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Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
You don't have to be racist to be biased. Unconscious bias can be at work without our realizing it, and even when we genuinely wish to treat all people equally, ingrained stereotypes can infect our visual perception, attention, memory, and behavior. This has an impact on education, employment, housing, and criminal justice. In Biased, with a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Jennifer Eberhardt...
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Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
Author
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
150 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
"Pursued by their own herd and by human enemies, two young dragons embark on a dangerous journey. Ember and Brand must fly over mountains, desert and sea to save the life of a young boy--and the future of the Dragon Lords"--Page 4 of cover.
5) Point guard
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Series
Home team novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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"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"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
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Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
87 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
What do we tell our children when the world seems bleak, and prejudice and racism run rampant? With 96 lavishly designed pages of original art, poetry, and prose, fifty diverse creators lend voice and comfort to young activists.
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Many of us believe in equality, diversity, and inclusion, but how do we stand up for those values in our turbulent world? Chugh reveals the surprising causes of inequality, and offers practical tools to respectfully and effectively talk politics with family, to be a better colleague to people who don't look like you, and to avoid being a well-intentioned barrier to equality. Being the person we mean to be starts with a look at ourselves. -- adapted...
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"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) A mercy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love; first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith.
14) Bear and Bee
Author
Series
Bear and Bee volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A hungry bear discovers that bees are not terrible monsters who never share their honey.
15) Witness
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
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Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 5
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
290 p ; cm.
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Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
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Every person is unique, so assigning characteristics to everyone in a group, regardless of whether it's by race, religion, gender, or sexual preference, is a fool's errand. This book helps students put aside stereotypes and prejudices so that they can treat everybody as the individual they are.
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Casi, who is almost fourteen years old, has been skipping school and spending her days hidden among the hedges in a local park, listening to music and reading women's magazines. One day, Viejo, a fifty-year-old man, stumbles upon her hiding place, and the two strike up a friendship. He tells her about birds and Nina Simone, buys her soda and chips, and spends almost every day talking with her. Despite their age gap, there's something childlike about...
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Series
Legend of big heart volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
121 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
"The Land Grab is the story of Alfred Swallow and his Lower Brule Lakota family as they fend off attempts to take their land. In 1929 Alfred is eleven years old and has many responsibilities not expected of a young boy. He and his Lakota family are being forced to leave behind their tribal values and traditions and assimilate into mainstream of American culture and society. His grandfather has instilled in his grandson many Lakota traditions which...
20) Kit's home run
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
46 p. : col. ill. ; 15 cm.
Description
In 1933 Cincinnati, Kit is an enthusiastic baseball player whose home run slide has surprising consequences. Includes historical notes on major league baseball and the Cincinnati Reds in the 1930s and provides ideas for decorating a baseball cap.
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