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Other Words for Home: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

by Jasmine Warga
Paperback, 2021
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN AND GIRLS, MIDDLE GRADES, verse, Syria, 8 - 12 years, grades 3 - 7, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2033
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

All American Boys

by Jason Reynolds
Paperback, 2017
Tags
JUSTICE, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, TEEN, police brutality, racism, activism, protest
Barcode
2006
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Melissa (Previously Published as George)

by Alex Gino
Paperback, 2022
Tags
LGBTQIA, transgender, grades 4 - 6, chapter book, MIDDLE GRADES, GENDER, gender identity
Barcode
2069
Status
Checked out
Call number
813.6

A Different Pond

by Bao Phi
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, Vietnam, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, 6 - 8 years, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, PICTURE BOOK, Kirkus Starred Review, fishing, fathers and sons
Barcode
1482
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Watch Us Rise

by Renée Watson
Paperback, 2020
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, DIVERSITY, FAMILIES, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, FICTION, TEEN, Activism, feminism, women's rights, loss — 2 more, loss of parent, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1843
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Gender Queer: A Memoir

by Maia Kobabe
Paperback, 2019
Tags
GENDER, LGBTQIA, TEEN, NON-FICTION, memoir, graphic memoir, gender identity, coming out, nonbinary, Asexual, Stonewall Honor Book
Barcode
1768
Status
Available
Call number
741.5

One Crazy Summer

by Rita Williams-Garcia
Paperback, 2011
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, MIDDLE GRADES, civil rights, JUSTICE, FAMILIES, 9 - 12 years
Series
Gaither Sisters Trilogy (1)
Barcode
596
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World

by Ashley Herring Blake
Paperback, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, LGBTQIA, MIDDLE GRADES, 10 - 13 years, grades 3 - 7
Barcode
1064
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Joey Pigza Loses Control

by Jack Gantos
Paperback, 2014
Tags
BODIES AND ABILITIES, MIDDLE GRADES, ADD, ADHD, FAMILIES, divorce, alcoholism, fathers and sons
Series
Joey Pigza (book 2)
Barcode
1730
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People (ReVisioning American History for Young People)

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Paperback, 2019
Tags
JUSTICE, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, TEEN, 12 and up, history, American History, NON-FICTION, Native American, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Series
ReVisioning American History for Young People
Barcode
957
Status
Available
Call number
970.004

All American Boys

by Jason Reynolds
Paperback, 2017
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, FICTION, TEEN, police brutality, racism, protest
Barcode
956
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Cardboard Kingdom

by Chad Sell
Paperback, 2018
Tags
DIVERSITY, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, FAMILIES, LATINX, GENDER, WOMEN AND GIRLS, graphic novel, MIDDLE GRADES, grades 4 - 7
Series
The Cardboard Kingdom (1)
Barcode
993
Status
Available
Call number
741.5

The Invisible Boy

by Trudy Ludwig
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
DIVERSITY, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, PICTURE BOOK, Preschool - Grade 2, Friendship, inclusion, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, Korean, Kindness
Barcode
994
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

When Aidan Became a Brother

by Kyle Lukoff
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
GENDER, FAMILIES, LGBTQIA, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, PICTURE BOOK, Preschool - Grade 2, transgender, siblings, new baby, gender identity
Barcode
998
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Pet

by Akwaeke Emezi
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
LGBTQIA, GENDER, WOMEN AND GIRLS, FAMILIES, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, BODIES AND ABILITIES, JUSTICE, TEEN, 14 and up, FICTION, transgender — 5 more, selective mutism, sign language, gender identity, polyamory, Diverse families
Series
Pet (1)
Barcode
1038
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

by Kevin Noble Maillard
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, PICTURE BOOK, 3 - 6 years, Native American, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, Native author, own voices
Barcode
1055
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

I Can Make This Promise

by Christine Day
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, WOMEN AND GIRLS, grades 3 - 7, 8 - 12 years, Native American, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, Native author, own voices, Upper Skagit, adoption, JUVENILE — 2 more, FICTION, MIDDLE GRADES
Barcode
1056
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Makoons (Birchbark House)

by Louise Erdrich
Paperback, 2018
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, JUVENILE, Native American, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, Native author, own voices, Ojibwe, grades 3 - 7, FICTION, 8 - 12 years, MIDDLE GRADES
Series
The Birchbark House (5)
Barcode
1063
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance

by Nikki Grimes
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, poetry, MIDDLE GRADES, Grade 5 and up, Harlem Renaissance
Barcode
1028
Status
Available
Call number
811.54

We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World

by Malala Yousafzai
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN AND GIRLS, TEEN, 13 and up
Barcode
948
Status
Available
Call number
305.23092

They Called Us Enemy

by George Takei
Paperback, 2019
Tags
JUSTICE, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, TEEN, graphic memoir, memoir, Japanese American, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, Japanese internment
Barcode
1083
Status
Available
Call number
940.53

Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré

by Anika Aldamuy Denise
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, LATINX, PICTURE BOOK, books, Puerto Rico, 4 - 8 years, biography
Barcode
1119
Status
Available
Call number
020.92

The Undefeated

by Kwame Alexander
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, 6 - 12 years, poetry, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1120
Status
Available
Call number
811.6

SHOUT

by Laurie Halse Anderson
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, TEEN, sexual assault, rape, memoir, poetry, survival
Barcode
1109
Status
Available
Call number
811.6

With the Fire on High

by Elizabeth Acevedo
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, LATINX, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, FAMILIES, DIVERSITY, LGBTQIA, TEEN, grade 9 and up, coming of age, teen parent, grandmother — 2 more, Puerto Rico, cooking
Barcode
1194
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Frankly in Love

by David Yoon
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, TEEN, coming of age, Korean, Kirkus Starred Review, love, romance
Barcode
1145
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

by Phillip Hoose
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, 12 and up, MIDDLE GRADES, biography, civil rights
Barcode
1100
Status
Available
Call number
323.092

Guts

by Raina Telgemeier
Paperback, 2019
Tags
BODIES AND ABILITIES, WOMEN AND GIRLS, MIDDLE GRADES, 8 - 12 years, graphic memoir, anxiety, irritable bowel syndrome
Series
Smile (3)
Barcode
1103
Status
Available
Call number
155.4

They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems

by David Bowles
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
LATINX, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, MIDDLE GRADES, grades 5 - 8, Mexican immigrants, Mexican American, Mexico, poetry
Barcode
1193
Status
Available
Call number
811.6

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

by Jacqueline Kelly
Paperback, 2011
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, MIDDLE GRADES, 9 - 12 years
Series
Calpurnia Tate (1)
Barcode
1122
Status
Checked out
Call number
813.6

For Black Girls Like Me

by Mariama J. Lockington
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, FAMILIES, adoption, MIDDLE GRADES, moving, own voices, 9 - 11 years
Barcode
1147
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

New Kid

by Jerry Craft
Paperback, 2019
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, graphic novel, Friendship, 10 - 14 years, MIDDLE GRADES
Series
New Kid (1)
Barcode
942
Status
Available
Call number
741.5

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning

by Jason Reynolds
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, TEEN, racism, history
Barcode
1150
Status
Available
Call number
305.800973

How I Learned Geography

by Uri Shulevitz
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, grade 2 - 5, PICTURE BOOK
Barcode
833
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Hate U Give

by Angie Thomas
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, TEEN, FICTION, racism, police brutality, 14 and up, JUSTICE
Series
THUG (1)
Barcode
316
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation

by Duncan Tonatiuh
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
LATINX, JUVENILE, JUSTICE, social action, 6 - 9 years, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, NON-FICTION, Award winner, integration, school integration — 2 more, discrimination, Segregation
Barcode
1218
Status
Available
Call number
379.2

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women

by Charleyboy Editor
Paperback, 2017
Tags
TEEN, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, Native American, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, Native author, AICL best book award
Barcode
559
Status
Available
Call number
971.004

The Poet X

by Elizabeth Acevedo
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, LATINX, RELIGION, poetry, grade 8 and up, TEEN, FICTION
Barcode
563
Status
Checked out
Call number
813.6

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Commended)

by Javaka Steptoe
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUVENILE NON-FICTION, PICTURE BOOK, Art, Grade 1 - 5, LATINX, Haiti, Puerto Rico, art, artist
Barcode
1495
Status
Available
Call number
740.92

Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington

by Jabari Asim
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, black history, preschool - grade 3, JUSTICE, NON-FICTION
Barcode
825
Status
Available
Call number
370.92

The Season of Styx Malone

by Kekla Magoon
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, FAMILIES, Grade 3 - 7, siblings, Friendship, JUVENILE, foster care, FICTION, 8 - 12 years, MIDDLE GRADES
Barcode
932
Status
Available
Call number
813

Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court

by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, biography, sports, basketball, Islam, Activism, Grade 5 and up, RELIGION, JUSTICE, MIDDLE GRADES, TEEN
Barcode
759
Status
Available
Call number
796.323092

Clayton Byrd Goes Underground

by Rita Williams-Garcia
Paperback, 2018
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, fiction, African American family, racism, grades 3 - 7, FAMILIES, 8 - 12 years, MIDDLE GRADES
Barcode
818
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Long Way Down

by Jason Reynolds
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, 12 and up, Social issues, Family Life, TEEN
Barcode
930
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Arrival

by Shaun Tan
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, graphic novel, 10 and up, MIDDLE GRADES
Barcode
835
Status
Available
Call number
741.5

American Born Chinese

by Gene Luen Yang
Paperback, 2008
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, MIDDLE GRADES, grades 7-9, Chinese-American, assimilation, stereotypes, identity, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, graphic novel
Barcode
929
Status
Available
Call number
741.5973

Harbor Me

by Jacqueline Woodson
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, DIVERSITY, FAMILIES, incarcerated parent, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, LATINX, WOMEN AND GIRLS, 10 - 14 years, MIDDLE GRADES
Barcode
613
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Me And My Fear

by Francesca Sanna
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, 3 - 7 years
Barcode
611
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Ninth Ward

by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Paperback, 2012
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, FAMILIES, hurricaine, Katrina, MIDDLE GRADES
Series
The Louisiana Girls Trilogy (1)
Barcode
695
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Hate U Give Movie Tie-in Edition

by Angie Thomas
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, TEEN, FICTION, racism, police brutality, 14 and up, JUSTICE
Series
THUG (1)
Barcode
712
Status
Checked out
Call number
813.6
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