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Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In Hawaii, Jaya Mehta is a transgender outsider with depressive tendencies. The stunningly beautiful Rasa Santos thinks sex is her only power. Rasa meets Xander, who beats her, cuts her, and makes her prostitute herself. Will their love transcend and pull them forward or will they remain stuck, separate, in the chaos of their pasts?
82) No place to hide
Author
Publisher
Made for Success Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Against hope, Smythe Windwalker Daniels's anonymity is compromised and a creditable threat has been made against her life. As the threats ratchet up, she feels she has no place to hide. The danger impacts not only her life but the lives of those around her. She reluctantly accepts the FBI's protection, hoping to testify and bring a promise of justice to a community.
Author
Series
Nahx invasions volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Sixteen year-old Raven, injured and still grieving over her boyfriend's death by the invading Nahx, crosses paths with Eighth, a Nyx warrior who has deserted his unit and abandoned his directives, and as the world falls apart around them, the two learn to trust each other in order to survive.
Author
Series
Keeper of Night volume 2
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this riveting sequel to The Keeper of Night, a half Reaper, half Shinigami soul collector must defend her title as Japan's Death Goddess from those who would see her--and all of Japan--destroyed." --
85) Pride
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pride and Prejudice gets remixed in this smart, funny, gorgeous retelling of the classic, starring all characters of color, from Ibi Zoboi, National Book Award finalist and author of American Street. Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Erin Powers navigates growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee being raised by a white, closeted lesbian mother. Based on the author's experience.
Two girls on different timelines -- each growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee -- find their lives bridged by a mysterious portal. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, Gibney examines the absurdities of the adoptee experience through her own adoption experiences. -- adapted from jacket...
Author
Publisher
Make Me a World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Alma's life is a constant of halfways: She's half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the time fighting, and the other half silent; and, at thirteen, she's halfway through becoming a woman. Then comes the year when everything changes, and her life is overtaken by constant endings: friends move away, romances bloom and wither, her parents file for divorce, and just like that her childhood seems to be over. Among this world of confusing beginnings,...
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 4
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Two lost souls cut off from their heritage find solace in each other in this remix of the gothic novel Wuthering Heights"--
Author
Publisher
Harvard Square Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Vivion Pinheiro is growing a crop of the hottest peppers in the world. However, this charming feckless Trinidadian fellow has a problem. He hasn't figured out how to market his crop. Known for his lack of follow-through, Vivion is often rescued by his wealthy mother, Andaluza. Now, however, Vivion has Nikki, his live-in girlfriend, and he just can't shuck all his responsibilities entirely. Then, when Vivion takes a trip to New York to try to find...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll flee their repressive boarding school, intending to start over in the theaters of Paris, but they instead find themselves at Cedric's estate in Yorkshire, where a hidden garden helps them realize their destiny.
93) Betty
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A stunning, lyrical coming-of-age novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl, with only the compass of her father's imagination, must navigate racism, sexism, and the dark secrets that will haunt her for the rest of her life. "A girl comes of age against the knife." So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in Arkansas in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings....
Author
Series
Marisol McDonald volume 2
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A unique, spunky, multiracial, bilingual girl plans a one-of-a-kind birthday party and hopes her abuelita (grandma) will be able to come from Peru to join the festivities. Includes an author's note and glossaries"--
95) Quicksand
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002, ©1928
Language
English
Description
"Born to an indifferent white mother and an absent black father, and scorned for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Georgina Powell is finally moving out of her parents' house--at thirty-two! And after years of carrying her mother's grief, she's ready for something new. She just didn't expect it to come in the form of Langston Cooper, the famed war correspondent who recently returned to buy Wickham Falls' local paper. But as she opens her own business, his role as editor in chief may pull him in a different direction--away from their future together."--Provided...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
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...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn't so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her is pretty cute. Maybe Clara actually feels invested in her dad's business. What if taking this summer seriously means that Clara...
Author
Publisher
7.13 Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jackson Bliss, who Regina King calls the "Kendrick Lamar of the literary world," has written a brilliant and moving debut novel that redefines what a novel can be. Hurricane Sandy has just smashed into the Eastern Seaboard, trapping four passengers on the C train: a Chinese-American graffiti artist grieving his father's death, a mixed-race graphic designer struggling to become a mom, a Moroccan-French translator escaping his heartache in Paris, and...
100) The truth is
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful exploration of love, identity, and self-worth through the eyes of a fierce, questioning Puerto Rican teen. Fifteen-year-old Verdad doesn't think she has time for love. She's still struggling to process the recent death of her best friend, Blanca; dealing with the high expectations of her hardworking Puerto Rican mother and the absence of her remarried father; and keeping everyone at a distance. But when she meets Danny, a new guy at school...
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