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Araboolies of Liberty Street

Sam Swope; Illustrations by Barry Root Square Fish

The kids of Liberty Street join forces to help the Araboolies when mean General Pinch orders them to move because they look different.

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Leon's Story

Leon Walter Tillage; Illustrated by Susan L. Roth Sunburst Paperbacks

"Leon's Story is a powerful, wonderful thing!" -- Nikki Giovanni I remember that as a young boy I used to look in the mirror and I would curse my color, my...

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Beegu

Alexis Deacon; Pictures by the author Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The story of an alienated alien Beegu’s spacecraft is stranded on Earth. Now she is lost and wandering. Waiting for a rescue signal from her mother,...

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Bone by Bone by Bone

Tony Johnston Roaring Brook Press

FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN WHITE AND BLACK in 1950s Tennessee. Tony Johnston draws on her own childhood memories to limn a portrait of a sensitive and compassionate...

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Trade Paperback : $9.99 Buy	Desire Lines Jack Gantos Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR Paper Sixteen-year-old Walker has discovered something potentially scandalous—two of his female classmates are having an affair. It is a secret he has no problem...

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Jericho Walls

Kristi Colllier Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks

A beautifully written story about the power of friendship in the face of racism Jo Clawson isn’t the boy her father wanted, and she’s not the young “lady”...

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Dangerous Skies

Suzanne Fisher Staples Sunburst Paperbacks

A Season of Change Along the Virginia shoreline where their families have lived for generations, Buck and Tunes Smith defy tradition. Raised together like...

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Francie

Karen English Square Fish

The Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel, set in the 1940s segregated South, of a girl whose act of moral courage endangers her family.

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The Year They Burned the Books

Nancy Garden Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Trade Paperback : $8.99 Buy	When the Circus Came to Town Polly Horvath Sunburst Paperbacks A hilarious satire on small-town prejudice It all started with the Halibuts. Then came Elmira Degoochy the snake lady. Then the Flying Gambinis -- all seven...

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Firegold

Dia Calhoun Sunburst Paperbacks

Thirteen-year-old Jonathon, feared and hated by the brown-eyed Valley people because of his blue eyes, tries to find answers to his true identity in the Red...

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Time's Memory

Julius Lester Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Amma is the creator god, the master of life and death, and he is worried. His people have always known how to take care of the spirits of the dead – the nyama...

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Last Child

Michael Spooner Henry Holt and Co.

A mixed-race girl must grow up quickly when danger threatens her world Rosalie’s biggest problem used to be her own divided feelings. The constant...

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Escape by Night

A Civil War Adventure

Laurie Myers; illustrations by Amy June Bates Henry Holt and Co.

Ten-year-old Tommy and his sister Annie are intrigued by the new soldiers arriving in their Georgia town. Since the Civil War started, wounded men waiting to...

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1968

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by Michael Kaufman Roaring Brook Press

1968, THE YEAR AMERICA GREW UP From racial and gender equality fights to the struggle against the draft and the Vietnam war, in 1968 Americans asked...

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Hardcover : $16.99 Buy	Chocolate Me! Taye Diggs; Illustrated by Shane W. Evans Feiwel & Friends The boy is teased for looking different than the other kids. His skin is darker, his hair curlier. He tells his mother he wishes he could be more like everyone...

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Me and Rupert Goody

written by Barbara O’Connor Sunburst Paperbacks

Learning to share love Things at Jennalee's house are just plain crazy, which is why she loves her predictable days helping Uncle Beau (who isn't really her...

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Under the Same Sky

Cynthia DeFelice Square Fish

A teenager discovers racism and romance on his father’s farm For his fourteenth birthday, Joe Pedersen wants a motorbike that costs nearly a thousand...

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Landed

Milly Lee; Pictures by Yangsook Choi Frances Foster Books

Sun is ready to leave his village in China for America, the place known as Gum Saan, Gold Mountain. His father warns him, though, that passage will not be...

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The Invisible

Mats Wahl; Translated by Katarina Tucker Farrar, Straus and Giroux

One ordinary Monday morning in May, Hilmer Eriksson walks into his high school classroom and discovers that he has become invisible. No one can see him, no one...

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The Year the Gypsies Came

Linzi Glass Henry Holt and Co.

Set in apartheid South Africa, this powerful and lyrically written novel is Linzi Glass’s debut. As twelve-year-old Emily Iris explains it, her mother and...

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Hardcover : $17.95 Buy	The Train Jumper Don Brown A Deborah Brodie Book OUT OF WORK AND OUT OF LUCK. Ed "Collie" Collier encounters hobos, misers, racists, and even some kindness while riding the rails during the Great...

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Keesha's House

Helen Frost Sunburst Paperbacks

An unforgettable narrative collage told in poems Keesha has found a safe place to live, and other kids gravitate to her house when they just can’t make it...

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Rosa

Nikki Giovanni; Illustrated by Bryan Collier Square Fish

Winner of the Caldecott Honor Medal and the Coretta Scott King Medal, this picture book tribute to Rosa Parks celebrates the 50th anniversary of her refusal to...

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