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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in a West Country farming village, The House of Broken Bricks lays bare the complexities of day-to-day life for a mixed-race family. Jess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in a city where she easily blends in into a creaking house on a floodplain where predatory birds hover over fields, eels coil in the river mud, buses run twice a day, neighbors barter honey for cider and no one looks like...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 610L
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" --
Author
Series
Willamette brides volume 2
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?"--
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."--
7) New people
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple, "King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom." Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
"Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths." --
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Stillman's war, Sheriff Ben Stillman's deputy and best friend, Leon McMannigle, shoots and kills a young woman but Ben takes it upon himself to explain the incident to her family. His explanation falls on deaf ears, however, and old man Hollister sends his wild sons to exact revenge. Wounded and on the run, McMannigle is alone and being hunted through the mountains until Stillman gets wind of his friend's fate.
Blood trail of the Horsetooth widow...
11) Blended
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sarah and Angelina Grimke--the Grimke sisters--are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most influential of the antebellum era, are still read today. Yet retellings of their epic story have long obscured their Black relatives. In The Grimkes, award-winning historian Kerri Greenidge presents...
13) Ben and Beatriz
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Beatriz Herrera is a fierce woman who will take you down with her quick wit and keen intellect. And after the results of the 2016 election worked hard to erase her identity as a queer biracial woman, she'd be right to. Especially if you come for her sweet BFF cousin, Hero. Beatriz would do anything for her, a loyalty that lands Beatriz precisely where she doesn't want to be: spending a week at the ridiculous Cape Cod mansion of stupid-hot playboy...
15) The colors of us
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature.
16) Light in August
Author
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man.
Author
Series
Keeper of night volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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." --
18) Whale talk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students. Features a new afterword by Chris Crutcher.
19) Prairie lotus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of...
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