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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
When gambling debts and greed enter into the Butler household, Pierce Butler decides to host the biggest slave auction in American history and breaks a promise by selling Emma, his most-valued slave and caretaker of his children--a decision that brings about unthinkable consequences.
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Presents a graphic memoir detailing the author's experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the choices his family made in the face of institutionalized racism.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Lillian Firestone is Chinese, but the kids in her 1951 Kansas City high school can't separate her from the North Koreans that America is at war with. Sick of the racism she faces at school and frustrated that her adoptive white family just sees it as 'teasing,' Lily begins to search for her birth mother"-- Provided by publisher.
5) Anya's ghost
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anya, embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family and self-conscious about her body, has given up on fitting in at school but falling down a well and making friends with the ghost there just may be worse.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive Connecticut girls' school where she is the only black student, fourteen-year-old Lahni Schuler feels like an outcast, particularly when her parents separate, but after attending a local church where she hears gospel music for the first time, she finds her voice.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity: the Green Turtle was the first Asian American superhero. The comic had a short run before lapsing into obscurity, but Gene Luen Yang has revived this character in Shadow Hero, a new graphic novel that...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past.
11) True legend
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Drew "True" Robinson loves being the best point-guard prospect in high school basketball, but learns the consequences of fame through a former player, as well as through the man who expects to be his manager when True reaches the NBA.
12) Revolution
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Struggling to adapt within her newly blended family in 1964 Mississippi, young Sunny witnesses increasingly scary community agitation when activists from the North arrive in town to help register African Americans to vote.
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Soon after the mysterious and alluring Finn arrives at her family's home, sixteen-year-old Teagan Wylltson and her disabled brother are drawn into the battle Finn's family has fought since the thirteenth century, when Fionn MacCumhaill angered the goblin king.
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Teagan, Finn, and Aiden have made it out of Mag Mell alive, but the Dark Man's forces follow them to Chicago, where Tea's goblin cousins cause all sorts of trouble while she is torn between the life she wants and the future she is drawn to as a wild Stormrider, born to reign.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Traces the inspirational story of the Crispus Attucks High School Tigers basketball team and how they broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana to become state champions.
Author
Series
Door of no return volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When his brother represents his village in a festival contest, resulting in the unthinkable, 11-year-old Kofi finds himself fighting for his life, which sends him on a dangerous journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Moving abruptly from Seoul to Alabama, a Korean teen struggles in a hostile blended home and a new school where she does not speak English before forging unexpected connections in a local comic drawing class.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Petra Peña wants nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth....
20) Pinned
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Adonis is smart, intellectually gifted and born without legs; Autumn is strong, a great wrestler, and barely able to read in ninth grade--but Autumn is attracted to Adonis and determined to make him a part of her life whatever he or her best friend thinks.
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