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Author
Series
Unusual chickens volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
Author
Series
Animal Rescue Team (Sue Stauffacher) volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Keisha and her family's animal rescue center face more challenges involving a baby crow in a mailbox and a skunk found in the nearby community garden.
23) Oreo
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Oreo, a biracial black girl from Philadelphia, searches for her Jewish father in New York City, navigating the labyrinth of sound studios, brothels, and subway tunnels of Manhattan in a journey of self-discovery.
24) Sincerely Sicily
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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.
"From debut author Tamika Burgess comes the captivating and empowering story of Sicily Jordan—a Black Panamanian fashionista who rocks her braids with pride—who learns to use her voice and take pride in who she is while confronting prejudice...
25) Dreamer
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Kaepernick Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This honest, engrossing graphic memoir tells the story of professional athlete and activist Akim Aliu's incredible life as a hockey prodigy in Canada. Akim Aliu ― also known as “Dreamer” ― is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community,...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Quiara Alegria Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced in her grandmother's tight South Philly kitchen, "frizzy hair cut short, bangs teased into stiff clouds, sweat glistening in the summer fog, pamper-butt babies weaving between legs." Quiara was awed by her aunts and uncles and cousins, but haunted by the secrets of the family and the unspoken stories of the barrio -- even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixth-graders Lauren and Tara have always done everything together so it is only natural that they both try out for their middle school musical play, about an "all-American" girl in 1958; Tara gets the lead role, as usual, because in the teacher's mind Lauren, half-Jewish and half-Chinese, does not fit the image of all-American girl--Lauren is hurt but resolved to support her friend, but her two grandmothers are furious and they intend to do something...
Author
Series
Mysterium (Julian Sedgwick) volume 3
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"To discover the truth behind his parents' deaths, Danny must travel with the avant-garde Mysterium circus to Berlin, while assassins chase them and a traitor lurks among the group"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Two months before he died of cancer, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side, to reveal a secret he had kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. His daughter Bliss learned that her WASPy, privileged Connecticut childhood had come at a price. Ever since his own parents, New Orleans Creoles, had moved to Brooklyn and began to "pass" in order to get work, Anatole had learned to conceal his...
Author
Series
Marisol McDonald volume 3
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"A spunky, bilingual, multiracial girl finds her own way to conquer her fear of the nighttime monster that mysteriously appears in her home. Includes author's note and glossary"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Having accidentally killed her mother's birds throughout her childhood, Ava Sing Lo volunteers to help rescue poisoned birds, while Helen, Ava's mother, remembers the time she was forced into prostitution on a segregated American army base.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using marriage to link communities and protect people within circles of kin. These family circles took in European newcomers who followed the fur trade into Indian Country from the Great Lakes to the Columbia...
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
I Was Their American Dream is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents' ideals, learning to code-switch between her family's Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and...
39) All my friends
Author
Series
Eagle Rock trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Middle-schooler Bina has everything she's ever wanted. She has new friends and a new band whose song is about to be featured on her favorite television show. But being in the spotlight is hard. When Bina and her band are offered a record deal, her parents are not thrilled. Now, Bina is barely speaking to her mom and dad. To make matters worse, Bina and her best friend, Austin, are still awkward around each other after their failed first date. Can...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz is torn between two worlds, passing for white while living in Harlem, being called Jewish while attending her mother's Baptist church, and experiencing first love while watching her parents' marriage crumble.
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