Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism
HarperCollins I Am More Than
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HarperCollins If We Were a Movie
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Eliza from Scratch
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HarperCollins Tough Times
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Penguin Putnam Inc Song of the Trees
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Little, Brown & Company Ghost Boys
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Hachette Book Group USA Ghost Boys The Graphic Novel
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Little, Brown & Company An American Story Coretta Scott King Illustrator
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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Internment
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Saints of the Household
Book SynopsisWinner of the Pura Belpré Award and Walter Dean Myers Award for Young Adult Literature!Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--beautifully told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer--that will take your breath away.Max and Jay have always depended on one another for their survival. Growing up with a physically abusive father, the two Bribri American brothers have learned that the only way to protect themselves and their mother is to stick to a schedule and keep their heads down.But when they hear a classmate in trouble in the woods, instinct takes over and they intervene, breaking up a fight and beating their high school''s star soccer player to a pulp. This act of violence threatens the brothers'' dreams for the future and their beliefs about who they are. As the true details of that fateful afternoon unfold over the course of the novel, Max and Jay grapple with t
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Random House USA Inc Wide Awake
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Random House USA Inc Nyxia Uprising
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Penguin Random House Children's UK The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963
Book SynopsisThe ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
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Penguin Young Readers Group What Was the Underground Railroad
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Penguin Young Readers Group Fireblooms
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Random House Children's Books Alligator Bayou
Book SynopsisAn unforgettable novel, based on a true story, about racism against Italian Americans in the South in 1899. Fourteen-year-old Calogero, his uncles, and his cousins are six Sicilians living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana, miles from any of their countrymen. They grow vegetables and sell them at their stand and in their grocery store. Some people welcome the immigrants; most do not. Calogero's family is caught in the middle of tensions between the black and white communities. As Calogero struggles to adapt to Tallulah, he is startled and thrilled by the danger of midnight gator hunts in the bayou and by his powerful feelings for Patricia, a sharp-witted, sweet-natured black girl. Meanwhile, every day, and every misunderstanding between the white community and the Sicilians, bring Calogero and his family closer to a terrifying, violent confrontation. In this affecting and unforgettable novel, Donna Jo Napoli's inspired research and sp
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Penguin Putnam Inc All My Rage
Book SynopsisNational Book Award WINNERPrintz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature WINNERAn INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An INSTANT INDIE BESTSELLER!All My Rage is a love story, a tragedy and an infectious teenage fever dream about what home means when you feel you don’t fit in. — New York Times Book ReviewFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir comes a brilliant, unforgettable, and heart-wrenching contemporary novel about family and forgiveness, love and loss, in a sweeping story that crosses generations and continents.Lahore, Pakistan. Then.Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds'' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now.Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; the
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Nancy Paulsen Books Across So Many Seas
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Random House USA Inc As Good as Dead
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Random House USA Inc Caste Adapted for Young Adults
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Random House USA Inc Song of Silver Flame Like Night
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to discovering the secrets of her nation''s past?and unleashing the demons that sleep at its heart. An epic fantasy series inspired by the mythology and folklore of ancient China. ?Brims with pure magic. Zhao has woven together a story of self-discovery, slow-burning romance, and heart-pounding revelations.? ?Rebecca Ross, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals ?A magical tale set in a glittering, dangerous world featuring a dynamic heroine and an enigmatic hero.? ?Isabel Ibañez, #1 New York Times bestselling author of What The River KnowsLan spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak?gong, a city transformedby the Elantian colonizers. Her days are consumed by the search for knowledge about the strange mark?an untranslatable Hin character?burned into her arm by her mother in her last act before she died.Zen is a practitioner?one of the fabled magicians of the Last Kingdom. He?s never seen anything like Lan?s mark, but he knows that if there are answers, they lie deep in the pine forests and misty mountains of the Last Kingdom, with an order of practitioning masters planning to overthrow the Elantian regime.Yet, both Lan and Zen are hiding secrets?secrets that are buried deep within them. Secrets that even they have still to unearth. Both hold the power to liberate their land, if they don''t destroy it first.Now the battle for the Last Kingdom begins.Inspired by ancient Chinese mythology and folklore, Song of Silver, Flame Like Night transports readers to a lush fantasy world filled with high-stakes adventure, glittering magic, and against-all-odds romance from beginning to end.
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Penguin Young Readers All of Us A First Conversation About Disability
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iUniverse The Real Me
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iUniverse There Grows a Crooked Tree
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iUniverse THE ADVENTURES OF RUTHIE AND A LITTLE BOY NAMED GRANDPA
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iUniverse Bittersweet The Diary of Brandy Morgan
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iUniverse There Grows a Crooked Tree
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Same Same But Different
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9:10 Publishing Letters to a Young Generation
Book Synopsis17 women share their experiences of growing up in the UK as a Black female. Heartfelt and honest, they offer words of wisdom and encouragement to the next generation..
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Fame's Eternal Books, LLC Can Pink Elephants Fly
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Gods of Delphi
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St Martin's Press Mixed A Colorful Story
Book SynopsisThe reds, the yellows, and the blues all think they''re the best in this vibrant, thought-provoking picture book from Arree Chung, with a message of acceptance and unity. In the beginning, there were three colors . . .Reds,Yellows,and Blues.All special in their own ways, all living in harmonyuntil one day, a Red says Reds are the best! and starts a color kerfuffle. When the colors decide to separate, is there anything that can change their minds?A Yellow, a Blue, and a never-before-seen color might just save the day in this inspiring book about color, tolerance, and embracing differences.
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St Martin's Press Children of Blood and Bone 1 Legacy of Orisha
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Henry Holt & Company Children of Virtue and Vengeance
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Roaring Brook Press Choosing Brave
Book SynopsisA Caldecott-honor winning picture book biography of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son''s death into a call to action for the civil rights movement.Mamie Till-Mobley is the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy who was brutally murdered while visiting the South in 1955. His death became a rallying point for the civil rights movement, but few know that it was his mother who was the catalyst for bringing his name to the forefront of history.In Choosing Brave, Angela Joy and Janelle Washington offer a testament to the power of love, the bond of motherhood, and one woman''s unwavering advocacy for justice. It is a poised, moving work about a woman who refocused her unimaginable grief into action for the greater good. Mamie fearlessly refused to allow America to turn away from what happened to her only child. She turned pain into change that ensured her son''s life mattered.Timely, powerful, and beautifully told,
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Square Fish Promise Boys
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St Martin's Press Doomed Sacco Vanzetti the End of the American
Book SynopsisFrom John Florio and Emmy Award-winning writer Ouisie Shapiro comes a monumental YA nonfiction book about the heartbreaking case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants who were wrongfully executed for murder.In the early 1920s, a Red Scare gripped America. Many of those targeted were Italians, Eastern Europeans, and other immigrants.When an armed robbery resulting in the death of two people broke headlines in Massachusetts, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzettiboth Italian immigrantswere quick to be accused.A heated trial ensued, but through it all, the two men maintained their innocence. The controversial case quickly rippled past borders as it became increasingly clear that Sacco and Vanzetti were fated for a death sentence. Protests sprang up around the world to fight for their lives.Learn the tragic history we dare not repeat in Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti, and the End of the American Dream, an action-packed, fast-paced nonfiction
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St Martin's Press What the River Knows
Book SynopsisThe Mummy meets Death on the Nile in What the River Knows, Isabel Ibañez''s lush, immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt and filled with adventure, a rivals-to-lovers romance, and a dangerous race.Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that's been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything a girl might want, except for the one thing she yearns the most: her globetrotting parentswho frequently leave her behind.When she receives word of their tragic deaths, Inez inherits their massive fortune and a mysterious guardian, an archeologist in partnership with his Egyptian brother-in-law. Yearning for answers, Inez sails to Cairo, bringing her sketch pads and a golden ring her father sent to her for safekeeping before he died. But upon her arrival, the old world magic tethe
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Square Fish Angel of Greenwood
Book SynopsisAngel of Greenwood by Randi Pink is a piercing, unforgettable love story set in Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as the Black Wall Street, and against the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. Angel Hill is a loner, mostly disregarded by her peers as a goody-goody. Her father is dying, and her family's financial situation is in turmoil.Though they've attended the same schools, Isaiah never noticed Angel as anything but a dorky, Bible toting church girl. Then their English teacher offers them a job on her mobile library, a three-wheel, two-seater bike. Angel can't turn down the money and Isaiah is soon eager to be in such close quarters with Angel every afternoon.But life changes on May 31, 1921 when a vicious white mob storms the Black community of Greenwood, leaving the town destroyed and thousands of re
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St Martin's Press We Are All So Good at Smiling
Book SynopsisThey Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse about clinical depression and healing from trauma, from National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride.Whimsy is back in the hospital for treatment of clinical depression. When she meets a boy named Faerry, she recognizes they both have magic in the marrow of their bones. And when Faerry and his family move to the same street, the two start to realize that their lifelines may have twined and untwined many times before.They are both terrified of the forest at the end of Marsh Creek Lane.The Forest whispers to Whimsy. The Forest might hold the answers to the part of Faerry he feels is missing. They discover the Forest holds monsters, fairy tales, and pain that they have both been running from for 11 years.
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Inkyard Press Night of the Dragon
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Inkyard Press The Scarlet Alchemist
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Inkyard Press The Rebel Mages
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Scholastic Inc. Show Me a Sign Show Me a Sign Book 1
Book SynopsisDon''t miss the companion book, Set Me FreeCRITICS ARE RAVING ABOUT SHOW ME A SIGNWinner of the 2021 Schneider Family Book Award * NPR Best Books of 2020 * Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2020 * School Library Journal Best Books of 2020 * New York Public Library Best Books of 2020 * Chicago Public Library Best Books of 2020 * 2020 Jane Addams Children''s Book Award Finalist * 2020 New England Independent Booksellers Award FinalistDeaf author Ann Clare LeZotte weaves a riveting story inspired by the true history of a thriving deaf community on Martha''s Vineyard in the early 19th century. This piercing exploration of ableism, racism, and colonialism will inspire readers to examine core beliefs and question what is considered normal.* A must-read. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewMore than just a page-turner. Well researched and spare... sensitive... re
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Scholastic HITLER YOUTH GROWING UP IN HITLERS SHADO
Book SynopsisA Newbery and Sibert Honor Book! A riveting and often chilling story of Germany''s powerful Hitler Youth. A PB edition in an accessible new novel-sized reformat for Scholastic Focus!In this Newbery Honor and Sibert Honor award-winning book, Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany''s powerful Hitler Youth groups.By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler Youth. It would become the largest youth group in history. Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany''s young people. Her research includes telling interviews with surviving Hitler Youth members.I begin with the young. We older ones are used up . . . But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world. -- Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg 1933
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Scholastic Inc. Dont Tell the Nazis
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Scholastic Inc. Wings
Book SynopsisAre you brave enough to be your true self? Ikarus Jackson is, but it isn''t always easy. The people in his neigborhood point at his wings. The kids at school laugh. The teachers call him a distraction. One girl identifies with Ikarus, but she is too shy to speak up for herself, let alone for him. Maybe I should have said something to those mean kids, she thinks, when their taunts send him drifting into the sky.Inspired by Ikarus''s own courage, she sets out in search of him and so begins her own journey of self discovery -- leaving both of them transformed.I wanted to create a book that tells kids never to abandon the things that make them different, to be proud of what makes them unique. Every child has their own beauty, their own talents. Ikarus Jackson can fly through the air; I want kids to find their own set of wings and soar with him. -- Christopher Myers
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Gibbs Smith Some Ponies
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