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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more"--
2) Family tree
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• A superbly crafted novel, Family Tree asks penetrating questions about family and the choices people make in times of crisis.
“Family Tree is warm, rich, textured, and impossible to put down.”
—Nora Roberts
For as long as she can remember, Dana Clarke has longed for the stability of home and family. Now she has married a man she adores, whose heritage...
“Family Tree is warm, rich, textured, and impossible to put down.”
—Nora Roberts
For as long as she can remember, Dana Clarke has longed for the stability of home and family. Now she has married a man she adores, whose heritage...
Author
Series
What we saw at night volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After glimpsing an older man in a room with a dead girl, sixteen-year-old Allie, who has a life-threatening allergy to sunlight, discovers she is the lone key to stopping a serial killer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS
In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World).
“Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison
In...
In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World).
“Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison
In...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil"--‡c Provided by publisher.
7) The land
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 8
Publisher
Phyllis Fogelman Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In 1879, Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor and use her gift to help the native populations. When she meets Andrew Gratton, an injured riverboat captain, a friendship grows between them-but will secrets and rising tensions prevent them from finding true happiness?"--
Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor at Willamette University's medical college so she can use her gift for healing to help those in need, especially...
Author
Series
Unusual chickens volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
13) Blended
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
14) New from here
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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 who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
16) Half and half
Author
Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
At Seattle's annual Folk Fest, twelve-year-old Fiona and her older brother are torn between trying to please their Chinese grandmother and making their Scottish grandparents happy.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts...
Author
Series
Belles of London volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"London's daring new equestrienne finds love and an unexpected ally in her fight for independence in the strong arms of Victorian society's most sought after and devastatingly handsome half-Indian tailor. Evelyn Maltravers knows exactly how little she's worth on the marriage mart. As an incurable bluestocking from a family tumbling swiftly toward ruin, she knows she'll never make a match in a ballroom. Her only hope is to distinguish herself by making...
19) Prairie lotus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistance to change as they try to make a home for themselves. Includes author's note.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn't so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her is pretty cute. Maybe Clara actually feels invested in her dad's business. What if taking this summer seriously means that Clara...
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