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Beyond magenta : transgender teens speak out / by Kuklin, Susan.;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.This book is part of our Book Sanctuary collection. A Book Sanctuary is a physical or digital space that actively protects the freedom to read. It provides shelter and access to endangered books. Launched by Chicago Public Library in 2022, The Book Sanctuary initiative brings attention to challenged titles, and commits to making these books accessible. Innisfil ideaLAB & Library's Book Sanctuary Collection represents books that have been challenged, censored or removed from a public library or school in North America. More than 50 adult, teen, and children's books are in our collection and are available for browsing and borrowing in our branches and online. Explore the collection to learn more about why these books were challenged.LSC
Subjects: Banned book sanctuary.; Gender nonconformity.; Transgender youth.; Gender identity.;
© 2014., Candlewick Press,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Off the record : a story too explosive to keep quiet / by Garrett, Camryn.;
"A teen journalist uncovers the #metoo scandal of the decade: a bigshot Hollywood director is taking advantage of cast members."--Provided by publisher.Ages 14 and up.Grades 10-12.LSC
Subjects: Journalism; African Americans; High school students; Sexual abuse victims; MeToo movement.; Youths' writings.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Glory : magical visions of black beauty / by Bethencourt, Kahran,author.; Bethencourt, Regis,author.;
"From Kahran and Regis Bethencourt, the dynamite husband and wife duo behind CreativeSoul Photography, comes GLORY, a photography book that shatters the conventional standards of beauty for Black children. Featuring a foreword by Amanda Seales With stunning images of natural hair and gorgeous, inventive visual storytelling, Glory puts Black beauty front and center with more than 100 breathtaking photographs and a collection of powerful essays about the children. At its heart, it is a recognition and celebration of the versatility and innate beauty of black hair, and black beauty. The glorious coffee-table book pays homage to the story of our royal past, celebrates the glory of the here and now, and even dares to forecast the future. It brings to life past, present, and future visions of black culture and showcases the power and beauty of recognizing and celebrating oneself. Beauty as an expression of who you are is power. When we define our own standards of beauty, we take back that power. GLORY encourages children around the world to feel that power and harness it"--
Subjects: Blacks; Photography of youth.; Beauty, Personal.; Aesthetics, Black.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Elissas : three girls, one fate, and the deadly secrets of suburbia / by Leach, Samantha,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In the tradition of Three Women, Bustle editor and writer Samantha Leach traces the lives of a trio of girls who met in the Troubled Teen Industry and went on to share the same tragic fate. Samantha and her best friend Elissa were typical privileged, rebellious, suburban girls. But after Elissa was kicked out of their private school, she soon disappeared. At fifteen years old, her parents quietly flew her from Providence, Rhode Island to a $10,000/month therapeutic boarding school in Nebraska. Ponca Pines Academy was part of the Troubled Teen Industry, a network of programs meant to reform wealthy, wayward teens. There she met two girls uncannily named Alissa and Alyssa, who had similar backgrounds and similar vices. In The Elissas, Samantha channels her personal grief and utilizes years of immersive research combined with her biting prose to reveal the cultural forces and systemic failings that contributed to the deaths of all three girls. In 2011, less than a year after graduating from Ponca Pines Academy, Elissa died of encephalitis. Four years later, Alyssa died of a heroin overdose. Another four years after that, Alissa died while battling an opioid addiction. Samantha endeavors to tell each of their stories, expanding on what shaped these young women before, during, and after their time in the Troubled Teen Industry. Based on interviews with other survivors, friends and family of the girls, educators, experts, and comprehensive reporting, The Elissas will challenge what you know about the opioid epidemic and the Troubled Teen Industry--and in doing so, will ultimately offer a window into the secret lives of young suburban women"--
Subjects: Opioid abuse.; Teenage girls; Youth;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Beyond pronouns : the essential guide for parents of trans children / by Plunkett, Tammy,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A guide to raising a trans or non-binary child or teenager"--
Subjects: Gender-nonconforming children; Gender-nonconforming youth; Parents of transgender children.; Transgender children; Transgender youth;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The midwife's sister / by Lee, Christine.;
Subjects: Lee, Christine; Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011; Nurses; Sculptors; Sisters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Avenue of champions / by Kerr, Conor,author.;
Avenue of Champions is a collection of interlinked stories that investigates the inherent connection of Indigenous peoples to the land and the permanence of culture, language and ceremony as a form of resistance to displacement. Based on Papaschase and Métis oral histories and lived experience, these stories set in Edmonton examine the relationship of Indigenous youth with urban constructs and colonial spaces -- from violence and racism to language revitalization and triumph. The central themes are focused on lateral violence, intergenerational trauma, systemic racism, academic relationships with elders and knowledge keepers, whitewashing, language revitalization and restaking land claims on traditional territories.
Subjects: Short stories.; Métis; Racism; First Nations youth; First Nations; Indigenous youth; Urban youth;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tea, scones, and malaria : a memoir of growing up in Africa / by Brooke, Katlynn,author.;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Brooke, Katlynn; Authors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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My life as a diamond / by Manzer, Jenny.;
When Caz moves to Seattle and tries out for the local baseball team, but hopes to keep the secrets of his past behind him.LSC
Subjects: Baseball stories.; Friendship; Transsexual youth;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The gender creative child : pathways for nurturing and supporting children who live outside gender boxes / by Ehrensaft, Diane.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword / by Norman Spack -- Who is the gender creative child? -- What's your gender? : from boxes to spectrums to webs to gender infinity -- The gender spread : apples, oranges, and fruit salad -- When it's gender and something else or something else -- It takes a gender creative parent to negotiate the gender maze -- If gender is expansive, wherefore a shrink? -- Do we want a doctor in the house? -- Into the streets/onto the screens -- What's left to learn? -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the author.LSC
Subjects: Transgender children.; Transgender youth.; Gender identity; Child rearing.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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