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Fiction
Gut Check by Eric Kester
Football runs in the Parker family's genes. Brett is the stoic star quarterback of Grayport's championship-winning team. His younger brother, Wyatt, is also on the field...just as Poncho Pete, their bumbling team mascot. Wyatt wants to play football beside his brother, if only to build a relationship with Brett before he leaves for college. But when Brett suffers a terrible concussion, Wyatt finds himself entangled in secrets more serious than any game. If that isn't enough to tackle, Wyatt's town is suddenly devastated by red tide, an environmental disaster that leaves Grayport's fish belly-up. As the team gains national attention, a big win could be enough to keep his town above water. A big loss, however, could drown them all...
The distance between Wyatt's head and heart grows as he struggles to support his brother, rebuild his town, and maybe even catch the attention of his longtime crush. Wyatt will just have to listen to his gut to find the way forward.
Eric Kester's young adult debut explores brotherhood, body image, and the complexities of masculinity with equal parts warmth and whip-smart humor.

Nonfiction
A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust by Albert Marrin
Janucz Korczak may be the most amazing person you've never heard of. A well-known pediatrician in his day, Korczak established an orphanage unlike any other, one run on the principle of honoring children as individuals.
Korczak was also a Polish Jew on the eve of World War II. As the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto closed around him and his children, he was offered several opportunities to flee. He turned them all down; he simply could not imagine leaving his orphans. Ultimately, he led their march to the deportation trains with stately dignity and perished by their side in Treblinka.
In this moving, powerful book, renowned nonfiction master Albert Marrin examines not just Janusz Korczak's life but also his belief that children are valuable in and of themselves: "not the people of tomorrow but people of today." He contrasts this with Adolf Hitler's destructive life and his ideology of children as tools of the state.
Throughout, Marrin draws readers into the Warsaw Ghetto. What it was like to live there. How it was run. How Jews within and Poles without responded. Who worked to save lives and who tried to enrich themselves on other people's suffering. And how one man came to represent the conscience and soul of humanity.
Filled with photographs, this is an unforgettable portrait of a man whose compassion in even the darkest hours reminds us what is possible.

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