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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in a West Country farming village, The House of Broken Bricks lays bare the complexities of day-to-day life for a mixed-race family. Jess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in a city where she easily blends in into a creaking house on a floodplain where predatory birds hover over fields, eels coil in the river mud, buses run twice a day, neighbors barter honey for cider and no one looks like...
3) Double play
Author
Series
Baseball genius volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
School for S.P.I.E.S volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2013], �2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Reluctant orphan-turned-spy Max Segredo discovers intrigue at the Merry Sunshine Orphanage and must confront an international group bent on world domination, while uncovering mysteries from his past.
9) August Snow
Author
Series
August Snow novels volume 1
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Tough, smart, and struggling to stay afloat, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of an African American father and a Mexican mother, August grew up in Detroit's Mexicantown and joined the Detroit police only to be drummed out of the force by a conspiracy of corrupt cops and politicians. But August fought back; he took on the city and got himself a $12 million wrongful dismissal settlement that left him low on friends. He has just returned...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel and Grau
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Growing up outside a US military base in South Korea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Insu--the son of a Korean mother and a German father enlisted in the US Army--spends his days with his "half and half" friends skipping school, selling scavenged Western goods on the black market, watching Hollywood movies, and testing the boundaries between childhood and adulthood. When he hears a legend that water collected in a human skull will cure any sickness,...
13) Barack Obama
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and career of Barack Obama, discussing his accomplishments, and describing how his actions have impacted the history and development of the United States.
Author
Publisher
Abela Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In 1982, Fran Walker was born in California and given up for adoption. Twenty years later, she is on a quest to find her biological parents and solve questions that have plagued her since childhood. Four women are the storytellers and each narrates her perspective of events that began in 1980, when two students fell in love in South Africa. In addition to Fran, the women are her birth mother, biological grandmother, and adoptive mother. 1980 was a...
16) Rain fall
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Marisol McDonald volume 1
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Marisol McDonald, a biracial, nonconformist, soccer-playing pirate-princess with brown skin and red hair, celebrates her uniqueness.
19) Gracias
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young multiracial boy celebrates family, friendship, and fun by telling about some of the everyday things for which he is thankful.
Author
Series
Cilla Lee-Jenkins volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"A half-Chinese, half-Caucasian girl's 'memoir' about a new sibling, being biracial, and her path to literary greatness"--
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