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1) Elemental
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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An all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted, and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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"The true story of a high school senior whose faked pregnancy rocked her community and made international headlines. Growing up, Gaby Rodriguez was often told she would end up a teen mom. After all, her mother and her older sisters had gotten pregnant as teenagers...from an outsider's perspective, it was practically a family tradition. Gaby had ambitions that didn't include teen motherhood. But she wondered: How would she be treated if she "lived...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A compassionate and eye-opening examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma-- from the eighteenth century, through America's major...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He's merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being...
5) Class act
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he is't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted, and to make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids and is finding it hard not to withdraw, even as their mutual friend Jordan tries to keep their group of friends together."--Provided by publisher....
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Language
English
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"How do we talk about bias? How do we address racial disparities and inequities? What role do our institutions play in creating, maintaining, and magnifying those inequities? What role do we play? With a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt offers us the language and courage we need to face one of the biggest and most troubling issues of our time. She exposes racial bias...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata, whose Convenience Store Woman has now sold more than a million copies worldwide, returns with a brilliant and wonderfully unsettling collection, her most recent fiction to be published in Japan. In these twelve stories, Murata mixes an unusual cocktail of humor and horror and turns the norms and traditions of society on their head to better question them. In "A First-Rate Material," Nana and Naoki...
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"All of the animals judge Rory the Tea-Rex before they get to know her. When they make a mistake, they must fix it. Children will enjoy reading this leveled text with a lesson to learn"--Provided by publisher.
Rory the Tea-Rex is new in town, and the other dinosaurs do not trust her because of her sharp teeth and claws--but when they realize they have misjudged her they have to set things right.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When the National Animal Chorus gathers to perform the immortal works of Mr. Herbert Timberteeth, the performance doesn't go exactly as planned due to certain preconceived notions of what animals like to do.
11) Reel Injun
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color with black and white seq. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hollywood has an impressive track record, one that spans more than 4,000 films, of blatantly misrepresenting Native people and their cultures. Featuring interviews with filmmakers and activists such as Clint Eastwood, Jim Jarmusch and Russell Means, Reel Injun delves into the fascinating history of the Hollywood Indian with razor-sharp insight and humor, tracing its checkered cinematic evolution from the silent film era to today.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After listing activities that are stereotypically, but not always, attributed to princesses, fairies, pirates, superheroes, and more, encourages the reader to imagine what one could be, despite others' expectations. Includes note to parents.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Containing practical, specific parenting advice; strategies for effecting change with educators, store managers, corporations, and more; and tips for challenging and changing the media, this essential guide gives parents the tools they need to fight back against the modern stereotyping and sexualization of young girls. Activist Melissa Wardy shares tangible advice for getting young girls to start thinking critically about sexed-up toys and clothes...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eatwell reveals the truth behind forty-five myths about the French, from the infamous horsemeat banquets of the nineteenth century that inspired an irrepressible rumor, to breaking down our long-held beliefs about French history and society (the French are a nation of cheese-eating surrender monkeys, right?)"--Dust jacket flap.
18) Discrimination
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Series
Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses prejudice and how it can lead to discrimination against minority groups, focusing on blacks, Jews, and Native Americans.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixth-graders Lauren and Tara have always done everything together so it is only natural that they both try out for their middle school musical play, about an "all-American" girl in 1958; Tara gets the lead role, as usual, because in the teacher's mind Lauren, half-Jewish and half-Chinese, does not fit the image of all-American girl--Lauren is hurt but resolved to support her friend, but her two grandmothers are furious and they intend to do something...
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