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"When Soviet troops invade Japanese-occupied Manchuria during the last days of World War II, twelve-year-old Natsu Kimura must care for her younger sister as they struggle to survive and return to Japan"--Provided by publisher.

"When the Ku Klux Kla???s unwelcome reappearance rattles Stella's segregated southern town, bravery battles prejudice ... Stella lives in the segregated South--in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. Some stores she can go into. Some stores she ca???t. Some folks are right pleasant. Others are a lot less so. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan has???t bothered them for years. But one late night, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something the???re never supposed to see, something that is the first flicker of change to come, unwelcome change by any stretch of the imagination. As Stell???s community--her world--is upended, she decides to fight fire with fire. And she learns that ashes do???t necessarily signify an end."--Publisher's web site.

Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris and is blind by age six. Her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, so she can memorize it and navigate the real streets. When the Germans occupy Paris, they flee to Saint-Malo on the coast. In Germany, Werner grows up enchanted by a crude radio he finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, which wins him a place with the Hitler Youth. Werner travels throughout Europe, and finally to Saint-Malo, where his meets Marie Laure.

Presents in graphic novel format the life and achievements of Nat Turner, a slave and prophet who led a revolt against slave owners in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.

A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.

Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai and an unusual girl named Marina witness an unsettling ceremony in a cemetery in Barcelona, which prompts them to investigate the origins of the ritual and leads them into a dark and mysterious world under the city.

When Paloma and her family travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina, for her father Santiago's UN ambassadorial appointment, Paloma decides to learn more about his life in the years leading up to the military dictatorship of 1976. But everything changes when she meets Franco Bonetti, an activist member of H.I.J.O.S., a group whose members are the children of men and women who were forcibly disappeared by the state during Argentina's "Dirty War." Franco agrees to help Paloma, but as she digs into her father's past, she begins to wonder if the truth will come at much too high a cost.

Traces the story of the MacIvey family of Florida from 1858 to 1968.

Continues the story of Belle and Adam, once known as the Beast, who, soon after their marriage, must take on heavy responsibilities as rulers of Aveyon during the French Revolution.

"A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning"--Publisher.