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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father, a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man, has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey, first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Boy Meets Girl. Boy Stalks Girl. Girl Gets Revenge. Logan thinks he and Delilah are meant to be. Delilah doesn't know who Logan is. Logan believes no one knows Delilah like him. He makes sure of it by learning everything he can by watching her through a hidden camera. Some might call him a stalker. Logan prefers to be called "romantic". Delilah is keeping secrets though, deadly ones. There's so much more to her than meets the eye. Logan is determined...
3) Double play
Author
Series
Baseball genius volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Jalen DeLuca and his hero New York Yankee James “JY” Yager must team up to prove themselves in this sequel to Tim Green and Derek Jeters New York Times bestselling novel, Baseball Genius. Jalen DeLuca loves baseball. Hes playing for his summer travel team and trying to win a regular spot in the rotation. But Jalens got more then talent on the field. Hes a baseball genius who can analyze and predict almost exactly what any pitcher is going to do...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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AANHPI Heritage Month for Teens
All Together Now - Ages 12-18
Art & Artists in Teen Fiction
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All Together Now - Ages 12-18
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Description
After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the beginning, there were three colors . . . Reds, Yellows, and Blues. All special in their own ways, all living in harmonyuntil one day, a Red says "Reds are the best!" and starts a color kerfuffle. When the colors decide to separate, is there anyting that can change their minds? A Yellow, a Blue, and a never-before-seen color might just save the day in this inspiring book about color, tolerance, and embracing differences.
7) 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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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...
9) Half outlaw
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Looking for the missing half of herself, a woman goes on one last ride with the motorcycle club that raised her and gets more than she bargained for. After the tragic death of her parents when she was just four years old, Raqi is sent to live with her uncle Dodge in Escondido, California. Taking after her Mexican father, Raqi immediately faces hostility from the members of Dodge’s all-White, one-percenter motorcycle club, the Lawless, and from...
10) Belle
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Although Dido Elizabeth Belle, an eighteenth-century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle and his wife, she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds.
11) 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
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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...
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