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• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

  Alexie, Sherman, 1966-

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  Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

• All You Have to Do

  Allen, Autumn,

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  Intertwining the stories of two Black students decades apart, this compelling and honest novel follows Kevin and Gibran as they navigate similar forms of insidious racism while discovering who they want to be instead of what society tells them they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chains

  Seeds of America

  Anderson, Laurie Halse

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  After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.

• The Pox Party

  Anderson, M. T.

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  Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Game of Love and Death

  Brockenbrough, Martha,

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  In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughters of Jubilation

  Corthron, Kara Lee,

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  In the Jim Crow South, white supremacy reigns and tensions are high. But Evalene Deschamps has other things to worry about. She has two little sisters to look after, an overworked single mother, and a longtime crush who is finally making a move. On…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Copper Sun

  Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)

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  Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.

• Jazz Owls

  a Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots

  Engle, Margarita

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  In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder.

• If I Ever Get Out of Here

  a Novel With Paintings

  Gansworth, Eric, 1965-

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  Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dream Country

  Gibney, Shannon,

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  Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people from one African American family chasing an elusive dream across centuries and continents. Gibney conjures an ambitious, sinuous novel from a family tree twisted to its breaking point by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Uncelebrated Narratives From Black History

  Gill, Joel Christian,

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  Strange Fruit is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity.

• The Black Kids

  Hammonds Reed, Christina,

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  With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.

• Dread Nation

  Rise Up

  Ireland, Justina,

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  Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania-- derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. Now laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Devil Darling Spy

  Killeen, Matt,

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  Sarah Goldstein--Jewish orphan turned secret weapon in the resistance against the Nazis--is hunting down a rogue German doctor whose germ warfare experiment could kill thousands with a single syringe. But her journey through Central Africa reveals…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In Darkness

  Lake, Nick

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  In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dreamland Burning

  Latham, Jennifer,

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  When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past. Alternating chapters tell the story of William, another teen grappling with the racial firestorm leading…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Downstairs Girl

  Lee, Stacey (Stacey Heather)

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  1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones

  McQueen, Daven,

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  It's the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he's sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mirror Girls

  McWilliams, Kelly,

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  Biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.

• Out of Darkness

  Pérez, Ashley Hope,

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  Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.