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Eight seconds
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Jean Ferris,Jean Ferris |
Eighteen-year-old John must confront his own sexuality when he goes to rodeo school and finds himself strangely attracted to an older boy who is smart, tough, complicated, gorgeous, and gay. |
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Alice on the outside
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Eighth-grader Alice has lots of questions about sex, relationships, prejudice, and change. |
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Walker's Crossing
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
While living on his family's ranch in Wyoming where he hopes to someday be a cowboy, Ryan faces conflicts with his older brother who becomes involved in a militia movement. |
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Wind on the River
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Laurie Lawlor |
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Private Allen of South Carolina, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, decides to switch his allegiance to the Union and is sent to fight "savages" in Dakota Territory, wher… |
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Color Me Dark
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Patricia McKissack |
An ordinary girl living extraordinary events. Her family, Love, characterizes her comfortable, secure world in Bradford Corners, TN. Until Uncle Pace is murdered by the KKK.
The Author gradually e… |
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Middle Row
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Sylvia Olsen |
The seating on the bus is different this year. That’s because Raedawn and I and Sherry and Steve crossed the line.Things have changed since Raedawn and Vince started going out and the racial boundari… |
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Brains for lunch
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K. A. Holt |
At a middle school where zombies, blood-sucking chupacabras, and humans never mingle, "lifer" Siobhan and Loeb, a zombie who likes to write haiku, share an attraction. Story written entirely in haiku. |
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Journey home
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Yoshiko Uchida |
A Japanese American family return to their ordinary life after being relocated during World War II. After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family tr… |
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Torchlight
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Carol Otis Hurst |
In 1864, fifth-grader Charlotte befriends an Irish-American girl at school and tries to understand the prejudices between the Irish and the Yankees in her town of Westfield, Massachusetts. Based on h… |
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A perfect snow
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Nora Martin |
Seventeen-year-old Ben must deal with a violent white-supremacy hate group in his small Montana town because his father and his friends are involved with it. |
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Edgar Allan
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John Neufeld |
When the Fickett family decides to adopt a little black boy, they are faced with threats, angry phone calls, a burning cross on the lawn, and an ultimatum from their oldest daughter. |
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Dinosaur trouble
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Dick King-Smith |
Nosy and Banty are friends, so it's a pity that their families are so rude about each other. But when the terrible Tyrannosaurus rex arrives, the dinosaur families join forces to help one another out… |
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Where the great hawk flies
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Liza Ketchum |
Years after a violent New England raid by the Redcoats and their Revolutionary War Indian allies, two families, one that suffered during that raid and one with an Indian mother and Patriot father, be… |
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Saying goodbye
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Marie G. Lee |
In this sequel to "Finding My Voice," Ellen Sung explores her interest in creative writing and in her Korean heritage during her freshman year at Harvard. |
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Finding my voice
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Marie G. Lee |
As she tries to enjoy her senior year and choose which college she will attend, Korean American Ellen Sung must deal with the prejudice of some of her classmates and pressure from her parents to get … |
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The canning season
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Margaret Carlson |
When her friendship with Peggy begins to unravel because of racial prejudice, Peggie's sadness eases as she basks in the warmth of family love one day during the canning season. |
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Secrets in the house of Delgado
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Gloria D. Miklowitz |
In Spain in 1492, fourteen-year-old Maria, a Catholic orphan, becomes a servant to a wealthy family of Conversos, converted Jews, at a time when the Jews are being expelled from the country and when … |
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Mick
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Chris Lynch,Chris Lynch |
His friendship with two Hispanic students offers fifteen-year-old Mick an alternative to the drunken savagery of his brother and the narrow thinking of his Irish-American neighborhood in Boston. |
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When the circus came to town
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Polly Horvath |
Although Ivy and her family welcome the Halibuts, and their son Alfred becomes her best friend, not all the townspeople are pleased to have circus people as neighbors, especially as other circus fami… |
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Mayfield Crossing
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Vaunda Micheaux Nelson |
When the school in Mayfield Crossing is closed, the students are sent to larger schools, where the black children encounter racial prejudice for the first time. Only baseball seems a possibility for … |
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