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Joyce Carol Oates
(1,776)
Summary: When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades.
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Call #: F OATES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Harper Lee
Series:
To Kill A Mockingbird
(235,591)
Summary: Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout"--Returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and...
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Call #: LP F LEE
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Steve Watkins
(165)
Summary: In a small Florida mining town in 1966, twelve-year-old Dewey faces one worst-day-ever after another, but comes to know that the issues he faces about bullies, girls, race, and identity are part of the adult world, as well.
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Gennifer Choldenko
(2,701)
Summary: Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but...
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by
Matt de la Peña
(1,453)
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives for basketball and plays at school and at the Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream of playing professionally.
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Gennifer Choldenko
(2,701)
Summary: A fast-paced, provocative, funny story about two kids with an unlikely connection from Newbery Honor winner, Gennifer Choldenko. For Kirsten McKenna, the world is crumbling. Her parents are barely...
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by
Victoria Bond
Summary: A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and...
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Paul Volponi
Summary: When an African American high school student is beaten with a baseball bat in a white neighborhood, three boys are charged with a hate crime.
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by
Gary D Schmidt
(9,285)
Summary: Turner Buckminster can't find anything good to say about his first six hours in Phippsburg, Maine, where even baseball is a different game. He's about ready to light out for the Territories, where...
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by
Margaret McMullan
(244)
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there Sam encounters both love and hate as she...
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Deborah Wiles
(1,268)
Summary: A heartwarming novel that's ripe with memorable characters and delightful Southern details. House Jackson, age twelve, star pitcher and team captain of the Aurora County All-Stars, has a secret. For...
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by
James Lincoln Collier
Summary: While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier.
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by
Shana Burg
Summary: A bold work of historical fiction about one African American girl who finds her voice in segregated Mississippi. In Kuckachoo, Mississippi, 1963, Addie Ann Pickett worships her brother Elias and...
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Kristin Levine
Summary: In Moundville, Alabama, in 1917, twelve-year-old Dit hopes the new postmaster will have a son his age, but instead he meets Emma, who is black, and their friendship challenges accepted ways of...
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Han Nolan
Summary: Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family.
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by
Malorie Blackman
Series:
Naughts And Crosses Series - #1
(51,878)
Summary: In a world where the pale-skinned Naughts are discriminated against by the politically and socially powerful dark-skinned Crosses, teenagers Callum--a Naught--and Sephy--a Cross--test whether their...
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Call #: YA F BLACKMAN
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Vince Vawter
(9,641)
Summary: When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
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Call #: YA F VAWTER
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kiley Reid
(201,044)
Summary: Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira...
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Call #: F REID
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 4
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Kiley Reid
(193,698)
Summary: Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira...
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Call #: LP F REID
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Kiley Reid
(218,197)
Summary: Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira...
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Call #: CD BOOK F REID
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ellen Hopkins
(3,732)
Summary: A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse. It is bought by a teenager for needed protection. Several people have the incentive to pick up a gun, to fire it. Was it Rand or Cami, married...
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Call #: YA F HOPKINS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Angie Thomas
(519,639)
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when...
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Call #: YA CD BOOK F THOMAS
Location: YA CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Angie Thomas
(523,445)
Summary: After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
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Call #: BK CLUB YA F THOMAS
Locations: Book Club Sets, YA Fiction
copies in: 14 of 17
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Angie Thomas
(537,636)
Summary: After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
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Philip K Dick
(2,660)
Summary: A repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world. Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the...
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Amanda McCrina
(342)
Summary: In 1944, the Polish city of Lwów has been liberated from Germany but is caught among the insurgent armies of several countries and its resistance fighter; in this city, loyalty comes second to...
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Call #: YA F MCCRINA
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mildred D Taylor
(113,826)
Summary: The story of one African American family fighting to stay together and strong in the faceof brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s.
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Nic Stone
(48,138)
Summary: Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
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Call #: YA F STONE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Jennifer Latham (read by Luke Slattery )
(7,598)
Summary: Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, this novel brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations, both yesterday and today.
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Call #: YA CD BOOK F LATHAM
Location: YA CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Malorie Blackman
Series:
Noughts & Crosses - #2
(18,133)
Summary: Following Callum's death, the people who loved him relate how their lives have been changed, especially in reference to his girlfriend, Sephy, and their mixed-race child.
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Call #: YA F BLACKMAN
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Mike Lupica
(1,170)
Summary: Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many...
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Call #: YA F LUPICA
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Gennifer Choldenko
(2,701)
Summary: Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but...
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Call #: YA F CHOLDENKO
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jennifer Latham
(7,482)
Summary: "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,...
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Call #: YA F LATHAM
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Malorie Blackman
Series:
Noughts & Crosses - #5
(1,690)
Summary: Years have passed since the love between Sephy -- a Cross -- and Callum -- a Nought -- destroyed their world and changed their families and society forever. Society appears to be very different now....
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Call #: YA F BLACKMAN
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Attica Locke
Series:
Highway 59 Series - #1
(14,864)
Summary: When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star...
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Call #: F LOCKE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Attica Locke
Summary: When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star...
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Valerie Fraser Luesse
(899)
Summary: "There was another South in the 1960s, one far removed from the marches and bombings and turmoil in the streets that were broadcast on the evening news. It was a place of inner turmoil, where...
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Call #: F LUESSE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Elizabeth Wetmore
(25,851)
Summary: A debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s. It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great...
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Call #: F WETMORE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Brit Bennett
(205,004)
Summary: The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that...
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Call #: F BENNETT
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 6
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