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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A PRINTZ MEDAL WINNER!
A MORRIS AWARD WINNER!
AN AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD YA HONOR BOOK!
A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK
An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
Soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground.
"One of this year's most buzzed about young adult novels." —Good Morning America
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When the coronavirus hits Hong Kong, ten-year-old Knox Wei-Evans's mom makes the last-minute decision to move him and his siblings back to California, where they think they will be safe. Suddenly, Knox has two days to prepare for an international move-and for leaving his dad, who has to stay for work. At his new school in California, Knox struggles with being the new kid. His classmates think that because he's from Asia, he must have brought over...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Prairie Lotus is a powerful, touching, multilayered book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an education, becoming a dressmaker in her father's shop, and making at least one friend. Acclaimed, award-winning author Linda Sue Park has placed a young half-Asian girl, Hanna, in a small town in America's heartland, in 1880. Hanna's adjustment to her new surroundings, which primarily means negotiating the townspeople's almost...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. Emotionally intense, psychologically compelling, and deeply researched, Learned by Heart is an extraordinary...
Author
Series
Willamette brides volume 2
Language
English
Description
"In 1879, Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor and use her gift to help the native populations. When she meets Andrew Gratton, an injured riverboat captain, a friendship grows between them--but will secrets and rising tensions prevent them from finding true happiness?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her African father. In middle age, after separating from her husband and with her daughter all grown up, she finds herself alone and wondering who she really is. Her mother's death leads her to find her father's student diaries, chronicling his involvement in radical politics in 1970s London. She discovers that he eventually became the president - some would say the dictator...
9) August Snow
Author
Series
August Snow volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the wealthy suburbs to the remains of Detroit’s bankrupt factory districts, August Snow is a fast-paced tale of murder, greed, sex, economic cyber-terrorism, race and urban decay.
10) Blended
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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.
11) The colors of us
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Lena is going to paint a self portrait and wants to use brown paint for her skin. But when Lena and her mother take a walk through their neighborhood, Lena sees that there are many different shades and tones of brown.
12) Dead of winter
Author
Series
August Snow volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Authentico Foods Inc. has been a part of Detroit's Mexican town for over thirty years, grown from a home kitchen business to a city-block-long facility that supplies Mexican tortillas to restaurants throughout the Midwest. Detroit ex-cop and Mexican town native August Snow has been invited for a business meeting at Authentico Foods. Its owner, Ronaldo Ochoa, is dying, and is being blackmailed into selling the company to an anonymous entity. Worried...
13) Sincerely Sicily
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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.
14) Aloha, Kanani
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When the tropical paradise of Kauai, Hawaii, fails to impress her cousin from New York City, ten-year-old Kanani wonders why nothing seems to make her happy.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
August in Paris. This holiday with her professor parents should be a dream trip for budding art historian Khayyam Maquet-- American, French, Indian, Muslim. But her maybe-ex-boyfriend is ghosting her, she might have just blown her chance at getting into her dream college, and all she really wants is to be back home in Chicago figuring out her messy life. Two hundred years before Khayyam's summer of discontent, Leila is struggling to survive and keep...
Author
Series
Momotaro volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Xander discovers and learns to use the fantastic powers that are his birthright in order to save his father. Based on Japanese mythology.
18) Dead man's trail
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A mysterious gunman saves Yakima Henry and his partner from attack and dies in the process, leaving behind a large poke of gold. Yakima vows to take the gold to the shooter's family but his way is made difficult by snow and predators, both human and animal.
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