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"From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. North Carolina, 2018: 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: restore an old post...
3) Witness
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A series of poems expresses the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
Author
Publisher
Magic Attic Press
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
76 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Keisha is thrilled to be a lifeguard at an exclusive country club, but when another lifeguard's neglect causes a little boy almost to drown it is up to Keisha to rescue him.
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Language
English
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"Narrator Susan Bennett offers a moving performance of this multilayered story of two women whose lives are affected by a WPA mural...Overall, Bennett adds an exciting dimension to a gripping story of racism, madness, murder, and even romance." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
From New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes a novel of chilling intrigue, a decades-old disappearance, and
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to stand out in a family of five brothers and sisters, Maryellen draws more attention than she wants with a cartoon of her teacher on the first day of fourth grade.
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"[This novel] tells the story of Moshe Fisher, a man who was "born without skin," so that no one is able to tell what race he belongs to; and Arrienne Christie, his quixotic soul mate who makes it her duty in life to protect Moshe from the social and emotional consequences of his strange appearance. The narrative begins with Moshe's birth in the late 1950s, four years before Jamaica's independence from colonial rule, and ends in the era of what Forbes...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A young squirrel disagrees with his parents who want to exclude such newcomers as the blue jays, chipmunks, and beavers from the squirrels' woodland neighborhood.
10) Forest
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Amber accidentally triggers a war between humans and a community of squirrels, she finds out how similar the two species can be.
11) Saving Shiloh
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Papa Bear thinks that Thanksgiving is the best holiday of all, but his overreaction to the cubs' report of seeing Bigpaw in the woods teaches him an important lesson about the meaning of the day.
13) The land
Author
Publisher
Phyllis Fogelman Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the Civil War, Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.
14) Dig
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Mr. Lincoln, "the coolest principal in the whole world," discovers that Eugene, the school bully, knows a lot about birds, he uses this interest to help Eugene overcome his intolerance.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Summer of My German Soldier volume 1
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
[1973]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
230 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.
18) Land of promise
Author
Series
Publisher
Nelson
Pub. Date
[c1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
228p illus
Language
English
Description
Laura and the other inhabitants of Mansfield, Missouri, face the problems of racism and a clash of cultures when Chinese immigrants try to settle in the pioneer community
Author
Series
Thorndike Press large print The literacy bridge
Legacy of Orisha volume Book 1
Legacy of Orisha volume 1
Legacy of Orisha volume Book 1
Legacy of Orisha volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Zelie, 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.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
218 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.