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Language
English
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"The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a scheming lord tears Jess's family apart, she must rely on her unlikely friendship with Kal, a high-ranking Patron boy, and her skill at Fives, an intricate, multi-level athletic competition that offers a chance for glory, to protect her Commoner mother and mixed-race sisters and save her father's reputation.
Author
Publisher
Seventeen Fiction from Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Forced to move to a small southern town halfway through her senior year, mixed-race teen Agnes struggles with culture shock and endeavors to keep her head down before discovering that her high school holds segregated proms.
6) Light years
Author
Publisher
Merit Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious virus turns into a worldwide pandemic, sixteen-year-old Luisa Ochoa-Jones travels across the country in search of a cure, discovering that the fate of humanity may rest in the confluence of her extraordinary computer programming skills and a synesthesia-like condition that causes her senses to misfire when she is under emotional stress.
13) Starfish
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.
Author
Series
Dear America volume 22
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The 1845-1846 diary of thirteen-year-old Maria, servant to the wealthy Spanish family which took her in when her Indian mother died. Includes a historical note about the settlement and early history of California.
15) 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.
16) So done
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When best friends Metai and Jamila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and looming auditions for a potentially life-changing new talented-and-gifted program"--
Author
Series
Cilla-Lee Jenkins volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A half-Chinese, half-Caucasian girl's book about being biracial, sharing her best friend, and learning to be a flower girl.
18) The long ride
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In New York in 1971, Jamila and Josie are bused across Queens where they try to fit in at a new, integrated junior high school while their best friend, Francesca, tests the limits at a private school.
19) Barack Obama
Author
Series
Publisher
AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Provides an in-depth look at the inspiration, achievements, and successes that have defined one of the world's best-known people, Barack Obama." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A biography of New York Yankee baseball player Derek Jeter, covering his upbringing, struggle to prove himself as a shortstop, and success in the major leagues since 1996, with color photographs and a list of his 2008 records.
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