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41) Forbidden
Author
Series
Old West series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Rhine Fontaine is building the successful life he's always dreamed of--one that depends upon him passing for White. But for the first time in years, he wishes he could step out from behind the facade. The reason: Eddy Carmichael, the young woman he rescued in the desert. Outspoken, defiant, and beautiful, Eddy tempts Rhine in ways that could cost him everything ... and the price seems worth paying. Eddy owes her life to Rhine, but she won't risk her...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It begins in Graz, Austria, 1938. Joseph Skizzen's father, pretending to be Jewish, leaves his country for England with his wife and two children to avoid any connection with the Nazis, who he foresees will soon take over his homeland. In London with his family for the duration of the war, he disappears under mysterious circumstances. The family is relocated to a small town in Ohio, where Joseph Skizzen grows up, becomes a decent amateur piano player,...
43) Queenie: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places . . . including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of...
45) Pezzettino
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
[1975]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Pezzettino is so small he is convinced he must be a piece of somebody else. A wise man helps him discover the truth.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.
47) Still missing
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Captured by a psychopath posing as an interested house buyer, realtor Annie spends a brutally traumatic year in captivity in a remote mountain cabin and recounts her experiences and dramatic escape to her therapist while agonizing over the ongoing policesearch for her captor.
48) Learning to fly
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Books of beginning volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the second book in the Books of Beginning Trilogy, Michael and Emma must track down the Chronicle of Life, while Kate must find a way back to present day from the year 1899"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
Luna -- or depending on who's asking, Rose -- is the white-passing daughter of an immigrant mother who has seen what happens to people from her culture. This world is prejudicial, and she must hide her identity in pursuit of owning an illegal jazz club. Using her cunning powers, Rose negotiates with dangerous criminals as she climbs up Kansas City's bootlegging ladder. Luna, however, runs the risk of losing everything if the crooked city councilmen...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican--but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael's coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs--and the Black Flamingo is born. Told with raw honesty, insight, and lyricism, this debut explores the...
54) Marsupial Sue
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Marsupial Sue, a young kangaroo, finds happiness in doing what kangaroos do.
Author
Series
Not quite narwhal and friends volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Born deep in the ocean, Kelp is not like the other narwhals and one day, when he spies a creature on land that looks like him, he learns why.
58) The ugly pumpkin
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A lonely, oddly-shaped pumpkin is sad that no one chose him for Halloween, but by Thanksgiving he has discovered where he belongs.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
Author
Series
Justice hustlers volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sisters from Trinidad, Violet and Lily have never had much in common. Stunning Lily arrives undocumented in New York and makes her way as a stripper. But Harvard-educated Violet is this close to the perfect assimilated life, thanks to a prestigious job, and her rich bougie fiancé... Until she aids a woman in trouble, and is mistaken for a notorious strip-club mogul's mistress. When she's wrongly accused of helping him embezzle millions, Violet loses...
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