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1) Roll with it
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2022 Bluestem Award Nominees
2024 FPPL Disability Pride Children's Selections
Baking Class (WPL-Youth)
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2024 FPPL Disability Pride Children's Selections
Baking Class (WPL-Youth)
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Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.
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OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
OBD Newbery Medal Winners (1922-2022) - YOUTH
OBD Novels in Verse - YOUTH
OBD YA Historical Fiction - YOUTH
OBD Newbery Medal Winners (1922-2022) - YOUTH
OBD Novels in Verse - YOUTH
OBD YA Historical Fiction - YOUTH
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In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
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2022 Summer Top Picks for Middle Schoolers
2023 March Book Madness at Blackhawk
Arab American Heritage 2023
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2023 March Book Madness at Blackhawk
Arab American Heritage 2023
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Twelve-year-old Iranian refugee Khosrou moves to Oklahoma where he goes by Daniel and models himself after the legendary storyteller Scheherazade as he weaves tales that reflect his perseverance and reinvention.
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a...
4) Arise
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"Dark spirits and ill omens arise as Amelia, a ghost still trapped somewhere between life and death, continues to fight for her relationship with the human boy Joshua"--
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In 1957, problems at the mine threaten to ruin Christmas for fifth-grader Don, his family, and the rest of their Oklahoma coal town, but Don's bloodhound, Frank, is determined to do whatever it takes to make the holiday special for Don and his six-year-old sister, Susan. Alternate chapters are told from the human and canine points of view.
6) Tex
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The love between two teenage brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up.
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"Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. A passionate follower of W.E.B. Du Bois, he believes that black people should rise up to claim their place as equals. Sixteen-year-old Angel Hill is a loner, mostly disregarded by her peers as a goody-goody. Her father is dying, and her family's financial situation is in turmoil....
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How I became a ghost volume 2
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"Ten-year-old Isaac, now a ghost, continues with his people as they walk the Choctaw Trail of Tears headed to Indian Territory in what will one day become Oklahoma. There have been surprises aplenty on their trek, but now Isaac and his three Choctaw comrades learn they can time travel--making for an unexpected adventure. The foursome heads back in time to Washington, D.C., to bear witness for Choctaw Chief Pushmataha who has come to the nation's capital...
12) Tornado
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"Wyatt Anderson no está nada contento con que su delicada prima Alison esté de visita en su rancho de Oklahoma ... pero Wyatt termina teneindo problemas más serios cuando dos tornados descienden sobre la planicie que ellos se encuentran"--Page four of cover.
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How I became a ghost volume 1
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English
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Native American Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Native American Heritage Month (older kids)
Native American Heritage Month: Kids (November 2022)
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A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land its people had ever known, and how their journey to Oklahoma led him to become a ghost--one with the ability to help those he left behind.
15) The revenant
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When seventeen-year-old Willemina Hammond fakes credentials to get a teaching position at a school for Cherokee girls in nineteenth-century Oklahoma, she is haunted by the ghost of a drowned student.
16) Trust your name
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When the Choctaw Nation sponsors an all-Indian high school basketball team to compete in a summer tournament, the team includes Choctaw Bobby Byington and other Indian high school players from Eastern Oklahoma.
17) Trophy buck
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Excited to go on his first family hunting trip, twelve-year-old Rodney learns Cherokee traditions, gun safety, and patience.
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Book Club Bags @ Messenger
Celebrate Dogs!
Explore the Classics - YOUTH
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
Celebrate Dogs!
Explore the Classics - YOUTH
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
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A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.
19) Semiprecious
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Uprooted and living with an aunt in 1960s Oklahoma, thirteen-year-old Garnet and her older sister Opal brave their mother's desertion and their father's recovery from an accident, learning that "the best home of all is the one you make inside yourself."
20) Tornado alley
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Disaster strikes (Marlane Kennedy) volume 2
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Although Wyatt is not happy that he has to entertain his visiting cousin, he soon has much bigger problems to worry about when two tornadoes strike the area.
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