Blended by Draper, Sharon M. 

Publisher Edition - Large Print Hardcover(Thorndike Press, 2019)


Publication Date: 01/01/2020

BTSB #: 290473 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Large print books Racially mixed people - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Divorce - Fiction Family life - Ohio - Fiction

Summary: Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police. Large print hardcover format.

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Blended by Draper, Sharon M. 

Paperback(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2020)


Publication Date: 04/07/2020

BTSB #: 290487 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4 MG RC: 3.4 3-5 Lexile: 610 F&P: Y

Genres: Family Life Multicultural

Subjects: Racially mixed people - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Divorce - Fiction Family life - Ohio - Fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.

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Blended by Draper, Sharon M. 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2018)


Publication Date: 10/30/2018

BTSB #: 290490 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4 MG RC: 3.4 3-5 Lexile: 610 F&P: Y

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Racially mixed people - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Divorce - Fiction Family life - Ohio - Fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.

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Lenny's book of everything by Foxlee, Karen 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2019)


Publication Date: 04/16/2019

BTSB #: 349576 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 3.7 6-8 Lexile: 640 F&P: X

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Siblings - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction Encyclopedias and dictionaries - Fiction Family life - Ohio - Fiction Ohio - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In 1970s Ohio, Lenny and her younger brother, Davey, who suffers from a rare form of gigantism, cope with his declining health by poring over each installment of Burrell's Build-It-at-Home Encyclopedia Set.

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M.C. Higgins, the great by Hamilton, Virginia 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster, 1999)

BTSB #: 416160 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 6.2 6-8 Lexile: 560 F&P: X

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Family life - Ohio - Fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: As a slag heap creeps closer to his home in the Ohio Hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.

Time pieces : the book of times by Hamilton, Virginia 

Audio Book(Playaway Digital Audio :, 2007)


Publication Date: 01/01/2005

BTSB #: P00119 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-11   


Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Family life - Ohio - Fiction Cousins - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Country life - Ohio - Fiction Collies - Fiction Dogs - Fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: Valena, living in rural Ohio with her family and her dog, shares exciting adventures with her cousin Melinda, including seeing the aurora borealis, surviving a tornado, and going to an amazing circus.

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Very rich by Horvath, Polly 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2018)


Publication Date: 09/25/2018

BTSB #: 464516 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.3 MG RC: 4.6 3-5 Lexile: 750

Genres: Supernatural Family Life

Subjects: Family life - Ohio - Fiction Eccentrics and eccentricities - Fiction Poverty - Fiction Wealth - Fiction Supernatural - Fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: Ten-year-old Rupert, from a very large, very poor family, accidently becomes part of an eccentric rich family's life beginning at Christmas, and soon sees that wealth is not everything.

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Watercress by Wang, Andrea 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2021)


Publication Date: 03/30/2021

BTSB #: 919654 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 3.7 LG Lexile: 610 AD F&P: N

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Watercress - Fiction Harvesting - Fiction Chinese Americans - Fiction Family life - Ohio - Fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.

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