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"On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl--has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person. Oksana must face the lies her parents told her all her life. Valentina must keep her grandmother's secret, one that could put all their lives in danger. And both of them discover something they've wished for: a best friend. But how far would you go to save your best friend's life? Would you risk your own?"--Amazon.com.

Kurby, Risk, and Carma team up to save their mother ship, BeegMumma, from hostile aliens, but must also face prejudices while completing their mission.

An old red oak tree tells how he and his crow friend, Bongo, help their human neighbors get along after a threat against an immigrant family is carved into the tree's trunk.

Demonstrates the importance of welcoming people from all over the world into the community with love, compassion, and acceptance.

"Six vibrant flamingos with rainbow mohawks, scarves, and handbags make quite a splash when they arrive in a quaint, quiet town. The townsfolk--all birds--aren't happy about this and criticize their new neighbors for being too pink, having necks that are too long, and being altogether too extravagant. The residents decide to confront the flamingos and tell them to leave. However, when they arrive at the flamingos' very pink house, they realize that these birds are nice, attentive, and fun"--Provided by publisher.

Five years after dragons decimated the world, a chance encounter with a young dragon leaves Noah questioning everything he thought he knew.

Set during WWII and told in alternating voices, Nellie, a young Oregonian and survivor of a balloon bomb sent over by the Japanese, strives to understand how the war has torn her community apart and created prejudice against Japanese-Americans, while across the ocean, as part of her nationalist duty, Tamiko helps create the balloon bombs, but in her struggle to survive hunger and starvation, Tamiko muddles her way through her anger against the United States for the war.

As the partition of India nears in 1947 bringing violence even to Jalandhar, Tariq, a Muslim, finds himself caught between his forbidden interest in Anupreet, a Sikh girl, and Margaret, a British girl whose affection for him might help with his dream of studying at Oxford.

A knight who feels secure on his side of the wall that divides his book discovers that his side is not as safe as he thought, and the other side is not as threatening.

"The students of today tell their stories of adversity and growth in letters to the . . . authors of 'The Freedom Writers Diary'--featuring powerful responses from the original Freedom Writers. . . . the next generation . . . shares their struggles with abuse, racism, discrimination, poverty, mental health, imposed borders, LGBTQIA+ identity, and police violence. Each story is answered with a letter of advice from an original Freedom Writer"--Back cover.