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It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help a Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by the racism and homophobia of those around them.
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2012
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English
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"Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she's sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it. Her mother doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love...
65) Under the sun
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Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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Chronicles the harrowing journey of Ehmet, a thirteen-year-old boy from Sarajevo who gets caught up in the ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Best-selling and award-winning picture-book writer Arthur Dorros has written his first novel, a thrilling My Side of the Mountain-type survival story. Separated from his parents by the Balkan war, 13-year-old Ehmet must use all his skills to survive a four-hundred-mile journey across wilderness and war-torn...
66) Four-Four-Two
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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[2016]
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English
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Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
67) Into white
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Feiwel and Friends
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2016.
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English
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"LaToya Williams lives in Montgomery, Alabama, and attends a mostly white high school. It seems as if her only friend is her older brother, Alex. Toya doesn t know where she fits in, but after a run-in with another student, she wonders if life would be different if she were . . . different. And then a higher power answers her prayer: to be anything but black. Toya is suddenly white, blond, and popular. Now what?"
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Legacy of Orisha volume 1
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2018.
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Twin daughters of interracial parents, eleven-year-olds Keira and Minna have very different skin tones and personalities, but it is not until their African American grandmother enters them in the Miss Black Pearl Pre-Teen competition in North Carolina that red-haired and pale-skinned Minna realizes what life in their small town in the Pacific Northwest has been like for her more outgoing, darker-skinned sister.
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Two children witness the effects of racial prejudice, as their father courageously defends an innocent black man who has been accused of raping a white woman.
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Legacy of Orisha volume 2
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English
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Publisher Annotation: They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Legacy of Orisha series,
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Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A little girl hears that her grandma's friend, Mrs. Lee, was pushed on her way to the Asian market. Then she learns that Asian students at her brother's school are afraid to walk to class, and she realizes something very wrong is happening to her community. How can life be so unfair? With her mom's support and the help of her friends, the little girl sets out to do something kind for Mrs. Lee. Everyone is Welcome is a book to begin a conversation...
76) Be who you are
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Picture book encouraging kids to be proud of what makes them unique, where they come from, and how they express themselves and see the world.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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At the height of South Africas anti-apartheid struggle, a boy must face life decisions that test what he believesand call for no turning back. South Africa, 1976. Joshua lives with his mother in the maids room, in the backyard of their wealthy white employers house in the city by the sea. He doesnt quite understand the events going on around him. But when he rescues a stranger and riots begin to sweep the country, Joshua has to face the world beneaththe...
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Michael's parents are leaders of a new anti-immigrant political party called Aussie Values which is trying to halt the flood of refugees from the Middle East; Mina fled Afghanistan with her family ten years ago, and just wants to concentrate on fitting in and getting into college--but the mutual attraction they feel demands that they come to terms with their family's concerns and decide where they stand in the ugly anti-Muslim politics of the time....
79) Bear and Bee
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Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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A hungry bear discovers that bees are not terrible monsters who never share their honey.
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