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1841) Fibbed
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
After telling too many far-fetched tales, Nana Busumuru's sent to spend the summer with relatives in Ghana, where she must join forces with the trickster spider Ananse to prevent an evil corporation from steaing the magic in the village forest.
1842) Dear Martin
Author
Series
Dear Martin volume 1
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
1843) Here Comes The Bride
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Description
My Big Fat Greek Wedding -- 27 Dresses -- Wedding Crashers -- Bride Wars -- Muriel's Wedding -- Jewtopia -- The Wedding Date.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding: Toula is a quiet, devoted daughter in a big, crazy Greek family. Working in her father's restaurant, she hides behind her family and keeps the world at a distance. One day at the restaurant she finds herself pouring coffee for a man who inspires her to change her life, and the way she sees the world...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an 'illegal knife' in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated 'roughly' as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray was in a coma he would never recover from. In the wake of a long history of police abuse in Baltimore, this killing felt like a final straw--it led to a week of protests and then five days described alternately...
1846) Saving sunshine
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Appears on list
Description
"It's hard enough being a kid without being teased for a funny sounding name or wearing a hijab. It's even harder when you're constantly fighting your sibling--and Zara and Zeeshan really can't stand each other. During a family trip to Florida, when the bickering, shoving, and insults reach new heights of chaos, their parents sentence them to the worst possible fate--each other's company! But when the twins find an ailing turtle, it presents a rare...
1847) Rosa Parks
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Find out about the life of Rosa Parks and how her actions in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 helped end racial segregation in America"--
1848) When moon blooms
Author
Series
Publisher
Rise x Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
As a child admires the moon, their mother imparts Mexican Indigenous wisdom of the moon's phases as they relate to our bodies and lives.
1849) Harriet Tubman
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Find out about the life of Harriet Tubman and how her brave actions working to "conduct" the Underground Railroad helped the Union Army in the Civil War lead more than 700 slaves to freedom."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"The first and only book to ever be written by a member of America's most secret military unit--an explosive and unlikely story of immigration, service, and sacrifice. Inside our military is a team of operators whose work is so secretive that the name of the unit itself is classified. Highly-trained in warfare, self-defense, infiltration, and deep surveillance, "the Unit," as the Department of Defense has asked us to refer to it, has been responsible...
1852) Safe passage
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"An epic journey across the South Side of Chicago for Darius, his little sister Cissy, and his best friend Booger as they set out to find an armored truck that has lost a payload of cash"--Provided by publisher.
1853) Recitatif: a story
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In this 1983 short story about race and the relationships that shape us through life, Twyla and Roberta, friends since childhood who are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem as they grow older, cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. Includes a lengthy introduction and critique by Zadie Smith.
1854) The marriage game
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Layla Santos is the child of first-generation immigrants from India. Her parents run a Michelin-starred Indian restaurant in San Francisco and are very traditional in their ways, including a firm belief in the benefit of arranged marriages. Her father, thinking he knows best, signs Layla up for IndianGirlMatch.com and sets up a series of dates without telling her ... Sam Mehta is the self-made CEO of a corporate consultancy specializing in downsizing....
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their...
1857) Martyr!
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
1858) Girl on fire
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
From New York Times bestselling author and 15-time GRAMMYʼ Award-winning artist Alicia Keys comes a new authentic and poignant coming-of-age young adult graphic novel, about finding the strength within when your whole world changes in an instant. Lolo Wright always thought she was just a regular fourteen-year-old dealing with regular family drama: her brother, James, is struggling with his studies; her dad's business constantly teeters on the edge...
1859) The black kids
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble. Los Angeles, 1992. It's the end of senior year and Ashley Bennett and her friends are spending more time at the beach than in the classroom. When four LAPD officers are acquitted after beating a black man named Rodney King half to death, violent...
1860) Rosita
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Elmo's friend Rosita stars in this colorful, photographic board book. Babies and toddlers will love turning the sturdy pages to find out what Rosita--a bilingual muppet with Mexican heritage--likes to do with her family and her Sesame Street friends."
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