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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are...
2) Someone new
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When three children, Jesse, Jason, and Emma, are confronted with new classmates from different ethnic backgrounds, they strive to overcome their initial reactions, and to understand, accept, and welcome Maria, Jin, and Fatima.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Indigenous Mexican is secretive about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body; she is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion; she must choose loyalty to her life-long best friend who is contemplating an even more profound change of life or the boy she likes"--
Author
Description
A baby is born to an English civil servant and a Hindu bride. When the truth is known about his heritage his father ejects him from his house. He is sold to a pair of eunuchs and taken to a backwater state in the Punjab. He escapes to Bombay and meets a drunken Englishman and reinvents himself as Jonathan Bridgeman
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
"Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. As they visit a strange new world and encounter even more adversaries, baby Hazel finally becomes a toddler, while her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana struggle to stay on their feet"--Back cover.