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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg’s life feels like the moment after the final guest leaves the party. It's the summer of 1967, and her big sister has eloped with a young man from India following Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that says banning interracial marriage is unconstitutional in all 50 states. Ariel's Jewish parents don't approve, and soon, her sister disappears into the bohemian New York City of the 1960s. Back home...
342) Fair ball
Author
Series
The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Derek is juggling finals and a baseball tournament during the last few weeks of school, but when his friend Dave starts ignoring him, Derek's perfect summer starts to look less fun"--
343) The happy pumpkin
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A delightful, heart-warming story about a perky pumpkin who just wants to fit in this Halloween. Halloween is approaching and it's time for the kids to pick out their pumpkins. The pumpkins have been looking forward to this all year, and are excited to meet their new owners. But when everyone is being chosen, there is one pumpkin who feels left out. He is the smiliest and happiest pumpkin of them all, but of course nobody wants a happy pumpkin on...
344) Tracks
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
An Irish boy and a Chinese boy become friends, despite their mistrust and prejudices, while working on the Transcontinental Railroad in 1866.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1930s Liverpool, England, Bronwen and Dylan live with their widowed mother, who works long hours doing other people's washing, and even though she sometimes must leave the children alone in the house, she cautions them not to speak to the O'Rileys next door, who go to a different church.
346) Abuelita y yo
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
El tiempo en casa con Abuelita es divertido. Incluye comer panqueques, saltar charcos y pintarse las uñas. Mientras que las salidas para hacer compras no siempre son divertidas. En el supermercado y en el bus la gente es impaciente y desconfiada. A veces alzan la voz y gritan. Esto entristece, enfada y atemoriza a la niña protagonista de la historia. Ella decide nunca más salir de su casa. Esto cambia cuando en un instante la pequeña se da cuenta...
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Years after a violent New England raid by the Redcoats and their Revolutionary War Indian allies, two families, one that suffered during that raid and one with an Indian mother and Patriot father, become neighbors and must deal with past trauma and prejudices before they can help each other in the present. Based on the author's family history. Includes historical notes and notes on the Pequot Indians.
348) Viva, Rose!
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In El Paso, Texas, in 1915, fourteen-year-old Rose Solomon seeks her missing brother's return and inadvertently ends up running with Pancho Villa and his revolutionary army.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Truffle, a small dog, was born and raised on a farm, where he was put in charge of keeping the rats out of the barn, and the badgers out of the fields. Truffle enjoyed his work, and he took pride in doing it well. The only difficulty he had was with cats. Nothing irritated Truffle more than the sight of a cat sleeping on the job while the mice ate their fill in the corncrib. Truffle would howl loudly, waking the cat, which then would dash off with...
350) Wind on the river
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Private Allen of South Carolina, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, decides to switch his allegiance to the Union and is sent to fight "savages" in Dakota Territory, where he confronts his prejudices and learns what heroism really means.
351) Shylock's daughter
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jessica, who longs to be free of the restrictions of her father and life in the Jewish ghetto of sixteen-century Venice, falls in love with a Christian aristocrat and must make choices which will affect her whole family. Inspired by Shakespeare's play The merchant of Venice.
Author
Pub. Date
c2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When a Purple flower suddenly sprouts next to a Blue, all sorts of confusion ensues. Fortunately, Momma Blue is there to remind everyone about the beauty of diversity, including how the wind, rain, sun and bees treat all flowers the same regardless of the color of their petals or the size of their stems. Award-winning author Julia Cook shares a timely and valuable lesson about appreciating differences and embracing diversity in life and in friendships.--Publisher....
Author
Pub. Date
[2020].
Description
Unconscious bias affects everyone. It can look like the disappointment of an HR professional when a candidate for a new position asks about maternity leave. It can look like preferring the application of an Ivy League graduate over one from a state school. It can look like assuming a man is more entitled to speak in a meeting than his female junior colleague. Meant for every manager who wants to understand and move past their own preconceived ideas,...
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In 1885, a lonely illegitimate American boy and a lonely Chinese American boy develop an unlikely friendship in the midst of prejudices and racial tension in their coal mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming.
356) Baby & Solo
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Joel's new job at the video store is just what the therapist ordered. But what happens if the first true friend he's made in years finds out about What Was Wrong With Him? Seventeen-year-old Joel Teague has a new prescription from his therapist--a part-time job--the first step toward the elusive Normal life he's been so desperate to live ever since The Bad Thing happened. Lucky for Joel, ROYO Video is hiring. It's the perfect fresh start--Joel even...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"¿Por qué es la tierra tan importante para la familia de Cassie? Los acontecimientos de un año agitado--el año de los hombres de la noche y de los incendios, el año en que una muchacha blanca humilló a Cassie en público porque era negra--sirvieron para que Cassie se diera cuenta de que tener un lugar propio constituye el alma de la familia Logan. El valor y el orgullo de los Logan se los da la tierra, porque sin importar cuánto los puedan...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Polly Alden, a young California-bound Arkansas emigrant, falls in love with Tom Langford, a Mormon boy she meets in the settlements of Utah Territory. Caught between the fear and hatred of the persecuted Saints for the emigrants, and the hostility of the emigrants toward Mormons who will not replenish their dwindling supplies, the young lovers defy mistrust and opposition as they aspire to a life together. Animosity between the emigrants and the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
360) Annie's war
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1946, imaginary conversations with President Truman help ten-year-old Annie cope with having to live with her grandmother in Walla Walla, Washington, her uncle's prejudice toward her grandmother's black tenant, and her intense desire for news of her father, a pilot in the Army Air Corps who was reported missing in action.