Ann Malaspina

• Sep-2009
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Louis needs to write an essay for school about young Abraham Lincoln. But it's 1951 in Alabama, and African Americans cannot use the public library. Mama says one day soon they'll be able to check out books, but Louis isn't going to wait! When he mak...

• May-2010
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In the noisy streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh, another busy morning is beginning as Yasmin rides to work in her father s rattling rickshaw. Yasmin longs to go to school so she can learn to read, but her family needs the money she and her sister earn at t...

• Jan-2013
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• Sep-2013
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In Alice's Georgia hometown, there was no track where an African-American girl could practice, so she made her own crossbar with sticks and rags. With the support of her coach, friends, and community, Alice started to win medals. Her dream to compete...

• Jan-2019
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It's 1942. Sam's class is knitting socks for soldiers and Sam is a terrible knitter. Keiko is a good knitter, but some kids at school don't want anything to do with her because the Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor and her family is Japanese American...

• Aug-2022
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Kiki is a teen artist living with her Greek-American family in Queens. After a man with mental illness is killed by police, protests fill the streets. Kiki's into art, not activism, and would rather observe from the sidelines than participate, but sh...

• Dec-2024
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Giant eels have invaded the Jersey Shore town where 12-year-old Liam is spending the summer at Gramps’s cottage. The eels chew up postcards in mailboxes, get into Mom’s paints, and cause traffic accidents. No one knows why the eels are so...

• Jun-2025
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Essie’s twin brother Nate died when he fell off the railroad bridge. No one knows why he was up there, or how he fell. After Nate’s old dog Apollo spots what looks like a ghost on their morning walk by the river, Essie wants to find out w...