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In Our Backyard: Human Trafficking in America and What We Can Do to Stop It

9 best books like In Our Backyard: Human Trafficking in America and What We Can Do to Stop It (Nita Belles): Bronx Masquerade, Of Beast and Beauty, Beast, My Name is Not Easy, On Two Feet and Wings, Freakling, Baker's Magic, The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner: And Other Stories, The Dead House

Bronx Masquerade
AuthorNikki Grimes
ISBN0142501891
When Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class, some of his classmates clamor to read their poems aloud too. Soon they're having weekly poetry sessions and, one by one, the eighteen students are opening up and taking on the risky challenge of self-revelation. There's Lupe Alvarin,...
Of Beast and Beauty
AuthorStacey Jay
In the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret...

In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city’s vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant beast, fights...
Beast
AuthorDonna Jo Napoli
ISBN0689870051
Meet the Beast-- before there was Beauty Orasmyn is the prince of Persia and heir to the throne. His religion fills his heart and his mind, and he strives for the knowledge and leadership his father demonstrates. But on the day of the Feast of Sacrifices, Orasmyn makes a foolish choice that results in a...
My Name is Not Easy
AuthorDebby Dahl Edwardson
ISBN0761459804
Luke knows his I'nupiaq name is full of sounds white people can't say. He knows he'll have to leave it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles from their Arctic village. At Sacred Heart School things are different. Instead of family, there are students -- Eskimo, Indian,...
On Two Feet and Wings
AuthorAbbas Kazerooni
This is an updated cover edition of B008N4HWTC.

This amazing true story of a boy fleeing Tehran on his own during the Iran-Iraq War provides a powerful child's-eye view of political tumult, separation, survival, dreams and triumphs in a moving memoir that chronicles extraordinary times...
Freakling
AuthorLana Krumwiede
ISBN0763659371
In twelve-year-old Taemon’s city, everyone has a power called psi—the ability to move and manipulate objects with their minds. When Taemon loses his psi in a traumatic accident, he must hide his lack of power by any means possible. But a humiliating incident at a sports tournament exposes his disability,...
Baker's Magic
AuthorDiane Zahler
ISBN1623706424
Bee is an orphan, alone in a poor, crumbling kingdom. In desperation, she steals a bun from a bakery, and to her surprise, the baker offers her a place at his shop. As she learns to bake, Bee discovers that she has a magical power. When a new friend desperately needs her help against an evil mage, Bee wonders...
The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner: And Other Stories
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0857534831
Poor Mr Swimble is having a bad day.

Rabbits are bouncing out of his hat, pigeons are flying out of his jacket and every time he points his finger, something magically appears – cheese sandwiches, socks . . . even a small yellow elephant on wheels!

It’s becoming a real nuisance –...
The Dead House
AuthorDawn Kurtagich
ISBN1780622341
Twenty-five years ago, Elmbridge High burned down. Three people were killed and one pupil, Carly Johnson, disappeared. Now a diary has been found in the ruins of the school. The diary belongs to Kaitlyn Johnson, Carly’s identical twin sister. But Carly didn’t have a twin . . .

Re-opened...
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