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2) Fast break
Author
Language
English
Description
Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
5) White lilacs
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, twelve-year-old Rose Lee sees trouble threatening her black community when the whites decide to take their land for a park and forcibly relocate black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.
Author
Series
The Unicorn Rescue Society volume 4
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Uchenna and Elliot travel with Professor Fauna to the Texas-Mexico border to save the region's animals and help bring a divided community back together with the help of locals"--
8) Glory be
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Gloriana faces her twelfth birthday in 1964 and struggles with the changes she sees happening around her, but while she struggles to understand the shift in her relationships with her sister--who is about to enter high school--and her best friend, Frankie, Gloriana witnesses tempers rise in a debate over a segregated public pool.
Author
Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It's the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive. But when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs...
12) Blended
Author
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.
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