Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Troth Montgomery, daughter of a Chinese mother and Scottish father, meets and falls in love with viscount and adventurer Kyle Rebourne after he persuades her to act as guide on a dangerous journey into the heart of China, but he is captured and condemned to death, and after a hasty prison cell marriage, Troth travels to England where she attempts to rebuild her life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A contemporary New York noir coming-of-age story - Nineteen-year-old Hootie has been in trouble all his life. An outsider, his father was Crow Indian; his mother is black; but Hootie is neither black, nor white, nor Latino, nor Asian. When he meets Bubba Yablonsky, the biggest white man he's ever seen, at a subway station in Harlem, he knows something's up. Then Bubba opens fire at an innocent rat before offering Hootie money and a place to live....
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Surprised by her scientist father's gift of a robot for her birthday, ten-year-old Celia comes to appreciate its help in organizing her chaotic day-to-day life until it suddenly mysteriously disappears.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
The lives of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and country lawyer George Edalji intersect when Doyle becomes interested in investigating the case of Edalji who has been wrongfully convicted of writing obscene letters and mutilating cattle in a case clearly influenced by racial prejudice.
10) Full cicada moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Reluctant orphan-turned-spy Max Segredo discovers intrigue at the Merry Sunshine Orphanage and must confront an international group bent on world domination, while uncovering mysteries from his past.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: when her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. When she travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time, Leigh is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents. And as she grieves, she must try to reconcile the fact that on the same day...
Author
Series
Western mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1862 Nevada Territory, after finding his foster parents murdered and scalped, twelve-year-old Pinky Pinkerton, son of a railroad detective and a Sioux Indian, inherits a valuable deed and must hide from dangerous Whittlin Walt and his gang of desperados.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more"--
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Albie has never been the smartest, tallest, best at gym, greatest artist, or most musical in his class, as his parents keep reminding him, but new nanny Calista helps him uncover his strengths and take pride in himself.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request