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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Back to School Reads - MID
Black History Month - MID
If You Like Front Desk, Read These!
Womens History Month - MID
Black History Month - MID
If You Like Front Desk, Read These!
Womens History Month - MID
Description
Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she'd also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact, learn to run track, and have a cute boy see past her giant forehead.) But in junior high, it's like all the rules have changed. Now she's suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying she's not black enough. Wait, what? Shay's sister,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
What do you do when the world shuts down? A heartwarming story of friendship and overcoming adversity in a time of COVID, When the World Turns Upside Down is about community, giving back, and understanding the world around us through the power of generosity from debut middle grade author K. Ibura.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Historical Fiction - JF
If You Like Front Desk, Read These!
Native American Heritage - Juvenile & Middle Grade
If You Like Front Desk, Read These!
Native American Heritage - Juvenile & Middle Grade
Description
Regina Petit's family has always been Umpqua, and living on the Grand Ronde reservation is all ten-year-old Regina has ever known. Her biggest worry is that Sasquatch may actually exist out in the forest. But when the federal government signs a bill into law that says Regina's tribe no longer exists, Regina becomes "Indian no more" overnight--even though she was given a number by the Bureau of Indian Affairs that counted her as Indian, even though...
8) Kneel
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This fearless debut novel explores racism, injustice, and self-expression through the story of a promising Black football star in Louisiana.
9) Fast pitch
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Shenice Lockwood dreams of leading the Fulton Firebirds to the U12 softball regional championship. But Shenice's focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending-and family-name-ruining-crime may have been a setup. It's up to Shenice to discover the truth about her family's past-and fast-before secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever.
10) Fight back
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Aaliyah is inspired to stand up to a rise in Islamophobia after a terrorist attack at a concert, and searches for ways she and her friends can combat racism.
11) We own the sky
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
It's Maine, 1924, and the Ku Klux Klan is on the rise. Davy and Jo Michaud have been recently orphaned. Taken in by a distant relative-a famous aviator-they are now working with a group of stunt pilots who spend their time wing walking, leaping from plane to plane, and flying through fireworks! But though the stunts are dangerous, the real threat is building behind the scenes. The KKK is on the rise in in Maine that summer, inspired by the racial...
13) I rise
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: A heartbreaking and powerful novel about racism and social justice as fourteen-year-old Ayo has to decide whether to take on her mother's activist role when her mom is shot by police. As she tries to find answers, Ayo looks to the wisdom of her ancestors and her Harlem community for guidance.
14) Rust in the root
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided-between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. And everyone knows the future is industry and technology-otherwise known as Mechomancy-not the traditional mystical arts....
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Emma and Josh heard that something happened in their town. A Black man was shot by the police. "Why did the police shoot that man?" "Can police go to jail?" Something Happened in Our Town follows two families - one White, one Black - as they discuss a police shooting of a Black man in their community. The story aims to answer children's questions about such traumatic events, and to help children identify and counter racial injustice in their own lives....
19) True true
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Gil, a Black teen from Brooklyn, struggles to fit in at his primarily white Manhattan prep school, he wages a clandestine war against the racist administration, parents, and students, while working with other Black students to ensure their voices are finally heard.
20) Antiracist Baby
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Illustrations and rhyming text present nine steps Antiracist Baby can take to improve equity, such as opening our eyes to all skin colors and celebrating all our differences.
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