Gragg, Sanya Whittaker
Summary: "Ten year old Avery is in a panic over the shooting of another unarmed black man. His parents decide it is time to have "The Talk." They teach him and his brother a catchy and easy way to remember what to do if approached by an officer, while also emphasizing that all policemen are not bad."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRABach, Richard
Summary: Because he spends so much time perfecting his flying form instead of concentrating on getting food, a seagull is ostracized by the rest of the flock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACParker, Robert B.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just after World War II, finds himself facing many new challenges as he tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with new feelings for his old friend Joanie, and discover the identity of the mysterious stranger who seems to be threatening his teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleuth Philomel 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PARTaylor, Mildred D.
Summary: Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year -- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she's black -- to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It is the land that gives the Logans their courage and pride -- no matter how others may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TAYMafi, Tahereh
Summary: A year after 9/11, Muslim teenager Shirin has completely withdrawn from social life, until she meets Ocean James in her biology class and is tempted to actually let her guard down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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Summary: Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into a camp for Muslim American citizens. With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the camp's Director and his guards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: YA PA FIC AHMWedelich, Sam
Summary: When Chicken Little runs into the Big Bad Wolf (literally), her first instinct is to fly, like the other chickens, but she decides to investigate instead--and finds that this particular wolf is not interested in eating chickens, he is just looking for a place to call home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WEDAdeyemi, Tomi
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ADECurtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African-American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CURFinnegan, Marco
Summary: In Southern California, during World War II, twin sisters Flaca and Cuata are harassed by soldiers stationed nearby, but a bigger problem arises when the lost member of an underground species, shaped like a five-foot-tall lizard, needs the sisters' help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 FINGalbraith, Bree
Summary: "Usha lives in a town where the sun hasn't shone for as long as anyone can remember. Only her grandfather remembers its brilliance and tells Usha stories about the time before other people took the sun away, building a wall to keep it all to themselves. So Usha decides to do something, and sets off in search of the sun. When at last Usha reaches the wall, she tries to kick it down, climb it,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2020
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHEAhmed, Samira
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHMAdeyemi, Tomi
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ADEChamberlain, Diane
Summary: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment is to restore an old post office mural in a sleepy southern...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Chamberlain 2020Chee, Traci
Summary: For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CHEHayes, Sean
Summary: In his small Georgia town, Barclay Elliot is basically a legend. Here basketball is all that matters, and no one has a bigger spotlight than Barclay. Until he decides to use the biggest pep rally in the town's history to come out to his school. And things change. Quickly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2023
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Summary: Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUGMorley, Isla
Summary: "A luminous narrative inspired by the fascinating real case of "the Blue People of Kentucky" that probes questions of identity, love, and family. In 1937, there are recesses in Appalachia no outsiders have ever explored. Two government-sponsored documentarians from Cincinnati, Ohio-a writer and photographer-are dispatched to penetrate this wilderness and record what they find for President...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MORPearsall, Shelley.
Summary: In 1945, thirteen-year-old Levi is sent to find the father he has not seen in three years, going from Chicago, to segregated North Carolina, and finally to Pendleton, Oregon, where he learns that his father's unit, the all-Black 555th paratrooper battalion, will never see combat but finally has a mission. Includes historical notes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library/Random House Audio 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PEAShukairy, Ream
Summary: Told in their separate voices, six Muslim teens are falsely accused of an alleged attack on a Los Angeles beach and must trust or turn their backs on each other to prove their innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2020
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Summary: Determined to out-hop his mud-dweller fate, the frog Tad embarks on a journey to return the Star King to space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic 2022
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Summary: Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books for Young Readers 2019