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2) Passing
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Restless Classics presents the ninetieth anniversary edition of an undersung gem of the Harlem Renaissance: Nella Larsen's Passing, a captivating and prescient exploration of identity, sexuality, self-invention, class, and race set amidst the pealing boisterousness of the Jazz Age.
When childhood friends Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry cross paths at a whites-only restaurant, it's been decades since they last met. Married to a bigoted white man who...
5) Skull water
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"Set in South Korea in the 1950s and 1970s, a haunting inter-generational coming-of-age novel about identity and displacement.
Skull Water is a coming-of-age story set in South Korea about Insu, the son of a Korean mother and a GI father in the U.S. Army, and the intertwined tale of his Korean Big Uncle, who has been exiled to a mountain cave near the family village to die from a gangrenous foot. Growing up near the army base in the aftermath of the...
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American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Books for Middle Grade
Read AAPI Voices
¡Celebre Día! / Celebrate Día!
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Books for Middle Grade
Read AAPI Voices
¡Celebre Día! / Celebrate Día!
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In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistance to change as they try to make a home for themselves. Includes author's note.
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Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Books for High School
Bestselling Books Written During NaNoWriMo
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
Bestselling Books Written During NaNoWriMo
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
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After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.
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Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a black father he's never known and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn't, twenty-two-year-old Bobby Saraceno is passing for white. Raised by his bigoted maternal grandfather, Bobby has hidden his truth from everyone, even his best friend and fellow comic-book geek, Aaron, who has just returned home from prison a hardened racist. Bobby's disparate worlds collide when his and Aaron's reunion is interrupted by a confrontation...
11) Mixed me!
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Mike is a mixed child, a blend of dark and light. He has to explain about being mixed a lot, but he does it with tons of energy and joy.
12) Half-blood blues
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83-year-old Sid Griffiths remembers his time during WWII playing in a Berlin jazz band called the Hot Time Swingers. When jazz music was denounced by the Nazis, Sid and his bandmates fled to Paris--a move that put Hieronymous, the band's brilliantly talented trumpeter, in constant danger due to his Afro-German heritage.
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Español
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Seventh grade is going to be Iveliz s year. She s going to make a new friend, help her abuela Mimi get settled after moving from Puerto Rico, and she is not going to get into any more trouble at school Except is that what happens? Of course not. Because no matter how hard Iveliz tries, sometimes people say things that just make her so mad. And worse, Mimi keeps saying Iveliz s medicine is unnecessary even though it helps Iveliz feel less sad. But...
15) Final draft
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Eighteen-year-old Laila Piedra is a biracial aspiring author whose creative writing teacher always told her she has a special talent, so when he suddenly dies and is replaced by Nadiya Nazarenko, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who is sadistically critical and perpetually unimpressed, Laila grows obsessed with gaining the woman's approval and is led to believe she must choose between perfection and sanity, but rejecting her all-powerful mentor may...
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Unusual chickens volume 1
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English
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Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
17) Blended
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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.
18) Double play
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Baseball genius volume 2
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English
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When New York Yankee James "JY" Yager tries to show that he can still hit in the majors without the help of twelve-year-old Jalen's baseball genius, Jalen focuses on his own baseball career as he tries to carve out a spot with the Rockton Rockets.
19) The land
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 8
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English
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Read by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Approx. 12 hours, 15 minutes
8 cassettes
The prequel to Newbery Medal winner Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Paul-Edward Logan, grandfather of Cassie (Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry) is born during the Civil War, the son of a white plantation owner father and a former slave mother. Though this heritage was not unusual for the time, this upbringing is. Paul-Edward's father sees to it that...
Approx. 12 hours, 15 minutes
8 cassettes
The prequel to Newbery Medal winner Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Paul-Edward Logan, grandfather of Cassie (Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry) is born during the Civil War, the son of a white plantation owner father and a former slave mother. Though this heritage was not unusual for the time, this upbringing is. Paul-Edward's father sees to it that...
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2020.
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English
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Pride for Teens
School Library Journal - Best Teen Books of 2020
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
School Library Journal - Best Teen Books of 2020
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
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Publisher Annotation: 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...
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