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1) Someone new
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When three children, Jesse, Jason, and Emma, are confronted with new classmates from different ethnic backgrounds, they strive to overcome their initial reactions, and to understand, accept, and welcome Maria, Jin, and Fatima.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Acclaimed poet, novelist, journalist, and educator Nikki Grimes was born and raised in New York City. Each of the 18 kids in Mr. Ward's inner-city classroom has something important to say, but some don't even realize it. Then Mr. Ward begins to have “open mic” poetry slams once a month on Fridays. Young adult listeners will identify with the characters in Bronx Masquerade as they explore questions about life and self-expression.
Author
Language
English
Description
"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not. In this book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are...
Author
Series
Reading rainbow volume 145
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Despite the differences between people around the world, there are similarities that join us together, such as pain, joy, and love.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A rhyming celebration of ancestry and of the diversity that flourishes in this country. Clues in the girl's words and hints in the art, especially in the magnificent borders, which range from Celtic bas-relief to native American beadwork, give the little ones insight into the girl's ancestry.
7) The breaks
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
An Irish white boy who wants to be black hangs out in the hood and the unexpected happens.
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores the many differences that exist between people throughout the world and what can be done to help reduce prejudice and discrimination and increase respect for cultural differences, both through government action and the efforts of individual citizens.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are...
11) Saga: Volume One
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe.
14) Saga: Volume 5
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk everything to find a cure for The Will, Marko makes an uneasy alliance with Prince Robot IV to find their missing children, who are trapped on a strange world with terrifying new enemies.
15) Saga: 3
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
♭2014, ♭2014
Language
English
Description
"New parents Marko and Alana travel to an alien world to visit their hero, while the family's pursuers finally close in on their targets"--
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