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African Americans Juvenile fiction Baseball Fiction Families Juvenile fiction Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Juvenile fiction New York (N.Y.) Juvenile fiction Racially mixed children Racially mixed children Fiction Racially mixed children Juvenile fiction Racially mixed families Juvenile fiction Racially mixed people FictionVan Niekerk, Colleen
Summary: South Africa, 1994. Against a backdrop of apartheid and racial violence, Yolanda Petersen returns to the land of her youth at the behest of her mother. While there Yolanda longs to reconnect with her estranged daughter, Ingrid, the product of an illegal mixed-race affair with a white man. But Ingrid is missing, and as Yolanda quickly discovers, she isn't the only woman in Cape Town desperate to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little a 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANOyeyemi, Helen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OYELansens, Lori.
Summary: When she volunteers to take in five-year-old Sharla Cody for the summer, eighty-year-old Addy Shadd forms a powerful bond with Sharla that prompts her to recollect her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANLemmie, Asha
Summary: "From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance-and the unexpected ally that will change everything-in post-World War II Japan. Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lemmie 2020Thompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: On her way into Chinatown to deliver a baby, midwife-turned-sleuth Sarah Brandt encounters a group of Irish women, without family at Ellis Island, who had married Chinese men in the same predicament, and finds herself searching for the new mother's half-Irish, half-Chinese niece.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THODurrow, Heidi W.
Summary: After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DURCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DurDurrow, Heidi W.
Summary: The daughter of a Danish immigrant and a black G.I., Rachel survives a family tragedy only to face new challenges. Sent to live with her strict African-American grandmother in a racially divided northwest city, she must suppress her grief and reinvent herself in a mostly black community. A beauty with light brown skin and blue eyes, she attracts much attention in her new home. The world wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DURSmith, Zadie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIMacalino Rutledge, Renee
Summary: A joyful story for multicultural and mixed families! One Hundred Percent Me takes young readers along a little girl's exploration of her mixed race identity. The story celebrates our differences as she learns how to claim her belonging and honor the heritage that makes her unique and wholly herself!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloom Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Ulysses Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MACKelly, Erin Entrada
Summary: Marisol Rainey's mother was born in the Philippines. Marisol's father works and lives part-time on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. And Marisol, who has a big imagination and likes to name inanimate objects, has a tree in her backyard she calls Peppina, but she's way too scared to climb it. This all makes Marisol the only girl in her small Louisiana town with a mother who was born elsewhere...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "Nina's visits to her two faraway grandmothers-one in Malaysia and one in England-unfold side-by-side, featuring similarities and differences between the two"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FERDiggs, Taye
Summary: Told in rhyming text, Mike is a mixed-race boy, completely comfortable with his identity and his parents--and his wild, curly hair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DIGGlaser, Karina Yan
Summary: In this new adventure in the New York Times bestselling series, the Vanderbeekers depart Harlem to celebrate their dad's birthday. But their surprise road trip turns rocky when the younger kids try to keep their family from ever facing change. Our beloved Harlem family is putting the VAN in Vanderbeekers as they hit the highway to give their dad the best birthday surprise EVER! Re-creating a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GLABrown, William Wells
Summary: Includes memoirs, travel writings, fiction, and history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROGlaser, Karina Yan
Summary: The Vanderbeekers are looking forward to the wedding of two of their favorite people. But when one of the siblings receives a dire diagnosis, instead of preparing for a celebration, the family is suddenly spending their time at the hospital. And soon they are helping a critically ill friend, even as they struggle with how their own lives have turned upside down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC GLAAlikhan, Salima
Summary: In 1970 thirteen-year-old Marika dreams of going to Harvard to study economics, but her parents both believe that a woman's place is in the home; Marika does not understand why they are so attached to "traditional values," especially since they defied convention when they were married at a time when interracial marriages were illegal in many states--so Marika defies her parents and joins her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ALIGlaser, Karina Yan
Summary: The Vanderbeekers depart Harlem to celebrate their dad's birthday. But their surprise road trip turns rocky when the younger kids try to keep their family from ever facing change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC GLAHiguera, Donna Barba
Summary: "Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy ... like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so much...like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIGQuigley, Dawn
Summary: "Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Dakota State University Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC QUICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC QUIWard, Jesmyn
Summary: Ward (Salvage the Bones) tells the story of three generations of a struggling Mississippi family in this astonishing novel. "We don't walk no straight lines. It's all happening at once. All of it. We all here at once." This is the explanation 13-year-old Jojo is provided by his grandmother, the family matriarch, on her deathbed. "I'll be on the other side of the door," she reassures him, "With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WARBarnes, Julian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BARBarnes, Julian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARChang, Janie
Summary: After being abandoned by her mother in 1908 Shanghai, a young Eurasian girl, Jialing, becomes the bondservant to the new owners of a grand estate until she befriends a young English girl who mysteriously disappears and forever changes her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P CHAGlaser, Karina Yan
Summary: One hilarious Harlem family is on a mission to find the perfect way to celebrate their Papa's fortieth birthday while discovering more about their mysterious grandparents in this heartfelt romp and latest installment to the New York Times best-selling series, perfect for fans of the Penderwicks. It's summer on 141st Street, and the Vanderbeekers are looking forward to Papa's surprise fortieth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021