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2) The land
Author
Publisher
Phyllis Fogelman Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
375 p.: 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biracial girl finally gets the chance to meet the African American side of her family"--
4) What lane?
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
125 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Biracial sixth-grader Stephen questions the limitations society puts on him after he notices the way strangers treat him when he hangs out with his white friends and learns about the Black Lives Matter movement.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistance to change as they try to make a home for themselves. Includes author's note.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ella seeks information about her father while enjoying a visit with her mother, a jazz singer, in Boston in 1944, then returns to the harsh realities of segregated, small-town South Carolina.
7) Adrift
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The resilience of two cousins is tested when one of them is lost at sea and washes up on a deserted island while the other remains at home, holding on to the belief that her beloved cousin is still alive.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1980 before she starts junior high school in Santa Rosa, California, Tracy, who was adopted from Vietnam when she was six years old, finds an old ammo box with a dog tag and picture that bring up painful memories for both her Vietnam-veteran father and her.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Girls' League, while her parents and neighbors are struggling through World War II, working for India's independence, and trying to stay on their farmland"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Simon is obsessed with aliens. The ones who take people and do experiments. When he's too worried about them to sleep, he listens to the owls hoot outside. Owls that have the same eyes as aliens-dark and foreboding. Then something strange happens on a camping trip, and Simon begins to suspect he's been abducted. But is it real, or just the overactive imagination of a kid who loves fantasy and role-playing games and is the target of...
11) Sincerely Sicily
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Sicily Jordan learns to use her voice and to find joy in who she is--a Black Panamanian fashionista who rocks her braids with pride--while confronting prejudice both in the classroom and at home.
12) Mirror girls
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.
13) The braid girls
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Maggie's world is turned upside down when she learns that her father has a second daughter, Callie. Maggie may need to get used to having a new sibling in her home, but she won't let Callie get in the way of her summer plans to start the Braid Girls with her best friend Daija. Daija has always felt like she had a sister in Maggie. So she can't let Maggie's new half-sibling, Callie, take her place or interfere with their new business. She needs the...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
494 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
Author
Series
[A Charlie Thorne novel] volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Decades ago, Albert Einstein devised an equation that could benefit all life on earth -- or destroy it. Fearing what would happen if the equation fell into the wrong hands, he hid it. But now a diabolical group known as the Furies is closing in on its location. In desperation, a team of CIA agents drags Charlie into the hunt, needing her brilliance to help them find it first -- even though this means placing her life in grave danger. In a breakneck...
16) Aloha, Kanani
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Kanani's cousin from New York comes to Hawaii for a visit, Kanani is excited to show her what life is like in a friendly Hawaiian town, but Rachel's homesickness and a silly mistake threatens to ruin their friendship.
17) Gravity
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gravity Delgado has been breaking records and competitors since she started boxing with a legendary coach at age twelve, and now will reach the Olympics if her home life and romance do not distract her.
18) New from here
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.