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In this classic novel from the Harlem Renaissance, a biracial musician living in the Jim Crow era chooses to pass as white and deals with the consequences.
First published in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex—Colored Man is the story of an unnamed, light-skinned, biracial narrator born in a small Georgia town, during the years following the Civil War. He knows nothing about race, until he and his Black mother move to Connecticut and an episode at...
22) Amazing Grace
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
23) Look
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[2020]
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352 pages ; 22 cm
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"While falling in love with the mysterious Cass, Lulu sheds her carefully crafted social media persona and takes ownership of who she is in this feminist, queer coming-of-age story"--
24) Ghost legion
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Against the backdrop of the War for Independence, two intriguing storylines emerge. Stuart Brodie is a black freedman from Charles Town who owns a tavern in the backcountry of South Carolina. On his return from the war, he finds his younger brother, Ezekiel, hanging from the limb of a tree, his tavern burned to the ground, and a note warning any passerby that this is what lies in store for all Tories. Knowing that the guilty party was allied with...
25) My shape is Sam
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2019.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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In a place where jobs are based on shape, Sam, who looks like a square but longs to roll like a circle, discovers his true, unique shape.
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Greenglass House volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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"Twelve-year-old Milo is stuck spending the winter holidays in a house full of strange guests who are not what they seem-again! He will have to work with friends old and new to uncover clues in search of a mysterious map and a famous smuggler's lost haul"--
28) The mesmerist
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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"Thirteen-year-old Jess and her mother make a living as sham spiritualists--until they discover that Jess is a mesmerist and that she really can talk to the dead. Soon she is plunged into the dark world of Victorian London's supernatural underbelly and learns that the city is under attack by ghouls, monsters, and spirit summoners"--
29) Mistaken twin
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"When someone attacks her at the shop, Jenna Clark knows her secret identity has been compromised. The killer she's been hiding from has found her...or has he? Police officer Wyatt Stephens vows to protect her, but he doesn't trust that she's telling him the whole truth. Is the killer after Jenna, or has he mistaken her for her dead twin?"
30) Fragments
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Partials sequence volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
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With the Help of Samm and Heron, Kira sets out on a desperate search for clues as to who she is, while Marcus and the remaining human population gear up for war with the Paritals.
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[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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229 pages 22 cm.
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Told in multiple voices, seventh-grader Libby sets off a chain of events that brings hope and encouragement to four different individuals across the country who are dealing with bullies, acceptance, homelessness, and grief.
35) Still missing
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2010
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342 p. ; 24 cm.
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Captured by a psychopath posing as an interested house buyer, realtor Annie spends a brutally traumatic year in captivity in a remote mountain cabin and recounts her experiences and dramatic escape to her therapist while agonizing over the ongoing policesearch for her captor.
37) The good guy
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2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Timothy Carrier is sitting in a bar when the man next to him mistakes him for someone else and hands him an envelope with $10,000. The man leaves after handing Tim a photo of a woman marked for death and her address. Soon the killer arrives believing Tim is the one who wants to hire him.
38) Passing: a novel
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A novel on social climbing among blacks. The heroine is Eulelie Giles of Baltimore who believes in staying within one's class. She faces her big test when a son decides to marry below his station.
39) Am I yours?
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2018.
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IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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"Some friendly dinosaurs must help a lost egg after it's blown out of its nest. But if they are to reunite the little egg with its true parents, they must first discover what kind of dinosaur lies inside"--
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With her success riding on her ability to keep her real identity secret, Zillah, an orphan from the slums of London who has achieved theatrical fame as The Great Amazonia, "a savage queen from darkest Africa," finds her planning upended when she is torn between two men--a mysterious black gentleman and her boss's friend who offers her the world.
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