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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more"--
2) Family tree
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a white couple gives birth to a baby with distinctly black features, a family is thrown into turmoil.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother.
8) Pretty
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Despite the confident, stylish, and easygoing attitude she portrays at school, Sophie is struggling at home as her mother's addiction worsens.
Author
Series
All these monsters volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While trying to expose a private security firm hired by the government to weaponize scrabs, Clara and Team Seven face their biggest threat yet--their own demons.
10) Half and half
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
At Seattle's annual Folk Fest, twelve-year-old Fiona and her older brother are torn between trying to please their Chinese grandmother and making their Scottish grandparents happy.
11) Pretty fierce
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being jumped by a hit man, Kaia's secret life as the child of professional assassins is revealed to her clueless boyfriend Oliver as the two go on the run looking for Kaia's missing parents.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
14) Endangered
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When Lauren (Panda), a teen photoblogger, gets involved in a deadly game, she has to protect the classmates she despises"--
16) The colors of us
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2002, c1999
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.
17) The way of love
Author
Series
Willamette brides volume 2
Language
English
Description
"In 1879, Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor and use her gift to help the native populations. When she meets Andrew Gratton, an injured riverboat captain, a friendship grows between them-but will secrets and rising tensions prevent them from finding true happiness?"--
18) Full cicada moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.
19) Prairie lotus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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. Includes author's note.
20) Good job, Kanani
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When a ten-year-old Hawaiian girl spends more time selling "shave ice" and less time surfing, her relationship with her best friend begins to unravel.