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81) Response
Author
Pub. Date
c 2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When an African American high school student is beaten with a baseball bat in a white neighborhood, three boys are charged with a hate crime.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Khalil, a young Black boy, starts at a new school and is excited to join the basketball team--until he begins to experience and witnesses subtle and not-so-subtle forms of racism among his new teammates. Khalil struggles with how to react and stand up for himself and others against his new friends who have taken him in"--Amazon
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Sephy is a Cross -- a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a Naught -- a "colorless" member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood, but that's as far as it can go. In their world, Naughts and Crosses simply don't mix. Callum is a naught-a second-class citizen in a world run by the ruling Crosses. Sephy is a Cross, daughter of the man slated to become prime minister. In their...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
This book "tells the tale of Bigpaw, the biggest bear in Bear Country! Will Brother and Sister be able to convince their neighbors that he’s just a very large and friendly bear? This humorous holiday tale is a story about acceptance and making new friends!" --publisher's website
86) The star fisher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Joan is Chinese-American. That makes her and her family outsiders- so "different" that the narrow-minded townspeople think they belong in a zoo. How could that be? They live in America! She was born here. And she's going to fight to stay.
87) Borderline
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Despite the strained relationship between them, teenaged Sami Sabiri risks his life to uncover the truth when his father is implicated in a terrorist plot.
88) Crazy lady!
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
As he tries to come to terms with his mother's death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship with the neighborhood outcasts, an alcoholic and her retarded son.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.
Author
Series
Barely missing everything volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
"Three Mexican-Americans--Juan, JD, and Fabi--each try to overcome their individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
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...
94) Spotty
Author
Pub. Date
[1997], c1973
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Having been excluded from a party because his spots make him different, Spotty the bunny runs away from home.
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Marty and his best friend, Shiloh are on another adventure. Marty learns when a secret is too dangerous to keep, and that hate can spread like fire" --Provided by publisher.
99) Sacred shadows
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
When her German hometown becomes part of Poland after World War I, Lena, a young German Jew, struggles to come to terms with the anti-Semitism and anti-German hatred that seems to be growing around her.
100) The ape star
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Jonna lives in an orphanage whose manager is strict and obsessed with cleanliness. Like all the other children, Jonna has only one dream: to be adopted by a well-dressed mother who smells of perfume. But one day, a beat-up old car pulls up. The door opens and out step two thick hairy legs with muddy boots, followed by a belly as round as a barrel, and finally, a head like an overgrown pear. It’s a gorilla! Surely the orphanage won’t let a gorilla...
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