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Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Language
English
Description
In an alternate Tang Dynasty China, aspiring royal alchemist Zilan, who has the ability to resurrect the dead, arrives in the capital to compete against the best alchemists in the country and becomes drawn into the dangerous political games of the royal family.
Author
Series
Lei volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Anna must dig deep into her Hawaiian roots in order to save her best friend and her island from an angry fire goddess.
12-year-old Lei is forced to spend summers in Hawaiʻi with her grandma who is determined to make sure she knows all her family's moʻolelo--stories the kids back home donʻt care about or believe. But after insulting Pele, the Goddess of Fire, she learns just how real these legends are when the goddess takes her...
5) Barack Obama
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
Biography of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In Washington, DC, seventh grader Evette learns the rift in her family was caused by racism and organizes a river cleanup where she invites her friends and family, including both of her grandmothers, hoping they can make amends.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
8) Deus X
Author
Series
August Snow novels volume 4
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Father Michael Grabowski, a Franciscan priest who has tended the spiritual needs of Detroit's Mexicantown for forty years, has suddenly retired. August Snow, who has known the priest his whole life, finds the circumstances troubling--especially in light of the recent suspicious suicide of another local priest. What dark history is Father Grabowski hiding? The situation takes a turn for the deadly with the appearance at the Detroit diocese of a mysterious...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
"Siblings Meg and Will must uncover the haunted history of their Aunt's quaint town in order to save their younger sister, Ariel, from a ghost intent on keeping her as a friend"--
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
Alternating between present day and flashbacks, multiracial Filipina-American teen Marisol tries to figure out who she really is in the wake of her mother's sudden death.
Marisol and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end. When her mother dies suddenly, Marisol is left with no one to fight against, haunted by all the things that she both said and didn't say. When Marisol sleeps with her best friend's boyfriend---...
12) Again, Essie?
Author
Series
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Language
English
Description
"Rafael tries to save his toys from his baby sister, Essie, by building a wall from shoeboxes, toilet paper rolls, and other household objects in this playful exploration of 3-D geometry and spatial reasoning"--
13) The braid girls
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Three girls start a hair-braiding business at their summer camp to make money, while competing against a rival business that threatens their plans"--
When Maggie learns that her father has a second daughter, Callie, she won't let a new family member get in the way of her summer plans with best friend Daija. They are determined to make tons of money braiding hair for kids around the neighborhood.Daija doesn't want Callie to interfere with their new...
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"By the bay where pelicans fly and orange foxes play is the summer home of everyone's dreams: the little blue cottage. All year, the cottage eagerly waits for the girl, and every summer the girl is excited to return and make lasting memories of carefree days. Summer after summer, the cottage fills with the sounds of family game nights, the smells of pancakes and popcorn, and the little girl's whispers: 'You are my favorite place.' Until one year,...
Author
Publisher
Tiny Reparations Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Growing up as the only biracial kid in Great Falls, Montana, the comedian, musician and band leader takes us through his story, hitting upon the culture shock he experienced after moving from Europe to Montana--a place he needed to leave, but is ultimately drawn back to.
Watts grew up in Great Falls, Montana in the '80s: half French, half American, half white, half Black, speaking a bunch of different languages and slipping between the orchestra...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Florida kitsch swirls together with magical realism in this glittering debut novel about a young Black and Indigenous woman who learns to change the color of her skin. Gabrielle has always had a complicated relationship with her mother Tallulah, one marked by intimacy and resilience in the face of a volatile patriarch. Everything in their home has been bleached a cold white -- from the cupboards filled with sheets and crockery to the food and spices...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
When Skye's cousin Hiroshi and his family move to Virginia from Japan, the cultural differences lead to misunderstandings and both children are unhappy at the changes in their lives--will flying the dragon kite finally bring them together?
Author
Series
Tiempo emulado volume Volume 53
Publisher
Iberoamericana
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods, which made them key players in the political economy of plunder that drove white settlement and U.S. development in the Old Northwest. But, as Michael Witgen demonstrates, the credit for Native persistence...