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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.
3) 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.
5) 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.
6) Blended
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
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"--
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