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81) Sankofa: a novel
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up, and her mother—the only parent who raised her—is dead. Searching through her mother's belongings one day, Anna finds clues about the African father she never knew. His student diaries chronicle his involvement in radical politics in 1970s London. Anna discovers that he eventually became the president—some...
82) The takedown
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"In this near-future mystery, Kyla Cheng, the smartest, hottest, most popular student at her Brooklyn high school, gets taken down a peg by a faked sex tape that goes viral"--
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In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut. In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book....
84) In search of us
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. When Marilyn was seventeen, she fell in love with Angie's father, James, who was African-American. Marilyn has always told her he died before she was born. When Angie discovers evidence of an uncle she's never met she starts to wonder: What if her dad is still alive, too? So she sets off on a journey to find him, hitching a ride to LA from her...
85) Up from the sea
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A novel in verse about the March 2011 tsunami that sent Japan into chaos, told from the point-of-view of Kai, a biracial teenaged boy.
86) Riot
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and an African father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against African-Americans and wealthy "swells" of New York City.
87) Let us descend
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Let us descend,' the poet now began, 'and enter this blind world.'" --Inferno, Dante Alighieri Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver...
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Series
Charlie Thorne volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
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.
90) Pride
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as...
91) The likes of me
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Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In 1918, having run away from the Washington State lumber camp she calls home, a fourteen-year-old half-Chinese albino named Cordy makes her way to Seattle and finds work in a carnival.
92) The savage breed
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Yakima Henry westerns volume 5
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"Yakima Henry may be tougher than anyone else in the Arizona Territory-- as a half-white, half-Indian man, he has to be. So when a pack of thieving curs leaves him in rough country minus one prized horse and two well-worn boots, he aims to get back what's his. The hell Yakima raises in the process lands him in jail, but opportunity is about to spring him out. Wealthy Cleve O'Shannon and his lovely wife, Ashley, have a proposition for Yakima. Cleve's...
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A baby is born to an English civil servant and a Hindu bride. When the truth is known about his heritage his father ejects him from his house. He is sold to a pair of eunuchs and taken to a backwater state in the Punjab. He escapes to Bombay and meets a drunken Englishman and reinvents himself as Jonathan Bridgeman
94) Bad kitty
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Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
While vacationing with her family in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Jasmine stumbles upon a murder mystery that she attempts to solve with the help of her friends, recently arrived from California.
95) Band of angels
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Description
Amantha Starr, born and raised by a loving father on a plantation in pre-Civil War Kentucky, embarks on a lifelong search for answers about her tangled past when she learns, upon her father's death, that her mother was a slave and that she, too, is about to be sold into servitude.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In the early 1700s, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl, hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family year-round, but when he is accused of stealing, Suzette must use her knowledge of both French and Ojibwa ways to find the real thief.
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Keeper of Night volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In this riveting sequel to The Keeper of Night, a half Reaper, half Shinigami soul collector must defend her title as Japan's Death Goddess from those who would see her--and all of Japan--destroyed." --
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Along the Intracoastal waterways of North Florida, Daniel and Aubrey navigated adolescence with the electric intensity that radiates from young people defined by otherness: Aubrey, a self-identified "Southern cracker" and Daniel, the mixed-race son of Jamaican immigrants. When the news of Aubrey's death reaches Daniel in New York, years after they'd lost contact, he is left to grapple with the legacy of his precious and imperfect love for her. At...
100) Dead river killer
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Trapped in the forsaken town of Dead River, where the townsfolk are out for his blood and for his gold, half-breed Yakima Henry, desperate to find a doctor to care for his wounded friend, must weather the oncoming storm, as well as a killer.
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