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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Banned Books Week
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Challenged in Washoe County Libraries
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Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.
A dangerous forbidden romance rocks a Texan oil town in 1937, when segregation was a matter of life and death. A Top Ten Most Challenged Book of the Year "This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Oscar, an overweight Dominican from a New Jersey ghetto, dreams of becoming a writer and finding love, but a Fuku curse has haunted his family for generations, and may well prevent him from attaining his desires.
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"Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it"--
6) Middlesex
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 31
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English
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Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
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"Named a Must Read for the Summer The New York Times • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • Time • AARP • Town & Country • St. Louis Post-Dispatch "McBride’s pages burst with life... This endlessly rich saga highlights the different ways in which people look out for one another." —Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW) "The interlocking destinies of [McBride’s] characters make for tense, absorbing drama and, at times, warm, humane...
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When her new husband artist takes is arrested and imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising comfort in a longtime friendship, only to encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her life when her husband's sentence is suddenly overturned.
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But...
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Envisioning a summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.
The heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings his girlfriend home to meet the family, without telling her that they're loaded.
10) From from: poems
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A collection of poems reflects the experiences of Asian Americans and the problem of creating an Asian American identity while influenced by Westerners' ideas about Asians.
A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (NPR). “Where are you from . . . ? No―where are you from from?” It’s a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying you’ll never belong...
11) Winter garden
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The dying wish of a loving father ignites a family drama that brings two sisters and their acid-tongued, Russian-born mother together in a story that reaches back to WWII Leningrad.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men -- bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can...
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“[A] suspense-filled page-turner about murder, repentance, and forgiveness.” Viet Thanh Nguyen. “A marvel.” Michael Connelly. "A touching portrait of two families bound together by a split-second decision.” Attica Locke. In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as its been since the unrest of the early 1990s. But Grace Park and Shawn Matthews have their own problems. Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious,...
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2019.
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"Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in...
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Kate Moore novels volume 1
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English
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"An international spy thriller about a former CIA agent who moves with her family to Luxembourg where everything is suspicious and nothing is as it seems"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Hispanic Heritage Month Fiction
Nevada Reading Week Grades 8-12
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Hispanic Heritage Month Fiction
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"A book of essays spanning the author's career a[nd] reflecting upon the various homes she's lived in around the world"--
"From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street: a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango...
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Darius the Great volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
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2024.
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English
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''A New York Times Editor's Pick A People Magazine Best Book to Read in February A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of 2024 "My Side of the River is both fierce and poetic. It brilliantly reframes border writing while embracing nature and familial history. There are moments one sees greatness appear. This is one of those moments." and#x2015;Luis Alberto Urrea, New York Times bestselling author of Good Night, Irene Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals...
19) Promise boys
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Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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2024 ALA Youth Media Awards
Dark Academia
Summer Reading Challenge 2024 - Teens
Teen Fiction SRC 2025 Color Our World : Colorea Nuestro Mundo
Dark Academia
Summer Reading Challenge 2024 - Teens
Teen Fiction SRC 2025 Color Our World : Colorea Nuestro Mundo
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J.B., Ramaon, and Trey, students of the Urban Promise Prep School, must follow the school's strict rules, but when their principal is murdered, the three boys must band together to track down the real killer before they are arrested.
"The Hate U Give meets One of Us Is Lying in Nick Brooks's Promise Boys, a trailblazing, blockbuster mystery about three teen boys of color who must investigate their principal’s murder to clear their own names―for...
20) Born in shame
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1996.
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English
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes the final novel in the Irish Born Trilogy—following Born in Fire and Born in Ice. Shannon Bodine’s life revolves around her job as a graphic artist at a New York ad agency. But her world turns upside down when she learns the identity of her real father: Thomas Concannon. Obeying her late mother’s wishes, Shannon reluctantly travels to County Clare. There, amid the lush landscape...
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