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3) 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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English
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"Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their shared family secrets threaten to destroy them all?"--
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Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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After a bewildering encounter at her small town's annual summer festival, seventeen-year-old biracial, queer Nima plunges into the world of drag, where she has the chance to explore questions of identity, acceptance, self-expression, and love.
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Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"In Makersville, Indiana, people know all about fifteen-year-old Ronney--he's from that mixed-race family with the dad who tried to kill himself, the pill-popping mom, and the genius kid sister. Can Ronney figure out a way to hold it together as all his worlds fall apart?"--
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Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Dream Country author Shannon Gibney returns with The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be, a book woven from her true story of growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee and fictional story of Erin Powers, the name Shannon was given at birth, a child raised by a white closeted lesbian. At its core, the novel is a tale of two girls on two different timelines occasionally bridged by a mysterious portal and their shared search...
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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...
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Oceano Travesía
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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In the beginning, there were only three colors: reds, blues, and yellows. They all lived in harmony until one day, one of the reds declared, "Reds are the best." A scandal erupted, as obviously neither the blues nor the yellows agreed. They fought among themselves and decided to build walls to separate themselves and make their differences clearer. It seemed there was no turning back and the colors would be separated forever. But one day, a yellow,...
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Best friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll flee their repressive boarding school, intending to start over in the theaters of Paris, but they instead find themselves at Cedric's estate in Yorkshire, where a hidden garden helps them realize their destiny.
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz is torn between two worlds, passing for white while living in Harlem, being called Jewish while attending her mother's Baptist church, and experiencing first love while watching her parents' marriage crumble.
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