Category: Current Reading List
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West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
This is an incredible true story of two giraffes who made national and international headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America. This story is retold through the experiences of Woodrow Wilson Nickel and is set in 1938 as the Great Depression takes hold in America. Hitler is threatening Europe and the American people need…
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Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
Nine-year-old Javier Zamora’s trek is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He left his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Javier narrates this story as he travels alone amid strangers and a “coyote” hired to…
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