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324) The runaways
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Anita lives in Karachi's biggest slum. Her mother is a maalish wali, paid to massage the tired bones of rich women. But Anita's life will change forever when she meets her elderly neighbour, a man whose shelves of books promise an escape to a different world. On the other side of Karachi lives Monty, whose father owns half the city and expects great things of him. But when a beautiful and rebellious girl joins his school, Monty will find his life...
326) A Tiny Piece of Sky
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In 1939 Hangerstown, Maryland, eleven-year-old Frankie faces suspicion that her German-born father is a Nazi spy.
327) Wide awake
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In the not-too-distant future, when a gay Jewish man is elected president of the United States, sixteen-year-old Duncan examines his feelings for his boyfriend, his political and religious beliefs, and tries to determine his rightful place in the world.
328) Homestretch
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Five months after losing his mother, seventeen-year-old Gas runs away from an abusive father and gets a job working at an Arkansas race track, surrounded by the illegal Mexican immigrants that he and his father blame for her death.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"It's the 1980's. Mia and her best friend, Lara, have known each other since kindergarten. But even though they both live in the same cul-de-sac in the coastal fishing town of Prince Rupert, Mia's life is very different from her non-Indigenous, middle-class neighbour.... Their differences never matter to the two friends, but Mia begins to notice how people treat her differently just because she is Indigenous. Teachers, shopkeepers, even Lara's parents...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1774 Williamsburg, Virginia, Felicity helps the irritable Mrs. Burnie do laundry and learns a secret that seems to explain her behavior. Includes notes on the history of eyeglasses and instructions for making a pair of lorgnettes, glass lenses attached to elegant handles.
Author
Pub. Date
©2013.
Description
Sri Lanka erupted into violence in the 1980s, with people identifying themselves as Tamil or Sinhalese, Hindu or Buddhist, Burgher or Muslim--the conflicts brewed over language policies, territories and curfews. Against this backdrop of sociopolitical unrest, Freeman sets her second novel. The inhabitants of Sal Mal Lane, like a constellation of stars, orbit around the Herath family, whose house is in the middle of the street and whose matriarch embraces...
333) Four-four-two
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
Author
Series
Monster High (Lisi Harrison) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Always overshadowed by her six brothers and her fab friends, Clawdeen Wolf plans to finally strut her stuff in the spotlight at her upcoming Sweet Sixteen bash. But after The Ghoul Next Door goes viral, it's into the woods for the family Wolf. Clawdeen goes stir crazy lying low at her family's B&B with her annoying brothers until Lala shows up to keep her company. But is the vamp flirting with Claude?"--Jacket.
336) The moved-outers
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Description
After the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor in 1941, life changes drastically for eighteen-year-old Sumiko Ohara and her family when they are sent from their home in California to a series of relocation camps.
337) Leap of faith
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Ernesto thinks he recognizes Cruz as the person fleeing from the scene of a recent robbery, but he trusts his friend Paul's word that Cruz was not involved, until a second robbery results in a shooting.
338) Time out
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In his small Georgia town, Barclay Elliot is basically a legend. Here basketball is all that matters, and no one has a bigger spotlight than Barclay. Until he decides to use the biggest pep rally in the town's history to come out to his school. And things change. Quickly.
340) Finding my place
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After moving to an affluent suburb of Denver in 1975, ninth-grader Tiphanie feels lonely at her nearly all-white high school until she befriends another "outsider" and discovers that prejudice exists in many forms.