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Marisol McDonald volume 1
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Marisol McDonald, a biracial, nonconformist, soccer-playing pirate-princess with brown skin and red hair, celebrates her uniqueness.
4) The land
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Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 8
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After the Civil War, Paul, the son of a white father and an 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.
5) Blended
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[2018]
Language
English
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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.
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"My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I'm allergic to the world. I don't leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black -- black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking...
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When, after a demon appears to repossess her car, she discovers that both the car and her soul were given as collateral in a deal made with the Devil by her irrascible grandfather, eighteen-year-old Bug Smoot, given two-days' grace, tries to find ways to outsmart the Devil and his minions.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Using their telepathic bond to help others in need, Emily and her rescued dog, Zack, are shocked to discover their shared ability to see ghosts before deciding to assist a troubled spirit that is doomed to haunt the town unless they can save a troubled person.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
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English
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To celebrate his half birthday, Oscar, his parents, and his sister go out for a picnic. Oscar is six months old today, but the truth is that no one can wait for his whole birthday. So there's nothing else for Mom and Dad to do but pack some sandwiches, park Oscar in his stroller, and take older sister Millie-handmade fairy wings attached-to the "half country" of their urban park for a half-birthday party. As always in the warm, quirky world of Bob...
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English
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Frankie Towers has always looked up to his older brother, Steve. And with good reason—Steve is a popular senior gets whatever he wants: girls, a soccer scholarship, and—lately—street cred. Frankie, on the other hand, spends his time shooting off fireworks with his best friend, Zach, working at his parents' restaurant, and obsessing about his longtime crush, Rebecca Sanchez.
Although Frankie has some reservations, he doesn’t spend much time...
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Series
What we saw at night volume 2
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Despite her fatal allergy to sunlight, XP, and the risk to all she holds dear, Allie Kim is determined to see Garrett Tabor brought to justice and may get her chance when she and Rob uncover a horrible secret Tabor has hidden under Lake Superior.
13) Endangered
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"When Lauren (Panda), a teen photoblogger, gets involved in a deadly game, she has to protect the classmates she despises"--
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Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of college, but when her family is struck by tragedy she puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, a...
Author
Series
Cilla Lee-Jenkins volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"A half-Chinese, half-Caucasian girl's 'memoir' about a new sibling, being biracial, and her path to literary greatness"--
Author
Series
What we saw at night volume 1
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English
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After glimpsing an older man in a room with a dead girl, sixteen-year-old Allie, who has a life-threatening allergy to sunlight, discovers she is the lone key to stopping a serial killer.
18) Red Rider's hood
Author
Series
Dark fusion volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
After learning that there are werewolves in his city, a sixteen-year-old is even more surprised to discover the identities of the hunters who drove them out decades earlier, but he soon infiltrates the Wolves gang to help destroy them for good.