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61) Abuelita and Me
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : color illustrations
Language
English
Description
In this touching, empowering picture book debut, a girl and her beloved abuelita lean on each other as they contend with racism while running errands in the city.
Spending time at home with Abuelita means pancakes, puddle-jumping, and nail-painting. But venturing out into the city is not always as fun. On the bus and at the grocery store, people are impatient and suspicious-sometimes they even yell. Sad, angry, and scared, the story's young narrator...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
"Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains,...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the very white, very Christian world of Atlanta society in 1958, New York transplant Ruth decides not to tell her new high school friends and boyfriend that she is Jewish, but when a violent act rocks the city, Ruth must figure out where her loyalties lie.
64) Rust in the root
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
439 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided - between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. And everyone knows the future is industry and technology - otherwise known as Mechomancy - not the traditional mystical arts. Laura disagrees....
65) Project Mulberry
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Julia Song and her friend Patrick would love to win a blue ribbon, maybe even two, at the state fair. They've always done projects together, and they work well as a team. This time, though, they're having trouble coming up with just the right project. Then Julia's mother offers a suggestion: They can raise silkworms, as she did when she was a girl in Korea.
Patrick thinks it's a great idea. Of course there are obstacles-for example, where will they...
66) Molly's pilgrim
Author
Series
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Told to make a doll like a pilgrim for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly's Jewish mother dresses the doll as she herself dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom--much to Molly's embarrassment.
67) New boy
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Rob Garrett wants nothing more than to escape the segregated South and prove himself. But in late 1950s Virginia, opportunity doesn't come easily to an African American. So Rob's parents take the unusual step of enrolling their son in a Connecticut boarding school, where he will have the best education available. He will also be the first student of color in the school's history. No matter- Rob Garrett is on his way. But times are...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Stillwater, Mississippi, in 1955, thirteen-year-old African American Rose Lee Carter looks to her family and friends to understand her place in the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement.
69) Night on fire
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When thirteen-year-old Billie Sims learns that the Freedom Riders, a civil rights group protesting segregation on buses in the summer of 1961, will be traveling through Anniston, Alabama, she thinks change could be coming to her stubborn town. But what starts as angry grumbles soon turns to brutality, and Billie is forced to reconsider her own views"--
Author
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
In 1945, thirteen-year-old Levi Battle travels to find the father he has not seen in three years, going from Chicago to segregated North Carolina and finally to Pendleton, Oregon, where he learns that his father's unit, the all-black 555th paratrooper battalion, will never see combat but finally has a mission. Includes historical notes.
71) I rise
Author
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Ayo has to decide whether to take on her mother's activist role when her mom is shot by police. As she tries to find answers, Ayo looks to the wisdom of her ancestors and her Harlem community for guidance"--
Ayo's mother founded the biggest civil rights movement to hit New York City in decades. Its called See Us and it tackles police brutality and racial profiling in Harlem. Ayo has spent her entire life being an activist and now,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Aladdin paperback edition.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.
Bad things happen in the heat, they say. Maxie knows all about how fire can erupt at a moments notice, especially now, in the sweltering Chicago summer of 1968. She is a...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
544 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Professor Pi Suleman is a black man from Memphis and proud of it. Still, he has to endure a lot as an adjunct professor at the city's prestigious University Along the Nile, a hard-earned career that is crushing his spirit. Pi is constantly forced to bite his tongue in the face of one of his tenured colleague's prejudice and microaggressions. At the same time, he's being blackmailed by a powerful UAN professor who threatens to claim he has assaulted...
Author
Publisher
Imbrifex Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A gritty but tender story about adolescence and racism set in the hills of western Virginia at the end of the Eisenhower years"--
"The gravy train hasnt stopped in the hollers of western Virginia for more than thirty years when Stony Shelor starts his junior year at Jubal Early High. Class divides and racism are still the hardened norms as the Eisenhower years draw to a close. Violence lies coiled under the calm surface, ready to strike at any time....
76) Hearts unbroken
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. She'd rather spend her senior year with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, an ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's inclusive approach to casting The...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Dakota Territory in 1880, Four Winds, a ten-year-old Lakota girl, is taken from her family to a boarding school, where she is taught English and expected to assimilate into white culture.
79) Different days
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rosie and her brother face homelessness in Honolulu when their parents, Americans of German descent, are interrogated and imprisoned as suspected spies after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Includes historical notes.
80) We own the sky
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's Maine, 1924, and the Ku Klux Klan is on the rise. Davy and Jo Michaud have been recently orphaned. Taken in by a distant relative-a famous aviator-they are now working with a group of stunt pilots who spend their time wing walking, leaping from plane to plane, and flying through fireworks! But though the stunts are dangerous, the real threat is building behind the scenes. The KKK is on the rise in Maine that summer, inspired by the racial fears...