Lupica, Mike
Summary: Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD LUPhooks, bell
Summary: The skin I'm in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story. The skin I'm in is just a covering. If you want to know who I am, you have got to come inside and open your heart way wide. Celebrating all that makes us unique and different, [this book] offers new ways to talk about race and identity. Race matters, but only so much-- what's most important is who we are on the inside. Looking beyond...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Jump at the Sun 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOOhooks, bell
Summary: The skin I'm in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story. The skin I'm in is just a covering. If you want to know who I am, you have got to come inside and open your heart way wide. Celebrating all that makes us unique and different, [this book] offers new ways to talk about race and identity. Race matters, but only so much-- what's most important is who we are on the inside. Looking beyond...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: LB Kids, imprint of Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: Sephy is a Cross- dark-skinned and beautiful, she lives a life of privilege and power. But she burns with injustice at the world she sees around her. Callum is a nought- pale-skinned and poor, he's considered to be less than nothing. But he dreams of a better life.Then - in spite of a world that is fiercely against them - these star-crossed lovers choose each other. But this is love story that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLACraft, Jerry
Summary: "Eight grader Drew Ellis is no stranger to the saying "You have to work twice as hard to be just as good." His grandmother has told him that his entire life. But lately he's been wondering: Even if he works ten times as hard, will he ever have the same opportunities that his privileged classmates at the prestigious Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted? To make matters worse, Drew...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CRASmith, Steven K.
Summary: "In 1959, the Prince Edward County, Virginia public schools closed. For five years. Back then, it wasn't over a health pandemic, but because county leaders refused to desegregate white and Black schools. So when long-hidden photographs surface from the student protests along Main Street in Farmville, Sam, Derek, and Caitlin are on the case to help identify the brave teenagers who stood for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Virginia Smith 2020Bundy, Tamara
Summary: After moving with her mother and deaf brother to Grandma's small Georgia town in the 1960s, Alice copes with feelings of isolation by befriending the elderly black woman who lives next door
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Bundy 2017Clayton, Dhonielle
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Ella Durand is the first Conjuror to attend the Arcanum Training Institute, a magic school in the clouds where Marvellers from around the world practice their cultural arts. Despite her excitement, Ella discovers that being the first isn't easy--some Marvellers mistrust her magic. Eventually, she finds friends in elixirs teacher, Masterji Thakur, and fellow misfits Brigit and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020