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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold-until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post...
2) Tolerance
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Company
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the nature of tolerance, which means accepting people no matter what they look like, how they live, what they like, or how they do things.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a world where the pale-skinned Naughts are discriminated against by the politically and socially powerful dark-skinned Crosses, teenager Callum -- a Naught -- and Sephy -- a Cross -- test whether their love is strong enough to survive their society's racism.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Yes, this really is a kids book about racism. Inside, you’ll find a clear description of what racism is, how it makes people feel when they experience it, and how to spot it when it happens. This is one conversation that’s never too early to start, and this book was written to be an introduction for kids on the topic."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
7) Dig
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Inhabiting a knot in the middle of a large oak tree, the Gray squirrel family becomes increasingly frustrated and reclusive as the oak tree welcomes chipmunks, beavers and birds, before an act of heroism imparts lessons in diversity and acceptance.
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Practicing his welcome growl when Vampire's old house on the block is bought by another family, Monster is startled by the arrival of a non-monster and rallies the other monster neighbors to unite against the newcomer.
10) Witness
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
11) Poppy's return
Author
Series
Poppy and friends volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 11
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grader Alice has lots of questions about sex, relationships, prejudice, and change.
"In this charming repackage from a beloved series, Alice doesn’t feel like fitting in. Alice McKinley likes her life, but she senses things are changing. She gets a little bored by her best friends Elizabeth’s and Pamela’s obsession with clothes and makeup. She’s just not that interested. And though she is very interested in her boyfriend, Patrick,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Juliet, a self-identified queer, Bronx-born Puerto Rican-American, comes out to her family to disastrous results the night before flying to Portland to intern with her feminist author icon--whom Juliet soon realizes has a problematic definition of feminism that excludes women of color"--
Author
Series
Monster High (Lisi Harrison) volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Cleo was the queen bee of the RADs, the normies, and everyone in between at Merston High. But now new girls Frankie Stein and Melody Carver seem to be taking over.
16) Beauty woke
Author
Publisher
Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Beauty, who is of Taino Indian, African, and Boricua heritage, was taught to be strong and proud, but hatred toward people who look like her bruises her heart until her community opens her eyes to the truth.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In Groupthink, his final book, the late, eminent journalist and bestselling author Christopher Booker seeks to identify the hidden key to understanding much that is disturbing about the world today. With reference to the ideas of a Yale professor who first identified the theory, and to the writings of George Orwell from whose 'newspeak' the word was adapted, Booker sheds new light on the remarkable -- and worrying -- effects of 'groupthink', and its...
18) Hidden roots
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Although he is uncertain why his father is so angry and what secret his mother is keeping from him, eleven-year-old Sonny knows that he is different from his classmates in their small New York town.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.
20) No way out
Series
Fox film noir volume 13
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
When a young African-American doctor operates on two white brothers brought in for gunshot wounds, it sets off a chain of violent confrontations between a vicious psychopath, his gang and the black community. Includes original theatrical trailer.
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