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1) Bat 6
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In small town, post-World War II Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.
3) Trouble
Author
Publisher
Clarion
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog. But fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
8) Slam!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.
Coretta Scott King author award book : 1997.
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In Georgia during the summer of 1976, Gabriel, a white boy who is being bullied, and Frita, an African American girl who is facing prejudice, decide to overcome their many fears together as they enter fifth grade.
10) Buttermilk bear
Author
Publisher
Price Stern Sloan
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Though their parents disapprove, Buttermilk the rabbit and Jingle the bear meet and become friends.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While trying to earn money for a motor bike, fourteen-year-old Joe Pederson becomes involved with the Mexicans who work on his family's farm and develops a better relationship with his father.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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...
13) Point guard
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"It's basketball season for the home team but Gus must wrestle with prejudice when he's the only one bothered by Cassie joining the boys' team and his teammate Steve makes fun of Gus's Dominican heritage"--
Author
Publisher
Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.
15) EDENVILLE OWLS
Author
Publisher
Sleuth Philomel
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just after World War II, finds himself facing many new challenges as he tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with new feelings for his old friend Joanie, and discover the identity of the mysterious stranger who seems to be threatening his teacher.
16) Hooper
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam's basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he's tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
Newbery honor book: 1996.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, Penguin Young Readers Group, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As young rabbit siblings excitedly share the news that rats have moved into their building, worried neighbors inform them that rats are dirty, thieving, and destructive--but are they?
19) Linked
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Challenging perceptions of discrimination and prejudice, three different women navigate challenges in a changing school district--and in their lives. When an impoverished school district loses its accreditation, the affluent community of Crystal Ridge has no choice but to open their school doors. Tensions rise, culminating in an unforeseen event that impacts them all"--
When an impoverished Missouri school district loses its accreditation, the affluent...
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