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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands explodes their promising life. What...
42) Made in America
Pub. Date
1993.
Description
Love, marriage, family. That's the usual sequence, but not for Sarah and Hal. They're the parents of bright, college-bound Zora; even thogh Sarah and Hal never met.
43) The nephew
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
A free-spirited nineteen-year-old has his work cut out for him when he comes to Ireland after his mother's death to discover the family he never knew and finds they are destroying each other over a bitter feud.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, but also the negative connotation...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Teenager Clawdeen Wolf never felt like she fit in, until her instincts led her to Monster High, where she discovered she's a werewolf and a human, and now feels at home in both worlds. She is befriended by Draculaura, Frankie Stein and Deuce Gorgon. These young monsters are learning who they are, defying expectations, disrupting the norm, and embracing their differences to make a difference. Together, they'll learn to be fierce and fearless at the...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
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Description
After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
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Description
"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
48) Ichiro
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After spending his life being raised in the United States, half-American, half-Japanese Ichiro feels out of place when he goes to Japan to stay with his grandfather. Soon after, Ichiro is dragged down a hole by a monster and realizes he has left the mortal world and entered the domain of the gods.
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