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Junebug in Trouble

Yearling

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It’s been several busy months since Junebug and his family moved away from their old housing project. Now Junebug is ecstatic about seeing his best friend Robert again at the beach on Labor Day weekend. But Robert’s with Trevor, another project pal, who happens to be a gang member with a gun. Junebug’s scared of Robert joining Trevor’s gang and wonders if he can stop him.

At home, Junebug thinks about the father he hardly knows. He has been in prison for over six years. Maybe he’s really innocent, but if not, will people think that Junebug will grow up to be like him?
Junebug

Square Fish

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Some of the stuff that goes on in the Auburn Street Projects, I’m never gonna do. These projects are like some kind of never-never land, like they never got put on a regular map. Nobody comes around here on purpose. It’s as if we all got lost, right in the middle of the city.

Reeve McClain, Jr.—Junebug—has decided to skip his birthday. Since ten is the age when boys in the projects are forced to join gangs or are ensnared by drug dealers, Junebug would rather remain nine. Still, he does have a birthday wish: to someday become a ship’s captain and sail away. So Junebug comes up with a plan to launch a flotilla, fifty glass bottles containing notes with his wish, in the hope that someone somewhere will help to make his dream come true.
Adem's Cross

BookSurge Publishing

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In September 1993, when Adem is fourteen, his homeland of Kosovo has been under Serb military domination for four and a half years. Adem is ethnic Albanian. His people, the great majority of the Kosovo population, share with their Serb neighbors only one thing- an ancient hatred. Adem is sick of living with oppression, sick of the unresisted terrorizing, teargassing, beatings, killings. How he would love to fight back. But the power belongs to the Serbs, and anyway, the Albanians have adopted a policy of non-violent resistance. Clearly, this affords them no protection. And when Adem's beloved sister Fatmira confesses in the strictest confidence that she plans to read a protest poem in public, Adem is heartsick. Fatmira's attempt to speak up sets in motion a chain of events that brings Adem's family closer together, yet separates them.
Giants of The Dawnland: Ancient Wabanaki Tales

Loose Cannon Press

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Native people arrived in Maine at the end of the last Ice Age, around 13,000 years ago. They came in small family groups and survived unimaginably cold winters and animals such as the giant beaver and cave bear. Fortunately, they had their great god, Gluskape, who slowly melted the ice and rid the woods of terrifying serpents. But he was also a liar and a big tease! It was a time when people, animals, and stones were equal; when Gluskape could be as large as a mountain or as small as a mouse, when the Star People traveled to the treetops. Slowly, things started to change. The tribes squabbled and Gluskape hated jealousy. It was m'teouin that people and animals needed-inner strength. The stories instruct people in the ways of hunting, the lore of plants, and the skills they needed every day. There is still much for us to learn about Maine as the next great climate change approaches. Will we hurt the land with our jealousy and greed? Or will we learn to be alone and appreciate the magic of every stone? The Native storytellers who still remembered these tales 12 centuries later included Tomah Joseph, Marie Saksis, Louis Mitchell, and Noel Neptune. By then, few Wabanakis remained and efforts began to preserve the language and write down fragments, mostly from the Fundy area in Nova Scotia.
Junebug and the Reverend

Yearling

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Junebug is set to leave all his old problems behind when his family moves from the projects to a better neighborhood. But new problems crop up when he runs into school bullies and has trouble making new friends. His younger sister, Tasha, quickly fits in and makes friends with the tenants in their building, a group home for the elderly that their mama supervises.

When summer vacation starts, Junebug's lazy-day plans are squashed when Mama tells him to take walks with cranky old Reverend Ashford every day and play soccer with the very same school bullies that beat him up. Is this any way to spend summer vacation? Little does Junebug know that there are some lessons you don't learn in school.
Crossing the Starlight Bridge

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Rayanne Sunipass has grown up on Two Rivers Island in Maine. That is where the Penobscot, the People of the Dawn, have always lived. Then when Ray is nine, her father leaves the family. Soon after, Ray and her mother must move away, to a town off the island.