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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
It's 2002, a year after 9/11. It's an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who's tired of being stereotyped. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. She's tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments--even the physical violence--she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. So she's built up protective walls and refuses...
Author
Publisher
BG Records
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
After discussing the police shooting of a local Black man with their families, Emma and Josh know how to treat a new student who looks and speaks differently than his classmates. Includes an extensive Note to Parents and Caregivers that provides general guidance about addressing racism with children, child-friendly vocabulary definitions, conversation guides, and a link to additional online resources for parents and teachers.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
"When a young girl is asked where she's from--where she's really from--she's no longer as she was. She decides to turn to her dear abuelo for some help with this ever-persistent question. But he doesn't quite give her the answer she expects."--Page [2] of cover.
10) Clean getaway
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
"For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. But adventure quickly turns...
11) Anger Is a Gift
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
Moss Jeffries is many things―considerate student, devoted son, loyal friend and affectionate boyfriend, enthusiastic nerd. But sometimes Moss still wishes he could be someone else―someone without panic attacks, someone whose father was still alive, someone who hadn’t become a rallying point for a community because of one horrible night. And most of all, he wishes he didn’t feel so stuck. Moss can’t even escape at...
12) Flawed
Author
Series
Flawed (Cecelia Ahern) volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
"In a future society where 'flawed' people who have committed crimes are branded with an F, a young girl takes a stand"--
Author
Series
Publisher
KidHaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Microaggressions are brief, commonplace interactions with marginalized groups that convey a sense of hostility or disrespect toward that group. They may be small, but they can be upsetting, and they add up over time to have a cumulative negative effect on a person's mental health. Microaggressions are different for different groups, so it's difficult to make blanket statements about them; this is why an overview of all angles of this issue is so important....
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
Language
English
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Description
A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand.
Warmth, humor and hard times prevail as a black family struggles to maintain dignity and independence in Depression-era Mississippi.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva's feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever's history...
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 9
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
"Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated...
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki from Bainbridge Island, Washington is disgusted when he’s forced to become pen pals with Charlie Lévy of Paris, France―a girl. He thought she was a boy. In spite of Alex’s reluctance, their letters continue to fly across the Atlantic―and along with them, the shared hopes and dreams of friendship. Until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the growing Nazi persecution of Jews force them to confront the darkest...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"New historical fiction from a Newbery Honor–winning author about how middle schooler Ariel Goldberg's life changes when her big sister elopes following the 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision, and she's forced to grapple with both her family's prejudice and the antisemitism she experiences, as she defines her own beliefs. Twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg's life feels like the moment after the final guest leaves the party. Her family's Jewish bakery...
19) The pearl thief
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume Prequel
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she'd imagined won't be exactly like she anticipated. And once she returns to her grandfather's estate, a bit banged up but alive, she begins to realize that her injury might not have been an accident. One of her family's employees is missing, and he disappeared on the very same day she landed in the hospital. Desperate to figure out what happened,...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Join the Cat in the Hat as he hosts three different Dr. Seuss stories: the Sneetches, the Zax, and Green eggs and ham. Also includes Halloween is Grinch night, a story of a young Who-boy who is determined to save Whoville from the ill-tempered Grinch.