Author: Karla Manternach
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534428216
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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When third-grader Meena starts to believe she has super powers and is protected from epileptic seizures, she jeopardizes her relationship with her friends and younger sister.
Author: Karla Manternach
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9781665921688
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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“For Junie B. graduates” (Kirkus Reviews), all four novels in the Meena Zee series follow Meena as she navigates the triumphs and challenges of family, friendship, and personal secrets—now together in a collectible hardcover boxed set! Meena Zee is one colorful kid! She wears vibrant clothes, eats every shade of the rainbow, and plucks eye-catching trash from the neighborhood recycling bins. When an unexpected seizure lands her in the ER, though, everything starts to seem gray. But if anyone can turn trash into treasure, it’s Meena. While she learns to live with a medical condition, she keeps right on trying to be a better friend, sister, and teammate. Tag along as she works to create a first-place project, discover her superpowers, find a missing cat, join a new team, and keep her best friend from moving away. No matter what ups and downs she faces, count on Meena to let her true colors shine! This sweet hardcover boxed set includes: Meena Meets Her Match Never Fear, Meena’s Here! Meena Lost and Found Team Meena
Author: Karla Manternach
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1534428186
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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“For Junie B. graduates” (Kirkus Reviews). Join Meena as she navigates the triumphs and challenges of family, friendship, and personal secrets in this charming middle grade debut. Meena’s life is full of color. She wears vibrant clothes, eats every shade of the rainbow, and plucks eye-catching trash from the neighborhood recycling bins. But when Meena’s best friend, Sofía, stops playing with her at recess and she experiences an unexpected and scary incident at breakfast, nothing can fight off the gray. That’s when Meena comes up with a plan to create the BEST and most COLORFUL Valentine’s Day Box in the class. With the help of her cousin, Eli, and her stuffed zebra, Raymond, Meena discovers that the best way to break through the blah is to let her true colors shine.
Author: Karla Manternach
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 153448616X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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For graduates of Junie B. Jones, the “genuinely compassionate” (Kirkus Reviews) third novel in the Meena Zee series follows lovable Meena as she tries to keep her best friend, Sofía, from moving away. Everything is going Meena’s way. Her seizures are under control, she’s started the Finders Keepers Club, and she’s trying hard to be a better friend. So when Sofía’s cat, Oriol, goes missing, Meena is the first to help her look. But when Meena learns Sofía’s family might be moving far away, everything starts to fall apart. Worst of all, Sofía seems more worried about finding her cat than leaving Meena behind! With a little help from her trash collection, Meena sets out to locate Oriol and keep Sofía close. But what if being a good friend means losing what she loves most?
Author: Karla Manternach
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9781665954815
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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“For Junie B. graduates” (Kirkus Reviews), all four novels in the Meena Zee series follow Meena as she navigates the triumphs and challenges of family, friendship, and personal secrets—now together in a collectible paperback boxed set! Meena Zee is one colorful kid! She wears vibrant clothes, eats every shade of the rainbow, and plucks eye-catching trash from the neighborhood recycling bins. When an unexpected seizure lands her in the ER, though, everything starts to seem gray. But if anyone can turn trash into treasure, it’s Meena. While she learns to live with a medical condition, she keeps right on trying to be a better friend, sister, and teammate. Tag along as she works to create a first-place project, discover her superpowers, find a missing cat, join a new team, and keep her best friend from moving away. No matter what ups and downs she faces, count on Meena to let her true colors shine! This sweet paperback boxed set includes: Meena Meets Her Match Never Fear, Meena’s Here! Meena Lost and Found Team Meena
Author: Karen Chan (Entrepreneur)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737240402
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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"Jax loves the food his family cooks. But when his grandmother packs his favorite Chinese dishes for his first day of school, Jax discovers his lunch looks very different from what the rest of his classmates are eating. Embarrassed to eat his food, Jax finds himself sitting alone. When Meena sits next to him, the two strike an unexpected friendship over their lunches, sharing a mutual joy of time spent in the kitchen and the delicious meals they eat with their families. What's That? is a heartwarming story about the foods that make up who we are and how the meals we eat can bring us together."--Publisher's website.
Author: Neela Vaswani
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763657476
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
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In this extraordinary novel in letters, an Indian immigrant girl in New York City and a Kentucky coal miner's son find strength and perspective by sharing their true selves across the miles. Meena and River have a lot in common: fathers forced to work away from home to make ends meet, grandmothers who mean the world to them, and faithful dogs. But Meena is an Indian immigrant girl living in New York City’s Chinatown, while River is a Kentucky coal miner’s son. As Meena’s family studies for citizenship exams and River’s town faces devastating mountaintop removal, this unlikely pair become pen pals, sharing thoughts and, as their camaraderie deepens, discovering common ground in their disparate experiences. With honesty and humor, Meena and River bridge the miles between them, creating a friendship that inspires bravery and defeats cultural misconceptions. Narrated in two voices, each voice distinctly articulated by a separate gifted author, this chronicle of two lives powerfully conveys the great value of being and having a friend and the joys of opening our lives to others who live beneath the same sun.
Author: Juniper Fitzgerald
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558613412
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Illustrating the myriad ways that mothers provide for their children—piloting airplanes, washing floors, or dancing at a strip club—this book is the first to depict a sex-worker parent. It provides an expanded notion of working mothers and challenges the idea that only some jobs result in good parenting. We’re reminded that, while every mama’s work looks different, every mama works to make their baby’s world better.
Author: Karol Ruth Silverstein
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1632897997
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
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Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award! A debut novel for fans of The Fault in Our Stars that thoughtfully and humorously depicts teen Ricky Bloom's struggles with a recent chronic illness diagnosis. "Silverstein sheds a powerful light on disease and how managing it can bring out one’s inner warrior. A blistering coming-of-age tale that will propel readers into Ricky’s corner." -Booklist As if her parents' divorce and sister's departure for college weren't bad enough, fourteen-year-old Ricky Bloom has just been diagnosed with a life-changing chronic illness. Her days consist of cursing everyone out, skipping school--which has become a nightmare--daydreaming about her crush, Julio, and trying to keep her parents from realizing just how bad things are. But she can't keep her ruse up forever. Ricky's afraid, angry, alone, and one suspension away from repeating ninth grade when she realizes: she can't be held back. She'll do whatever it takes to move forward--even if it means changing the person she's become. Lured out of her funk by a quirky classmate, Oliver, who's been there too, Ricky's porcupine exterior begins to shed some spines. Maybe asking for help isn't the worst thing in the world. Maybe accepting circumstances doesn't mean giving up.
Author: Adania Shibli
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811229084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
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A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian people Finalist for the National Book Award Longlisted for the International Booker Prize Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba—the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people—and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand. Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past.
