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21) Camo girl
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A biracial girl living in the suburbs of Las Vegas examines the friendships that grow out of, and despite, her race.
22) Blended
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Language
English
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Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
24) Crouching tiger
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
When Ming Da's Chinese grandpa comes to visit, he overcomes his initial embarrassment at his grandfather's traditions and begins to appreciate him.
25) Endangered
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"When Lauren (Panda), a teen photoblogger, gets involved in a deadly game, she has to protect the classmates she despises"--
29) The colors of us
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature.
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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While spending two weeks at Wilderness Camp on the Boston Harbor Islands, thirteen-year-old Ollie--short, half Vietnamese, asthmatic, and overweight--must find and protect hidden pirate treasure from those who would steal it for themselves.
31) Celia's robot
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Surprised by her scientist father's gift of a robot for her birthday, ten-year-old Celia comes to appreciate its help in organizing her chaotic day-to-day life until it suddenly mysteriously disappears.
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Goldie Vance novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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In early 1960s Florida, sixteen-year-old Goldie, an aspiring detective at the Crossed Palms Resort Hotel, investigates when a diamond-encrusted swim cap goes missing during the filming of a movie at the resort.
34) Border crossing
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
Manz, a troubled fifteen-year-old, ruminates over his Mexican father's death, his mother's drinking, and his stillborn stepbrother until the voices he hears in his head take over and he cannot tell reality from delusion.
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Series
Animal Rescue Team (Sue Stauffacher) volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Chaos ensues when Keisha's father brings an escaped alligator home to Carter's Urban Rescue, but it gets out of the bathroom while Grandma is guarding it.
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