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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Professor Pi Suleman is a black man from Memphis and proud of it. Still, he has to endure a lot as an adjunct professor at the city's prestigious University Along the Nile, a hard-earned career that is crushing his spirit. Pi is constantly forced to bite his tongue in the face of one of his tenured colleague's prejudice and microaggressions. At the same time, he's being blackmailed by a powerful UAN professor who threatens to claim he has assaulted...
142) How we ricochet
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Betty, her sister and mother were all shopping at the mall when the shooting happened -- and although they all survived, none of them would be the same after. Betty watches her mother throw herself into activism and away from her family, while her outgoing sister becomes a shadow of her former self. Desperate for answers, Betty finds herself reaching out to the shooter's brother, but all it does is reveal that nothing in life is simple to understand....
143) The lies we tell
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"During her freshman year at college, Anna Xu investigates the unsolved on-campus murder of her former babysitter, as she and an old rival have to team up to look into the hate crimes happening around campus"--
144) Members only
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"First the white members of Raj Bhatt's posh tennis club call him racist. Then his life falls apart. Along the way, he wonders: where does he, a brown man, belong in America? Raj Bhatt is often unsure of where he belongs. Having moved to America from Bombay as a child, he knew few Indian kids. Now middle-aged, he lives mostly happily in California, with a job at a university. Still, his white wife seems to fit in better than he does at times, especially...
145) Stick with me
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-olds Izzy and Wren are thrown together by unusual circumstances, they find solace and solutions to nagging problems in their newly-formed friendship.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Minni lives in the poorest part of Mumbai, where access to water is limited to a few hours a day and the communal taps have long lines. Lately, though, even that access is being threatened by severe water shortages and thieves, who steal this precious commodity--an act Minni accidentally witnesses one night. Meanwhile, in the high-rise building where she started to work, water streams out of every faucet; there's even a rooftop swimming pool! Minni...
147) The earthspinner
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
148) Say it out loud
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Self-conscious of her stutter, Charlotte says nothing as her best friend is bullied, but as the school year goes on she realizes some things are worth speaking up for.
149) Indivisible
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Ma and Pa have been in the United States for so long, they have American-born children, and they're hard workers and good neighbors. When Mateo returns from school one day to find that his parents have been taken by ICE, he realizes that his family's worst nightmare has become a reality. Now Mateo must figure out who he is...
150) This town is on fire
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A page-turning YA contemporary novel about a Black teenager whose life is turned upside down when her white best friend becomes the latest "Becky" on the internet, and their town is left reeling from the publicity"--
A lot is up in the air in Naomi Henry's her spot as a varsity cheer flier, her classmates' reaction to the debut of her natural hair, and her crush on the guy who's always been like a brother to her. With so much uncertainty, she feels...
151) A wilder magic
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"For generations, Sybaline Shaw's family has lived in an enchanted valley in the Appalachian Mountains, using their magic to help grow the land. But now the government has built a dam that will force the Shaws to relocate, and they're running out of time before their home will be flooded"--
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It's just weeks after the historic Supreme Court marriage equality ruling, and all Sebastian Mote wants is to settle down. A high school art history teacher, newly single and desperately lonely, he envies his queer students their freedom to live openly the youth he lost to fear and shame. So when he runs into his childhood friend Oscar Burnham at a wedding in Washington, D.C., he can't help but see it as a second chance. Now thirty-five, the men...
153) 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...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of being sexually assaulted by her pastor, sixteen-year-old Amina struggles to regain her footing until she finds the strength within herself to confront her abuser in court.
"Sixteen-year-old Amina Conteh has always believed in using her words as her weapon--even when it gets her into trouble. After cursing at a classmate, her father forces her to volunteer at their church with Pastor Johnson. But Pastor Johnson isn't the holy man everyone...
155) Brown boy nowhere
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"What's the problem? Sixteen-year-old Filipino American Angelo Rivera will tell you flat out. 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,...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Brian has always been anxious, whether at home or in class or on the basketball court. His dad tries to get him to stand up for himself, and his mom helps as much as she can, but after he and his brother are placed into foster care, Brian starts having panic attacks. And he doesn't know if things will ever be 'normal' again ... Ezra's always been popular. He's friends with most of the kids on his basketball team--even Brian, who usually keeps to...
157) Some kind of hate
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When freshman Declan Taylor hurts his pitching arm he becomes mad at the world, soon getting caught up with a group of white supremacists and turning against his Jewish former friend, Jake--but when things turn violent Declan must figure out what he actually stands for.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
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Description
When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lotus Blossom, normally a peace-loving free spirit, must summon the courage to fight against a racist dress code and stand up for herself.
A talented violinist, Lotus Bloom just switched from her inner-city school to a fancy arts academy. Boys think it is hilarious to throw wads of paper into Lotus's hair. It starts as a prank, but escalates after she reports it to the administration-- and finds herself facing suspension. Now Lotus...
160) Down came the rain
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After Eliza's home in Houston is destroyed by Hurricane Harvey, she is forced to transfer to Southwest High School. Traumatized by the floods and anxious in her new surroundings, Eliza throws herself into environmental activism, even if it's against the wishes of her Big Oil dad. But when she meets Javi - a boy who has experienced climate-related trauma of his own - she's finally able to connect with someone over the devastating mental effects of...
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