
Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home in San Francisco, and plenty of close friends and family. Yet in her late 40s, she and her husband decided to leave the big city and move to his family ranch in Iowa—all for...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today’s most pressing issues.
“Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the twenty-first century.”—Bill Gates, The New York Times...
“Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the twenty-first century.”—Bill Gates, The New York Times...
40) Lucy and Linh
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Australia, Lucy tries to balance her life at home surrounded by her Chinese immigrant family, with her life at a pretentious private school.
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