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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
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Language
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• A superbly crafted novel, Family Tree asks penetrating questions about family and the choices people make in times of crisis.
“Family Tree is warm, rich, textured, and impossible to put down.”
—Nora Roberts
For as long as she can remember, Dana Clarke has longed for the stability of home and family. Now she has married a man she adores, whose heritage...
“Family Tree is warm, rich, textured, and impossible to put down.”
—Nora Roberts
For as long as she can remember, Dana Clarke has longed for the stability of home and family. Now she has married a man she adores, whose heritage...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Violet is smart, funny and biracial. Her African American father died before she was born, and she has grown up with just her white mother and white older sister. Now that she is eleven, she feels it is time to learn about her African American heritage, so she seeks out her paternal grandmother.
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Language
English
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After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.
6) Whale talk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
11) Sankofa: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her African father. In middle age, after separating from her husband and with her daughter all grown up, she finds herself alone and wondering who she really is. Her mother's death leads her to find her father's...
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
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The raw and gripping memoir of a Black physician who confronts his past mistakes and relationships as he learns to find his own path forward. At first glance, Anthony Chin-Quee looks like a traditional success story: a smart, ambitious kid who grew up to become a board-certified otolaryngologist--an ear, nose, and throat surgeon. Yet the truth is more complicated. As a self-described "not white, mostly Black, and questionably Asian man," Chin-Quee...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna spends the summer with her grandparents in the tiny, remote village of Yucuyoo, Mexico, learning about her grandmother's life as a healer, her father's decision to leave home for the United States, and her own place in the world.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Things aren't looking good for half-white, half-Indian Yakima Henry. Badly injured in an ambush, he managed to gun down the son of the most powerful family this side of the Missouri River. He doesn't know who'll get to him first: the gunslingers or the wolves. Against her better judgment, Aubrey Coffin drags the dangerous-looking hombre home. Now Yakima's fighting spirit must grow stronger, because an innocent woman is about to be caught in the cross-fire....
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.
Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: when her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. When she travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time, Leigh is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds...
Author
Publisher
Liveright
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sarah and Angelina Grimke -- "the Grimke sisters" -- are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most influential of the antebellum era, are still read today. Yet retellings of their epic story have long obscured their Black relatives. In The Grimkes, award-winning historian Kerri K. Greenidge...
19) Double play
Author
Series
Baseball genius volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When New York Yankee James "JY" Yager tries to show that he can still hit in the majors without the help of twelve-year-old Jalen's baseball genius, Jalen focuses on his own baseball career as he tries to carve out a spot with the Rockton Rockets.
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