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181) Play the game
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In the game of life, sometimes other people hold all the controls. Or so it seems to VZ. Four months have passed since his best friend Ed was killed by a white man in a Brooklyn parking lot. When Singer, the man who killed Ed, is found dead in the same spot where Ed was murdered, all signs point to Jack, VZ's other best friend, as the prime suspect. VZ's determined to complete the video game Ed never finished and figure out who actually killed Singer....
182) Troublemaker
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
On the first night of rioting in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, Jordan's father leaves to check on the family store, spurring twelve-year-old Jordan and his friends to embark on a dangerous journey through South Central and Koreatown to come to his aid, encountering the racism within their community as they go.
183) Every body looking
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"'Ada' means first daughter, means oldest girl, means pressure. 'Ada' means you are expected to do a lot of things because the honor of this family rests on your back. When Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a Historically Black College, it's the first time she's ever been so far from her family - and the first time that she's been able to make her own choices and seek her place in this new world. As she stumbles deeper into the world of dance...
185) Land of the cranes
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture poems...
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Since childhood, Yolanda Vance has forged her desire to escape poverty into a laser-like focus that took her through prep school and Harvard Law. So when her prestigious New York law firm is raided by the FBI, Yolanda turns in her corrupt bosses to save her career--and goes to work for the Bureau. Soon she's sent undercover at Red, Black, and Green--an African-American extremist activist group back in her California college town. They claim a biotech...
187) Unsettled
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollisPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Young Nurah reluctantly moves with her family from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, but, after some ups and downs, begins to feel at home.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In August 1965, twelve-year-old Eden's older cousin from Mississippi comes to visit her in Los Angeles, and while the Watts Riots erupt around them, they continue their investigation of the disappearance of Winter's father ten years ago.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
This is the story of 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, all while 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 runs into financial trouble, and her older...
190) Chasing Lucky
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
"Budding photographer Josie Saint-Martin has spent half her life with her single mother, moving from city to city. When they return to her historical New England hometown years later to run the family bookstore, Josie knows it's not forever. Her dreams are on the opposite coast, and she has a plan to get there. What she doesn't plan for is a run-in with the town bad boy, Lucky Karras. Outsider, rebel...and her former childhood best friend. Lucky makes...
191) Illegal
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 490L
Language
English
Description
"Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life, the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli, and finally out to the merciless sea. But with every...
192) Treasonous tycoon
Author
Publisher
Fitzroy Books, an imprint of Regal House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In 1930s Pittsburgh, orphaned Lewis Carter and his ragtag gang of friends face new dangers and challenges when their hideout is threatened by floods and people experiencing homelessness start mysteriously disappearing from the streets. As the gang goes all out to investigate, the evidence once again seems to implicate the steel tycoon who had Lewis's father killed.
193) The breakthrough
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Two-Moon is a twentieth century Indian fighting the same enemy that plagued his ancestors - the greedy white man. Through his own inner drive and force of character, and equipped with a far better education than the usual reservation Indian, Charlie determines to escape from the prison of his color. He has always dreamed of being a farmer in the community where he grew up. He enlists in the Army, saves several thousand dollars from his...
194) Goodnight racism
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and text show children the language to dream of a better world.
195) Brown Boy Nowhere
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
What's the problem? Sixteen-year-old Filipino American Angelo Rivera knows. Life sucks. He's been uprooted from his San Diego home to a boring landlocked town in the middle of nowhere. Behind him, ocean waves, his girlfriend, and the biggest skateboarding competition on the California coast. Ahead, flipping burgers at his parents' new diner and, as the only Asian in his all-white school, being trolled as "brown boy"; by small-minded, thick-necked...
196) Impossible
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 520L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
It was just a minute, but it changed everything. Jemma is finally free of her abusive ex-boyfriend, Razor. All she wants now is to be a good mom to her baby daughter. But one night she decides to go out, just for a minute, to get diapers and ice cream. On the way back she witnesses the drive by shooting of a kid, Kwame, who lives in the same building as her. The driver is Razor. Jemma is terrified. If she tells anyone what she saw, they'll know she...
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Language
English
Description
After traveling to Tijuana, Mexico, Noemi and her mother are denied entry at the border and must find the refugee in charge of the notebook, an unofficial ledger of those waiting to cross into the United States. Includes author's note.
198) Lunch every day
Author
Publisher
KO Kids Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Based on the true story of a boy named Jimmy who takes another kid's lunch at school every day. But through the power of kindness he is transformed into a compassionate human being."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling Joanna Ho, of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners, and award-winning educator Liz Kleinrock comes a powerful companion picture book about adoption and family. A young girl who is a transracial adoptee learns to love her Asian eyes and finds familial connection and meaning through them, even though they look different from her parents'. Her family bond is deep and their connection is filled with love. She wonders about her...
200) Counting scars
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 400L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, sixteen-year-old Adele finds herself in a complicated love triangle."--
With her mother in rehab and her estranged father unable to take immediate custody, Adele Reimer is spending two weeks at a youth reform camp. Adele's only goal at the camp is to avoid any trouble. When she meets Fergus and Andy, Adele soon finds herself pulled into a complicated love triangle-- and a dangerous situation...
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