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2) Blended
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Prairie Lotus is a powerful, touching, multilayered book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an education, becoming a dressmaker in her father's shop, and making at least one friend. Acclaimed, award-winning author Linda Sue Park has placed a young half-Asian girl, Hanna, in a small town in America's heartland, in 1880. Hanna's adjustment to her new surroundings, which primarily means negotiating the townspeople's almost...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ella seeks information about her father while enjoying a visit with her mother, a jazz singer, in Boston in 1944, then returns to the harsh realities of segregated, small-town South Carolina.
5) Gracias
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
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
Charlie Thorne volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The CIA forces twelve-year-old Charlotte "Charlie" Thorne, a rebellious genius, to use her code-breaking skills on an epic global chase to locate Einstein's last equation before dangerous agents discover it and unlock the solution to harnessing energy.--
8) Double play
Author
Series
Baseball genius volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
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
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Gigi wants to go by something besides her baby name--but her full name, Geraldine, is too long to write and Hanako, her middle name, doesn't feel quite right. Will Gigi find the perfect name?"--
Author
Series
Unusual chickens volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
Author
Series
Marisol McDonald volume 1
Publisher
Distributed to the Book trade by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A creative, unique, bilingual Peruvian Scottish-American-soccer-playing artist celebrates her uniqueness.
13) Beauty woke
Author
Publisher
Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Beauty--who is of Taino Indian, African, and Boricua heritage--was taught to be strong and proud, but hatred toward people who look like her bruises her heart until her community opens her eyes to the truth.
Author
Series
Marisol McDonald volume 3
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A spunky, bilingual, multiracial girl finds her own way to conquer her fear of the nighttime monster that mysteriously appears in her home. Includes author's note and glossary"--
20) Gigi and Ojiji
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gigi can't wait for her Ojiji--Japanese grandpa--to move in. Gigi plans lots of things to do with him, like playing tag, reading books, and teaching Roscoe, the family dog, new tricks. But her plans don't work out quite the way she'd hoped. And her grandpa doesn't seem to like Roscoe. Will Gigi find a way to connect with her Ojiji?"--
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