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Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2001
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.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
43) Internment
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
387 pages, 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
138 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her beloved grandmother, Nana, dies, non-religious twelve-year-old Caroline becomes curious about her mother's Jewish ancestry.
47) Linked
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...
Author
Series
Thorndike Press large print The literacy bridge
Legacy of Orisha volume Book 1
Legacy of Orisha volume 1
Legacy of Orisha volume Book 1
Legacy of Orisha volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Zelie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
49) Land of promise
Author
Series
Publisher
Nelson
Pub. Date
[c1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
228p illus
Language
English
Description
Laura and the other inhabitants of Mansfield, Missouri, face the problems of racism and a clash of cultures when Chinese immigrants try to settle in the pioneer community
50) The land
Author
Publisher
Phyllis Fogelman Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After the Civil War, Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, six Muslim teens are falsely accused of an alleged attack on a Los Angeles beach and must trust or turn their backs on each other to prove their innocence.
52) Poppy's return
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
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
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
218 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In Georgia during the summer of 1976, Gabriel, a white boy who is being bullied, and Frita, an African American girl who is facing prejudice, decide to overcome their many fears together as they enter fifth grade.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
218 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.
56) The last human
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After machines take control of Earth, following the extinction of humans, twelve-year-old robot XR 935A confronts its prejudices about humans and begins to reconsider its own existence within robot society after discovering and befriending a twelve-year-old human girl.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
Author
Series
Faithgirlz! volume Sophie 4
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sophie's friendship fiasco: When Sophie's efforts to protect her friends from a group of mean-spirited popular girls lead to misunderstandings at home and at school, she turns to Jesus for help. Sophie and the new girl: As the Corn Flakes and other members of the Film Club work on a school project about Cuban refugees in the 1980s, a newcomer's prejudices hurt Maggie and challenge Sophie's ability to understand and practice Jesus' teachings.
Author
Series
Publisher
Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Joseph McCoy plans a secret project to help save an all-black Civilian Conservation Corps camp from being forced out of town in 1935 Elsinore, California"--