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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Alternating between present day and flashbacks, multiracial Filipina-American teen Marisol tries to figure out who she really is in the wake of her mother's sudden death.
Marisol and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end. When her mother dies suddenly, Marisol is left with no one to fight against, haunted by all the things that she both said and didn't say. When Marisol sleeps with her best friend's boyfriend---...
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Language
English
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It's the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he's sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly front and center, and no one is shy about making it known he's not welcome there. Enter Juniper Jones. The town's resident oddball and free spirit, she's everything the townspeople aren't--open, kind, and...
63) Summer Bird Blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Rumi Seto plans to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. When Lea dies in a car accident, her mother sends Rumi to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Struggling with the loss of her sister, abandoned by her mother, and without music in her life, Rumi turns to the friendship of a teenage surfer named Kai, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe. And Rumi is determined to write the song she and...
64) Summer people
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Language
English
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Description
"A young woman must uncover dark secrets and confront those she loves most to find the truth hidden in her community. Christmas Miller, from the town of Sweet Lake, New York, has just graduated high school and is looking forward to seeing her best friend, regular summer visitor Lexi. Their happy reunion is short-lived however, as they attend a heated town hall meeting on Sweet Lake's invasive algae problem where hostile, narrow-minded attitudes expressed...
65) The moon within
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Mexican Indian is uncomfortable about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body; she is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion--until she finds out that her best friend Magda is contemplating an even more profound change of life.
66) Mercury Boys
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Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Saskia Brown, an outsider at her new school, discovers that she can use liquid mercury to visit boys in daguerreotypes in her dreams, and soon classmates are doing the same, with terrible consequences.
After her parents' divorce and a cross-country move, Saskia Brown feels like an outsider at her new school: she's a transplant, biracial in a population of mostly white students. While visiting her only friend at her part-time library...
67) All my friends
Author
Series
Eagle Rock trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
186 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Fancy Pink is offered a record deal their parents say no, so they decide to make an album on their own, if they can raise enough money without raising their parents' suspicions.
Author
Series
Never after volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Filomena Jefferson-Cho and her friends, Jack Stalker, Alistair, and Gretel are once again in Never After, to help Gretel fulfill a promise to her father to recover the glass slipper he made for her cousin, Hortense, which was stolen by the cunning and manipulative Cinderella, who is determined to become Princess of Eastphalia--to do that the friends will have to infiltrate the castle, and, of course, avoid being eaten by monsters.
Author
Series
Infinity courts novel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Murdered on the way to her high school graduation party, eighteen-year-old Nami Miyamoto finds herself in an afterlife ruled by Ophelia, a virtual assistant planning to eradicate human existence.
Murdered on the way to her high school graduation party, Nami Miyamoto wakes up in a place called Infinity, where human consciousness goes when physical bodies die. Ophelia, a virtual assistant widely used by humans on Earth, has taken over the afterlife...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican--but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael's coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs--and the Black Flamingo is born. Told with raw honesty, insight, and lyricism, this debut explores the...
71) Mirror girls
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.
As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were separated after the lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now Charlie is a young Black organizer in Harlem, while white-passing Magnolia is the heiress...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
291, 21 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A biracial girl living in post-apartheid South Africa is determined to unveil the mystery of her white mother's hidden past"--
Annalisa, has had another vision: If Amandla wears a blue sheet her mother has loosely stitched as a dress and styles her normally braided hair in a halo around her head, Amandla's father will come home. Annalisa always speaks of her husband as if he was the prince of a fairytale, but in truth he's been gone since before...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can't read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder--especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who's half Indian and half Jewish like Maple herself--but words on the page just don't seem to make sense to her. Despite all Maple's clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading, her teacher is on to her, and now Maple has to repeat fifth grade....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
"Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. She goes with the flow--which is how she ends up singing in her friends' punk band as a favor, even though she'd prefer to hide at the merch table. Reggie is a D&D Dungeon Master and self-declared Blerd. He spends his free time leading quests and writing essays critiquing the game under a pseudonym, keeping it all under wraps from his disapproving family....
Author
Series
Charlie Thorne volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
392 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The CIA forces twelve-year-old Charlotte "Charlie" Thorne, a rebellious genius, to use her code-breaking skills on an epic global chase to locate Einstein's last equation before dangerous agents discover it and unlock the solution to harnessing energy.--
Decades ago, Albert Einstein devised an equation that could benefit all life on earth-- or destroy it. Now a diabolical group known as the Furies are hunting for the equation. In desperation, a team...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, un sello editorial de Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Primera edición.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
161 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
Asia, África, Europa: los ancestros de Antonio chocaron y se mezclaron en la hermosa isla de Cuba. El país lucha por independizarse de España. Los esclavos africanos y los chinos bajo servidumbre por endeudamiento son forzados a trabajar largas horas, rompiéndose el lomo en los campos de cultivo. Por eso Antonio se siente afortunado de haber conseguido trabajo como mensajero, haciendo que su rica mezcla cultural sea una ventaja. A traves de su...
77) Adrift
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The resilience of two cousins is tested when one of them is lost at sea and washes up on a deserted island while the other remains at home, holding on to the belief that her beloved cousin is still alive.
Author
Series
Lei volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Anna must dig deep into her Hawaiian roots in order to save her best friend and her island from an angry fire goddess.
12-year-old Lei is forced to spend summers in Hawaiʻi with her grandma who is determined to make sure she knows all her family's moʻolelo--stories the kids back home donʻt care about or believe. But after insulting Pele, the Goddess of Fire, she learns just how real these legends are when the goddess takes her...
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