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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
When her reluctance to treat the newborn of a white supremacist couple results in the child's death, a black nurse is placed on trial and is aided by a white public defender who urges her not to bring up race in the courtroom.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In "one of Morrison's most haunting works" (New York Times) the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story of a mother and a daughter—a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still
3) Ghost boys
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till.
6) Dear Martin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
10) Prairie lotus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistance to change as they try to make a home for themselves.
12) The tryout
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
As one of the only Asian Americans in her school, Christina confronts both well-meaning ignorance and cruel racism, but in middle school fitting in is important, which is why she and her best friend Megan are both excited and nervous to try out for the popular cheerleading squad.
13) Hearts unbroken
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Louise Wolfe breaks up with her first boyfriend after he makes a racist remark about her Native American heritage, and begins covering the multicultural casting of the new school play and the racial hostilities it has exposed.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Fleeing her native Sweden in 1905 to escape a life of poverty, Hanna Renström is widowed twice before becoming the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, where she is isolated by racism while bonding with the prostitutes and discovering an inner strength that leads to a boundary-breaking decision.
18) X: a novel
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the childhood of the civil rights leader to his imprisonment at age twenty, where he found the faith that would lead him to his path towards activism and justice.
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