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21) Passing strange
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
386 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Karen, a zombie teenager, attempts to pass as human and prove her zombie friends' innocence when they are accused of murder.
22) The insult
Formats
Description
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 5
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 22 cm.
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Description
Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva's feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever's history...
26) Internment
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A terrifying, futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
Author
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Description
"Juliet, a self-identified queer, Bronx-born Puerto Rican-American, comes out to her family to disastrous results the night before flying to Portland to intern with her feminist author icon--whom Juliet soon realizes has a problematic definition of feminism that excludes women of color"--
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the stirrings of the civil rights movement and a rising wave of burgeoning Black pride. This tells the story of Duff, a railroad section hand who is forced to confront racial prejudice and self-denial when he falls in love with Josie, an educated preacher's daughter. An uplifting story about a man and a woman whose love overcomes racial and class barriers.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, Penguin Young Readers Group, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Description
As young rabbit siblings excitedly share the news that rats have moved into their building, worried neighbors inform them that rats are dirty, thieving, and destructive--but are they?
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 4
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Description
"Marty and his best friend, Shiloh are on another adventure. Marty learns when a secret is too dangerous to keep, and that hate can spread like fire"--
Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
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Description
A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a widowed lawyer, defends a black man falsely accused of rape.
35) The land
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 8
Publisher
Phyllis Fogelman Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.
Author
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Description
Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft!
Author
Series
Pepita books volume 2
Publisher
Pinata Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
Pepita does not like the color pink and is dismayed to learn that it is the favorite color of the pink little girl who moves in next door.
38) Slam!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
266 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.
Author
Series
Publisher
A Kids Book About
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; 26 cm.
Description
"This book was made to help kids understand what systemic racism is and how it's built into laws, schools, stories, and other inistitutions in a way that collectively makes life much harder for people of color." -- back cover
40) Generation dead
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
392 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.
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