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1) Seeing red
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English
Description
When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
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English
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The last thing Harry ?Dit? Sims expects when Emma Walker comes to town is to become friends. Proper -talking, brainy Emma doesn?t play baseball or fi sh too well, but she sure makes Dit think, especially about the differences between black and white. But soon Dit is thinking about a whole lot more when the town barber, who is black, is put on trial for a terrible crime. Together Dit and Emma come up with a daring plan to save him from the unthinkable....
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English
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Ten years after the Civil War's end, twelve-year-old Addy, abandoned by her parents, is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by schoolteacher Frank Russell and his bride, but when her father returns to claim her she must find another way to leave her O'Donnell past behind.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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2024-2025 OBOB 9th-12th Grade
For National Reading Month, Read Across America Titles
NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Young Adult Titles
For National Reading Month, Read Across America Titles
NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Young Adult Titles
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After spending two months in a juvenile detention center for a crime he did not commit, seventeen-year-old Andre Jackson returns home and tries to adapt to a Covid-19 world and find his missing best friend.
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English
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"When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past. Alternating chapters tell the story of William, another teen grappling with the racial firestorm leading up to the 1921 Tulsa race riot, providing some clues to the mystery"--
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 14
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English
Description
Eleven-year-old Mallory is excited when it looks like the eighth-grade girls will invite her to join their Baby-sitters Club and she might become best friends with the new African American girl in the neighborhood, but the club members have to learn some lessons in fairness first.
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English
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Diverse YA Reads
JCLS Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee: Great Reads
SO MLK Day--Further Reading for Teens
Talking about Race & Racism with Young People
JCLS Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee: Great Reads
SO MLK Day--Further Reading for Teens
Talking about Race & Racism with Young People
Description
Told from two viewpoints, Atlanta high school seniors Lena and Campbell, one black, one white, must rely on each other to survive after a football rivalry escalates into a riot.
13) Calico Girl
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English
Description
Callie struggles to understand slavery when her stepbrother is sold away at the start of the Civil War, but is determined her whole family will be free one day. Includes historical notes.
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English
Description
"In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed"--
15) Feathers
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English
Description
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
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Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
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English
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Description
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
18) Saving Savannah
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Language
English
Description
Savannah Riddle feels suffocated by her life as the daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington, D.C., until she meets a working-class girl named Nella who introduces her to the suffragette and socialist movements and to her politically active cousin Lloyd.
19) Blended
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English
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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.
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