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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Lina and Doon are thrilled to see their people join them above ground in the vibrant village of Sparks, but suspicion and prejudice soon turn the villagers and newcomers against each other.
7) The jacket
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An incident at school forces sixth grader Phil Morelli, a white boy, to become aware of racial discrimination and segregation, and to seriously consider if he himself is prejudiced.
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Mr. Lincoln, "the coolest principal in the whole world," discovers that Eugene, the school bully, knows a lot about birds, he uses this interest to help Eugene overcome his intolerance.
9) The cay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded in a torpedo attack at sea during World War II, acquires a new type of vision, courage, and love when he is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with Timothy, a kind, elderly black man.
10) Torchlight
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In 1864, fifth-grader Charlotte befriends an Irish-American girl at school and tries to understand the prejudices between the Irish and the Yankees in her town of Westfield, Massachusetts. Based on historical events.
Author
Publisher
Golden Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Critter becomes best friends with Zack, a kid who has just moved into the neighborhood, but the other critters shun Zack because he looks a bit different, until a new clubhouse brings them all together.
13) Internment
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
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) Freak show
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Having faced teasing that turned into a brutal attack, Christianity expressed as persecution, and the loss of his only real friend when he could no longer keep his crush under wraps, seventeen-year-old Billy Bloom, a drag queen, decides the only to become fabulous again is to run for Homecoming Queen at his elite, private school near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In New York City in the 1920s, the children from Chinatown go after the children from Little Italy for throwing rocks at the beautiful kites Grandfather Chin makes, not realizing that they have a reason for doing so.
16) Trouble
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A squirrel sees nothing but trouble in a bear newcomer who has terrible teeth, knife-like claws, and an oversized appetite, while her pet mouse perceives a new neighbor who is just trying to be friendly.
17) Perfect
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Since Celestine, eighteen, was declared a public menace, she has been on the run with Carrick, the one person she can trust, but she has a secret that may save all of those branded Flawed.
18) Dig
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
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