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2) Endangered
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Lauren (Panda), a teen photoblogger, gets involved in a deadly game, she has to protect the classmates she despises--
3) Warrior road
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008, c1974
Physical Desc
363 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
5) Jubilee
Author
Language
English
Description
The bestselling classic about a mixed-race child in the Civil War-era South that “chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondage” (TheNew York Times Book Review).
Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the antebellum South in both its opulence and its brutality, its wartime ruin,...
Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the antebellum South in both its opulence and its brutality, its wartime ruin,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Accustomed to leaving her frail young son with her neighbor, Mitch, while she goes to work, Pearl, a teenage mother, one day does not return, leaving Mitch and Leonard alone to grow up together and to become an unusual family.
11) The bad kid
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sunset Park, eleven-year-old Claudeline Feng LeBernardin hopes to take over the family business previously run by her mobster grandfather, but first she must try to uncover a local scam artist and salvage her friendship with her best friend and partner in crime, Fingerless Brett.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two girls on different timelines--each growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee--find their lives bridged by a mysterious portal. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, Gibney examines the absurdities of the adoptee experience through her own adoption experiences"--OCLC.
13) The way of love
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In 1879, Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor and use her gift to help the native populations. When she meets Andrew Gratton, an injured riverboat captain, a friendship grows between them--but will secrets and rising tensions prevent them from finding true happiness?"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"First published in December 1853, Clotel was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with one of his slaves. The story begins with the auction of his mistress, here called Currer, and their two daughters, Clotel and Althesa. The Virginian who buys Clotel falls in love with her, gets her pregnant, seems to promise marriage--then sells her. Escaping from the slave dealer, Clotel returns to Virginia disguised...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
cxii, 381 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Possibly the first novel written by a black woman slave, this work is both a historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical story in its own right.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A spellbinding debut about half sisters, one black and one white, on a 1950s road trip through the American South
Self-educated and brown-skinned, Cassie works full time in her grandmother's laundry in rural Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith falls for "colored music" and dreams of life as a big city radio star. These teenaged girls are half-sisters. And, when they catch wind of their wayward father's inheritance coming down in Virginia,...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"If you could choose your family...you wouldn't choose the Penningtons. One father. Four mothers. Five children. The author of the "brazenly hilarious, tell-it-like-it-is first novel" (Oprah Daily) Queenie, named Book of the Year by the British Book Awards, returns with another witty and insightful novel about the power of family--even when they seem like strangers. Dimple Pennington knows of her half siblings--Nikisha, Danny, Lizzie, and Prynce--but...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"London's daring new equestrienne finds love and an unexpected ally in her fight for independence in the strong arms of Victorian society's most sought after and devastatingly handsome half-Indian tailor. Evelyn Maltravers knows exactly how little she's worth on the marriage mart. As an incurable bluestocking from a family tumbling swiftly toward ruin, she knows she'll never make a match in a ballroom. Her only hope is to distinguish herself by making...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jackal and his fellow half-orcs patrol the barren wastes of the Lot Lands, spilling their own damned blood to keep civilized folk safe. A rabble of hard-talking, hog-riding, whore-mongering brawlers they may be, but the Grey Bastards are Jackal's sworn brothers, fighting at his side in a land where there's no room for softness. And once Jackal's in charge - as soon as he can unseat the Bastards' tyrannical, seemingly unkillable founder - there's...
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