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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Albie has never been the smartest, tallest, best at gym, greatest artist, or most musical in his class, as his parents keep reminding him, but new nanny Calista helps him uncover his strengths and take pride in himself.
Author
Series
Song of the current volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Caroline Oresteia, seventeen, finally has a chance to be a wherryman, she gets caught in a web of politics and lies, with her father's life at stake.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A sixteen-year-old biracial girl in rural Oregon in the 1920s searches for the truth about her father's death while avoiding trouble from the Ku Klux Klan in this YA historical novel inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Author
Series
Dragon warrior volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jade Society member Faryn Liu may be destined to command the Jade Emperor's army of demon-fighting dragons, but first she must complete a daring quest across San Francisco's Chinatown before the Lunar New Year.
11) The colors of us
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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.
12) Perfectly Parvin
Author
Series
Perfectly Parvin volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After being dumped at the beginning of freshman year, Iranian-American Parvin Mohammadi sets out to win the ultimate date to Homecoming"--
13) Court of Fives
Author
Series
Court of Fives trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a scheming lord tears Jess's family apart, she must rely on her unlikely friendship with Kal, a high-ranking Patron boy, and her skill at Fives, an intricate, multi-level athletic competition that offers a chance for glory, to protect her Commoner mother and mixed-race sisters and save her father's reputation.
Author
Series
Yakima Henry westerns volume 8
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When he is rescued by Aubrey Coffin, who, by saving him from a certain death, becomes a target for lawless desperadoes, half-white, half-Indian Yakima Henry tries to save this innocent woman from being caught in the cross fire.
15) Penumbra
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Beautician and undertaker's assistant Jade Dupree comes to the aid of her half-sister, Marlena, when the woman is found badly beaten and her young daughter kidnapped, embarking on an investigation with the assistance of a deputy sheriff to find her niece before it is too late.
Author
Series
Dog whisperer volume 1
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Emily's nightmares of drowning lead her to an injured dog near her family's coastal Maine home, and as she nurses him back to health, she becomes aware that they have a strange psychic connection.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A fierce coming-of-age novel about identity and the liberating power of drag follows the experiences of a mixed-race teen in London who struggles to connect with his heritage before coming out and establishing his place in Drag Society.
18) What lane?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Biracial sixth-grader Stephen questions the limitations society puts on him after he notices the way strangers treat him when he hangs out with his white friends and learns about the Black Lives Matter movement.
19) American ace
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Connor tries to help his severely depressed father, who learned upon his mother's death that Nonno was not his biological father, by doing research that reveals Dad's father was probably a Tuskegee Airman.
Author
Series
Cilla Lee-Jenkins volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A half-Chinese, half-Caucasian girl's 'memoir' about a new sibling, being biracial, and her path to literary greatness.
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