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1) The cay
Author
Language
English
Description
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After machines take control of Earth, following the extinction of humans, twelve-year-old robot XR 935A confronts its prejudices about humans and begins to reconsider its own existence within robot society after discovering and befriending a twelve-year-old human girl.
4) Beauty woke
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beauty, who is of Taino Indian, African, and Boricua heritage, was taught to be strong and proud but hatred toward people who look like her bruises her heart until her community opens her eyes to the truth.
5) Archon
Author
Series
Psi chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Taemon struggles with the fallout from his role in ending the city of Deliverance's ability to use telekinetic powers and embarks on a dangerous journey with Amma to find his missing father in a Republik.
6) Best of all
Author
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In a village where everyone has been carved from wood, an uppity Miss Bess Stovall claims her maple "ancestree" is superior until the day a shunned willow fellow saves her life.
Author
Language
English
Description
Itās 2002, a year after 9/11. Itās an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl whoās tired of being stereotyped. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. Sheās tired of the rude stares, the degrading commentsāeven the physical violenceāshe endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. So sheās built up protective...
10) Clean getaway
Author
Language
English
Description
"For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. But adventure quickly turns...
13) Internment
Author
Language
English
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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."
14) The Skin I'm in
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.
15) Response
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When an African American high school student is beaten with a baseball bat in a white neighborhood, three boys are charged with a hate crime.
19) El nino nuevo
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c 2000
Language
EspaƱol
Description
Lazlo, who has just moved to the United States from Hungary, is ostracized at school until two girls have the courage to befriend him.