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The best bad luck I ever had
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Kristin Levine |
The last thing Harry "Dit" Sims expects when Emma Walker comes to town is to become friends. Proper -talking, brainy Emma doesn't play baseball or fi sh too well, but she sure makes Dit think, especi… |
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Copper sun
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Sharon M. Draper |
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary t… |
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Major Pettigrew's last stand
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Helen Simonson |
You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as famil… |
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Between Us Baxters
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Bethany Hegedus |
It's hard to be a "Black Sheep Baxter," at least for 12-year-old Polly. From a poor white family, Polly's best friend, Timbre Ann Biggs, is black, making them the only "salt-and-pepper" friends in to… |
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Autumn Street
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Lois Lowry |
When her father goes to fight in World War II, Elizabeth goes with her mother and sister to her grandfather's house where she learns to face up to the always puzzling and often cruel realities of the… |
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Loving
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Sheryll Cashin |
Loving beyond boundaries is a radical act that is changing America. When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime: miscegenation,… |
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Across the alley
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Richard Michelson |
Jewish Abe's grandfather wants him to be a violinist while African-American Wille's father plans for him to be a great baseball pitcher, but it turns out that the two boys are more talented when they… |
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Wherever there is light
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Peter Golden |
A "panoramic tale of twentieth-century America, chronicling the decades-long love affair between a Jewish immigrant and the granddaughter of a slave"--Amazon.com. |
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My friend Jamal
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Anna McQuinn |
A picture book story about a childhood friendship in which unfamiliar cultures meet. Playful visuals combine illustrations and photographs, and book recognizes the bond between two boys as well as sa… |
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Balyet
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Patricia Wrightson |
Despite the precautions of the old aborigine woman she calls Granny, fourteen-year-old Jo falls under the spell of a secret thing in the Australian hills, a girl endlessly alive and crying for the de… |
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Beige
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Ci'Monique Green |
"In 1935 Seattle, Josiah Kessler has never seen a colored person. But when the 15-year-old newspaper boy delivers a copy of the Renton Chronicle to Davis Jordan, the old Mississippi man befriends him… |
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I'll always be with you
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Violetta Armour |
"The threads of a dead man's life and history converge in [this] ... dramatic debut novel about heritage, family, and forgiveness"--Kirkus Reviews.
Since the horrific night a drunk driver slammed in… |
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The Edification Of Sonya Crane (Kimani Tru)
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Jd Guilford,J. D. Guilford |
When Sonya Crane transferred to predominantly black Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School (PLD) in Atlanta, she hadn't planned on passing as biracial. But being one of only a few white students in the sch… |
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