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Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023, 2019.
Description
"As tough as it is to imagine, this book really does explore racism. But it does so in a way that's accessible to kids. Inside, you'll find a clear description of what racism is, how it makes people feel when they experience it, and how to spot it when it happens. Covering themes of racism, sadness, bravery, and hate. This book is designed to help get the conversation going. Racism is one conversation that's never too early to start, and this book...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Spending the summer in Florida with her stepfather's sister who operates a "meals-on-wheels" van, twelve-year-old Chloë and her aunt become involved in a controversy surrounding the wearing of T-back bathing suits.
43) Passing strange
Author
Series
Generation dead volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Karen, a zombie teenager, attempts to pass as human and prove her zombie friends' innocence when they are accused of murder.
44) Saving Shiloh
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Double Take is a fact-packed look at how science is tackling stereotypes. In the intermediate grades, students are likely to encounter and recognize all kinds of stereotypes. Our brains constantly use categories to sort and label the things (and people) around us -- both with good results and frightening ones. This book explores how we all use stereotypes and how science can help us to build more equal societies, where fewer stereotypes exist and...
49) The star fisher
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee and her family find the adjustment hard when they move from Ohio to West Virginia in the 1920s.
50) The cholo tree
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Recovering from a shooting and stereotyped as a Chicano gangbanger, fourteen-year-old Victor Reyes loves reading books, has a genius girlfriend and an art teacher who mentors and encourages him to apply to art schools, but Victor cannot seem to overcome society's expectations for him.
51) Trouble
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A squirrel sees nothing but trouble in a bear newcomer who has terrible teeth, knife-like claws, and an oversized appetite, while her pet mouse perceives a new neighbor who is just trying to be friendly.
52) Best of all
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In a village where everyone has been carved from wood, an uppity Miss Bess Stovall claims her maple "ancestree" is superior until the day a shunned willow fellow saves her life.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"Gone is the era of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, when news programs fought to gain the trust and respect of a wide spectrum of American viewers. Today, the fastest-growing news programs and media platforms are fighting hard for increasingly narrow segments of the public and playing on old prejudices and deep-rooted fears, coloring the conversation in the blogosphere and the cable news chatter to distract from the true issues at stake. Using...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Iris opens her eyes to hard truths and the power of her voice when her father dies of AIDS in 1987"--
1987. Iris tries to act normal at school, going through the motions and joking around with her friends, but it feels like she'll never laugh again. How can she, when her dad is dying of a virus that is off-limits to talk about? When she knows that soon all she will have left of her kind, loving dad are memories, photos, and a binder full of the...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When the school in Mayfield Crossing is closed, the students are sent to larger schools, where the black children encounter racial prejudice for the first time. Only baseball seems a possibility for drawing people together.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
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...
58) The friendship
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
59) Archon
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old Taemon struggles with the fallout from his role in ending the city of Deliverance's ability to use telekinetic powers and embarks on a dangerous journey with Amma to find his missing father in a Republik.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
A year after 9/11, Muslim teenager Shirin has completely withdrawn from social life, until she meets Ocean James in her biology class and is tempted to actually let her guard down.
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