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Author
Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
African Americans had long faced racist obstacles to homeownership, but the social upheaval of the 1960s forced federal government reforms. In the 1970s, new housing policies encouraged African Americans to become homeowners. However, inclusion in the world of urban real estate was fraught with new problems. As new housing policies came into effect, the real estate industry abandoned its aversion to African Americans, especially Black women, precisely...
1862) Lion, lion
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy encounters a lion while trying to find his pet cat--meeting a number of other animals along the way.
1863) Dust child: a novel
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1969, sisters Trang and Quỳnh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village to work at a bar in Sài Gòn. Once in the big city, the girls learn how to speak English, and how to flirt with American GIs in return for money. As the war moves closer to the city, the once-innocent Trang gets swept up in an irresistible romance with a handsome and kind American helicopter pilot. Decades later, an American veteran, Dan,...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she's pretty sure she's cursed--no one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with love. But then a chance encounter with a pair of cute lion dancers sparks something in Val. Is it real love? Could this be her chance to break the family curse? Or is she destined to live with a broken heart forever?
1865) What was Reconstruction?
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Reconstruction -- the period after the Civil War -- was meant to give newly freed Black people the same rights as white people. And indeed there were monumental changes once slavery ended, but this time of hope didn't last long and instead, a deeply segregated United States continued on for another hundred years. Find out what went wrong in this fascinating overview of a troubled time"--
1867) Kween
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Soma Kear's verses have gone viral. Trouble is, she didn't exactly think her slam poetry video through. All she knew was that her rhymes were urgent. On fire. An expression of where she was, and that place...was a hot mess. Following her Ba's deportation back to Cambodia, everything's changed. Her Ma is away trying to help Ba adjust to his new life, and her older sister has taken charge. Meanwhile, Soma's trending video pushes her to ask if it's time...
1868) Mabuhay!
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"First-generation Filipino siblings, JJ and Althea, struggle to belong at school. But between the leftover Filipino food their mom packs for their lunches to having a last name that nobody can pronounce, any sense of belonging seems like a long shot. To make matters worse, they have to help their parents run the family food truck, dressing up as a dancing pig and passing out samples. And their parents are always drawing parallels between their poor...
1869) Shine on, Luz Véliz!
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old injured soccer player Luz has a hard enough time reframing her identity as a computer programmer, but when her Guatemalan half-sister moves in, she learns what it truly means to start over.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer's block, receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, how and why did he die?
1872) Fake ID
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"An African-American teen in the Witness Protection Program moves to a new town and finds himself trying to solve a murder mystery when his first friend is found dead"-- Provided by publisher.
1873) Dactyl Hill Squad
Author
Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In this alternative history it is the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive; but when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In a hilarious true story of a quarter-life crisis that led to love, adventure and a boatload of weirdness, the author shares his experiences living on a remote island in the Pacific, covering such topics as loincloth-tying, monkey-diapering and the effects of global capitalism of the island paradise of Yap.
1875) A place to belong
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.
1876) Joy ride
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Follows four Asian American friends as they bond and discover the truth of what it means to know and love who you are, while they travel through China in search of one of their birth mothers.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision to report the infamous phone call that led to presidential impeachment, tells his own story for the first time. HERE, RIGHT MATTERS is a stirring account of Vindman's childhood as an immigrant growing up in New York City, his career in service of his new home on the battlefield and at the White House , and the decisions leading up...
1879) Medgar Evers
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In a gripping memoir, the author, a vice president at Goldman Sachs, a rare Hispanic woman in a sea of suits and ties hiding a secret, tells her personal story of separation, grief and ultimate redemption, changing the perception of what it means to be an undocumented immigrant.
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