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41) Sugar
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
42) Freedom Summer
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1964, Joe is pleased that a new law will allow his best friend John Henry, who is colored, to share the town pool and other public places with him, but he is dismayed to find that prejudice still exists.
43) Ball don't lie
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream.
44) Crow
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1898, Moses Thomas's summer vacation does not go exactly as planned as he contends with family problems and the ever-changing alliances among his friends at the same time as he is exposed to the escalating tension between the African-American and white communities of Wilmington, North Carolina.
45) School of Charm
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After her beloved father's death in 1977, eleven-year-old tomboy Chip tries to fit with her family of beauty queens, making unlikely new friends at Miss Vernie's unusual charm school in Mt. Airy, North Carolina.
46) Jackie's gift
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When young Steve, who is Jewish, tells his new neighbor, Jackie Robinson, that his family does not have a Christmas tree, Jackie brings one to his neighbors, not knowing that they celebrate Hanukkah instead of Christmas. Based on a true story.
47) Calico Girl
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Callie struggles to understand slavery when her stepbrother is sold away at the start of the Civil War, but is determined her whole family will be free one day. Includes historical notes.
48) How it went down
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
49) Yankee girl
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When her FBI-agent father is transferred to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, eleven-year-old Alice wants to be popular but also wants to reach out to the one black girl in her class in a newly-integrated school.
50) Fast break
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
51) Shame the stars
Author
Publisher
Tu Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the midst of racial conflict and at the edges of a war at the Texas-Mexico border in 1915, Joaquín and Dulceña attempt to maintain a secret romance in this reimagining of Romeo and Juliet"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Growing up in Louisiana in the late 1960s, where segregation and prejudice still thrive, two high school football players, one white, one black, become friends, but some changes are too difficult to accept.
55) Beautiful music
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Danny Yzemski is a husky, pop radio-loving loner balancing a dysfunctional homelife with the sudden harsh realities of freshman year at a high school marked by racial turbulence."--
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and soon finds herself with her mother and baby brother in Mexico.
57) Out of shadows
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1983, at an elite boys' boarding school in Zimbabwe, thirteen-year-old English lad Robert Jacklin finds himself torn between his black roommate and the white bullies still bitter over losing power through the recent civil war.
58) The summoner
Author
Series
Zora and me volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Zora navigates her showboating father's mayoral campaign before a lynch mob crosses the border into once-idyllic Eatonville to pursue a fugitive at the same time a grave robber exposes disturbing historical secrets"--
59) Brotherhood
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1867, and the South has lost the Civil War. Those on the lowest rungs, like Shad's family, fear that the freed slaves will take the few jobs available. In this climate of despair and fear, a group has formed. Today we know it as the KKK"--
60) Sylvia and Aki
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
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