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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
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When Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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
Publisher
Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Accustomed to leaving her frail young son with her neighbor, Mitch, while she goes to work, Pearl, a teenage mother, one day does not return, leaving Mitch and Leonard alone to grow up together and to become an unusual family.
Author
Series
The shadow volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"A rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death, and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface. Nettie Lonesome lives in a land of hard people and hard ground dusted with sand. She's a half-breed who dresses like a boy, raised by folks who don't call her a slave but use her like one. She knows of nothing else. That is, until the day a stranger attacks her. When nothing, not even a sickle to the eye can stop him, Nettie stabs him through the heart...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican--but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael's coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs--and the Black Flamingo is born. Told with raw honesty, insight, and lyricism, this debut explores the...
15) Camo girl
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A poignant novel about a biracial girl living in the suburbs of Las Vegas examines the friendships that grow out of, and despite, her race.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
'Ben and Beatriz' is a Latinx, queer retelling of Shakespeares 'Much Ado About Nothing', set in the early days of the Trump presidency. A queer, biracial young woman must untangle her complicated relationship with the scion of a wealthy, white dynasty, in what becomes a complex and nuanced rumination on race, colourism, class, sexuality, and privilege. For fans of 'Ties That Tether', 'Honey Girl', and 'You Had Me at Hola'.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
20) The Flowers
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Sonny Bravo is a tender, smart Mexican American who has come to live ath The Flowers, where he moved when his troubled and too beautiful mother Silvia remarried an Okie contractor named Cloyd Longpre. Sonny spends most of his day tending to the building and trying to save what's good in his world.
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