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Language
English
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Description
What happens when one attempts to exchange the life one is given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into?--Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel of multiple narratives--formally daring, fierce, but full of pity--delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life.
What happens when one...
3) Migrations
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Franny Stone has always been a wanderer. By following the ocean's tides and the birds that soar above, she can forget the losses that have haunted her life. But when the wild she so loves begins to disappear, Franny can no longer wander without a destination. She arrives in remote Greenland with one purpose: to find the world's last flock of Arctic terns and follow them on their final migration. She convinces Ennis Malone, captain of the Saghani,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 25 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows a bird, a monarch butterfly, and an eel from summer on a farm until they make their respective fall voyages south, and then later begin to return north again when the weather warms
Author
Language
English
Description
"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
7) Silverwing
Author
Series
Silverwing saga volume 1
Language
English
Description
In this graphic novel edition of a best-selling story, young silverwing bat Shade is blown off course during his colony's migration to Hibernaculum, during which he meets other winged loners on his journey back to his family, but with a long and dangerous flight ahead, he must figure out who he can trust.
Publisher
UniCine
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
Español
Description
Three cultures, three countries, three realities introduce us to the lives of three children that all share the same sentiment, dealing with the absence of a loved one and the need to bring them back home
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
As autumn nears, flowers fade and insects become quiet, and Tiny Bird leaves his northern home for the long and perilous journey to lush southern forests. Includes facts about hummingbirds.
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Thousands of birds are migrating from the Arctic to the Caribbean when a hurricane rips a young whimbrel, Numenia, from her sisters, forcing her to struggle on alone. Includes note about the true story that inspired the book.
Author
Publisher
The Gryphon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"The warbler is helped along the way by three different children and families: a Nicaraguan family whose traditional shade coffee farm sustains migrant birds, an African-American family that creates a garden in their backyard on the gulf coast to provide food for her, and a family from The Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation in Canada who have preserved land for all animals."--
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
日本語
Description
Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and finds himself without a job. He decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled 'Departures' thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency. He discovers that the job is actually for a 'Nokanshi' or 'encoffineer,' a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry...
16) Tren de invierno
Author
Publisher
Cuento De Luz
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
Se acerca el invierno y, como todos los años por estas fechas, los animales del bosque toman el tren que los llevará hacia tierras más cálidas. Todo transcurre con normalidad, hasta que un pasajero de la voz de alarma: "¡Nos hemos olvidado de Ardilla! ¡Hay que regresar a buscarla!"
17) Dino Duckling
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Dino Duckling can dive, swim and fish just like his duckling brothers and sisters. But when the time comes for the family to fly south for the winter, Dino Duckling finds he really is different!
A funny and touching celebration of difference, based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling. Dino Duckling can dive, swim and fish just like his duckling brothers and sisters. But when the time comes for the family fly south for the winter, Dino...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eve Mann arrives in Ideal, Georgia, in 1972 looking for answers about the mother who died giving her life. A mother named Mercy. A mother who for all of Eve's twenty-two years has been a mystery and a quest. Eve's search for her mother, and the father she never knew, is a mission to discover her identity, her name, her people, and her home. Eve's questions and longing launch a multigenerational story that sprawls back to the turn of the twentieth...
20) Stealing home
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
111 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sandy Saito looks back to his childhood in 1940s Vancouver, when he was eight years old. He's a happy kid: he goes to school, reads comic books and is obsessed with baseball -- especially the Asahi baseball team, the pride of the Japanese-Canadian community. Then the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor -- and everything changes. The kids Sandy used to play with every day now call him names and chase him from the playground. He and his family are no longer...
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