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41) Mending horses
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2014.
Language
English
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Free and on his own, Daniel Linnehan is nearly sixteen in 1839 when he joins Jonathan Stocking and Billy, a girl hiding from her abusive father, in peddling goods in New England.
42) Four-Four-Two
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English
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Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
43) True son
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Series
Psi chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Republik prepares to mount another attack when Taemon's deception is revealed, a situation that further strains his bond with archon unit leader Gevri.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 7
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
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In Mississippi in the early 1900s, ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
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English
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Dara Palmer dreams of being an actress, but when she doesn't get a part in the school play she wonders if it's because of her different looks as an adopted girl from Cambodia, so she becomes determined not to let prejudice stop her from being in the spotlight.
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2001.
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English
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In rural Georgia during World War II, twelve-year-old Ramona Louise determines to do everything to help her beloved older sister Georgie keep the family together after the death of their parents, even to keeping a secret which could destroy their close relationship.
48) Perfect
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Flawed (Cecelia Ahern) volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Since Celestine, eighteen, was declared a public menace, she's been on the run with Carrick, the one person she can trust, but she has a secret that may save all of those branded Flawed.
49) Meena
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Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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The children of Fly Street fear and taunt their elderly neighbor Meena, thinking she is a witch, but when they meet her granddaughter and taste her cherry pie, they learn the truth.
50) Divali rose
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[2008]
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English
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Ricki is looking forward to Divali, the Hindu "Festival of Lights." But when he breaks one of the special rosebuds that his grandfather planted, he must find courage to confess what he has done.
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Pepita books volume 2
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Español
Description
Pepita does not like the color pink and is dismayed to learn that it is the favorite color of the pink little girl who moves in next door.
53) The Sky blues
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[2021]
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Sky, openly gay but under the radar, decides to make a splashy Promposal but his plans are leaked by an anonymous, homophobic hacker, moving his classmates to help him expose the perpetrator.
54) Sincerely Sicily
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Sixth-grader Sicily Jordan learns to use her voice and to find joy in who she is--a Black Panamanian fashionista who rocks her braids with pride--while confronting prejudice both in the classroom and at home.
55) Mi amigo Juan
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Pub. Date
2006.
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Español
Description
Jack the blackbird and Jim the seagull become friends, but Jack is sad that the other seagulls do not seem to like him.
56) The land
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Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 8
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Paul-Edward, the son of a part-Indian, part-African slave mother and a White plantation owner father, finds himself caught between the two worlds of his parents as he pursues his dream of owning land in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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English
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It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by the racism and homophobia of those around them.
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In 1952 eleven-year-old Azalea is sent to Paris Junction, Arkansas, to help out her grandmother who has injured her foot, but does not really seem to want her help; Billy Wong is a Chinese-American boy whose uncle owns the local grocery store, in town to attend the "white" school, since the Chinese mission school has closed, but frustrated by the overt prejudice of the local children--and over the summer the two begin to forge a friendship.
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Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.
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