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Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
42) The hate u give
Author
Language
English
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Banned Books Week: Young Adult Fiction
Book List for SOU Education Courses
Books for Teen and Tween Activists
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Book List for SOU Education Courses
Books for Teen and Tween Activists
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer...
43) The black kids
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
School Library Journal - Best Teen Books of 2020
School Library Journal - Best Teen Books of 2020
Description
With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
44) Blended
Author
Language
English
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Description
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.
45) Indian no more
Author
Language
English
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A Book Written By A Person of Color
If I Ever Get Out of Here: Further Reading
Indigenous People's Day: Junior Fiction
Read This! -- Rogue Reads Edition
If I Ever Get Out of Here: Further Reading
Indigenous People's Day: Junior Fiction
Read This! -- Rogue Reads Edition
Description
In 1957, ten-year-old Regina Petit's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and forced to leave Oregon, but in Los Angeles her family faces prejudice and she struggles to understand her identity as an Indian far from tribal lands. Includes historical photographs and notes.
Author
Series
Unicorn Rescue Society volume 4
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Uchenna and Elliot travel with Professor Fauna to the Texas-Mexico border to save the region's animals and help bring a divided community back together with the help of locals"--
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