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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Afrofuturism Fiction
Read-Alikes for 'A Court of Thorns and Roses'
Read-Alikes for 'The Empyrean' by Rebecca Yarros
Read-Alikes for 'A Court of Thorns and Roses'
Read-Alikes for 'The Empyrean' by Rebecca Yarros
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Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zelie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were targeted and killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Now, Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue...
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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An African-American family living in Mississippi during the Depression is faced with prejudice and discrimination that its children do not understand.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. She's tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments even the physical violence she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. So she's built up protective walls and refuses to let anyone close enough to hurt her. Instead, she drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother
5) Linked
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
When swastikas begin appearing all over town, Link, Michael, and Dana, the only Jewish girl in town, must face crimes both past and present to find the truth.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"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"--
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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When Carey Parker, a genderqueer teen who dreams of being a diva like their hero Mariah Carey, is cast as the female lead in the school musical, they must fight against discrimination and injustice from their closed-minded school administration.
8) Dig
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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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
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help a Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by the racism and homophobia of those around them.
10) Internment
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
"A terrifying, futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
11) Bear and Bee
Author
Series
Bear and Bee volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A hungry bear discovers that bees are not terrible monsters who never share their honey.
12) 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
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.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Mr. Lincoln, "the coolest principal in the whole world," discovers that Eugene, the school bully, knows a lot about birds, he uses this interest to help Eugene overcome his intolerance.
17) The jacket
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An incident at school forces sixth grader Phil Morelli, a white boy, to become aware of racial discrimination and segregation, and to seriously consider if he himself is prejudiced.
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