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Shiloh quartet volume 3
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.
4) Night golf
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Despite being told that only whites can play golf, James becomes a caddy and is befriended by an older African American man who teaches him to play on the course at night.
Author
Series
Legacy of Orisha volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Zélie, 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.
Author
Series
Under the never sky trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Aria and Perry, two teens from radically different societies--one highly advanced, the other primitive--hate being dependent on one another until they overcome their prejudices and fall in love, knowing they can't stay together"--
8) Witness
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Language
English
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A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
9) Bear and Bee
Author
Series
Bear and Bee volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Description
A hungry bear discovers that bees are not terrible monsters who never share their honey.
Author
Series
Under the never sky trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"In their effort to reach the fabled Still Blue, Aria and Perry will have to rescue Cinder, defeat Sable and Hess, and unite the Dwellers and the Outsiders once and for all"--
11) Big
Author
Language
English
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2 x 2 List 2024 (Age 2 - Gr. 2)
ALA Youth Media Awards 2024 - Children
Black History Month - Children
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2024 - Children
Black History Month - Children
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Description
Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is.
12) Dinosaur trouble
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Pub. Date
2008, 2005.
Language
English
Description
Young dinosaurs Nosy, a pterodactyl, and Banty, an apatosaurus, become friends, despite their parents' prejudices.
13) Internment
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Language
English
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"A terrifying, futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
14) Archon
Author
Series
Psi chronicles volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Taemon struggles with the fallout from his role in ending the city of Deliverance's ability to use telekinetic powers and embarks on a dangerous journey with Amma to find his missing father in a Republik.
16) Slam!
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Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.
19) Saving Sky
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Language
English
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Description
In an America that has suffered continual terrorist attacks since 9/11, seventh-grader Sky stands up for what is right and helps a classmate of Middle Eastern descent, although doing so places her and her family at great risk.
20) Iggie's house
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When an African-American family with three children moves into the white neighborhood, eleven-year-old Winnie learns the difference between being a good neighbor and being a good friend.
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