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2) Fallout
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an unthinkable nuclear attack occurs in an alternate-reality 1962, Scott is forced into his father's bomb shelter with his family and neighbors, where they rapidly consume limited supplies and fear the worst about the fate of the world outside.
Author
Series
Front desk volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: A lyrical, heart-lifting love letter to black and brown children everywhere: reminding them how much they matter, that they have always mattered, and they always will, from powerhouse rising star author Tami Charles and esteemed, award-winning illustrator Bryan Collier.
Author
Series
Factory (Aya De Leon) volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: A Latina teen spy goes undercover as a white girl to stop a white supremacist terrorist plot in a fast-paced middle-grade debut from a seasoned author of contemporary crime fiction.
6) Darby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1926, nine-year-old Darby Carmichael stirs up trouble in Marlboro County, South Carolina, when she writes a story for the local newspaper promoting racial equality.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Indigo, an eighth-grade investigative reporter, is torn between fighting a racist school policy and keeping her friends--until she discovers a series of letters written by Black journalist and activist Ida B. Wells"--
10) Goodnight racism
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and text show children the language to dream of a better world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1953 ten-year-old Octobia May lives in her Aunt's boarding house in the South, surrounded by an African American community which has its own secrets and internal racism, and spends her days wondering if Mr. Davenport in room 204 is really a vampire--or something else entirely.
12) Boy bites bug
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
To defuse a situation between his best friend and a new student, Nolan eats a live stink bug, gaining popularity and a class project idea but, perhaps, losing a friend.
13) The hate u give
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a young girl is asked where she's from--where she's really from--she's no longer as she was. She decides to turn to her dear abuelo for some help with this ever-persistent question. But he doesn't quite give her the answer she expects."--Page [2] of cover.
18) The comeback
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Maxine Chen dreams of being a figure skating champion, but a remarkably talented new girl at the arena and a racist classmate at school test her resolve.--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When Marvin Johnson's twin, Tyler, goes to a party, Marvin decides to tag along to keep an eye on his brother. But what starts as harmless fun turns into a shooting, followed by a police raid. The next day Tyler is missing, and it's up to Marvin to find him. But when Tyler is found dead, a video leaked online tells an even more chilling story: Tyler has been shot and killed by a police officer. Terrified as his mother unravels, mourning a brother...
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