Victory. Stand! : raising my fist for justice by Smith, Tommie 

BTSB Prebound(Norton Young Readers, 2022)

BTSB #: 827224 Available

Dewey: 796.4209/AAges: 12-18   
AR: 5.9 UG

Genres:

Subjects: Smith, Tommie,|d1944- Olympic Games|n(19th :|d1968 : - Mexico City, Mexico) Track and field athletes - United States - Biography African American athletes - Biography African American athletes - Biography - Comic books, strips, etc

Summary: A groundbreaking and timely memoir in graphic novel format from one of the most iconic figures in American sports-and a tribute to his fight for civil rights. On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans. Both men were forced to leave the Olympics.

We deserve monuments by Hammonds, Jas 

BTSB Prebound(Roaring Brook Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 416776 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5 UG

Genres: Family Life Mystery Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Family problems - Fiction Secrets - Fiction Racism - Fiction Lesbians - Fiction African Americans - Fiction

Summary: When seventeen-year-old Avery moves to rural Georgia to live with her ailing grandmother, she encounters decades-old family secrets and a mystery surrounding the town's racist past.

When the angels left the old country by Lamb, Sacha 

BTSB Prebound(Levine Querido, 2022)

BTSB #: 538325 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 6.8 UG

Genres: Supernatural

Subjects: Angels - Fiction Demonology - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Missing persons - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction United States - Immigration and emigration - Fiction

Summary: Uriel the angel and Little Ash the demon are the only two supernatural creatures in their small town. The search for a new life has drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young people, Essie, goes missing, Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her. Along the way the angel and demon encounter humans in need of their help. But there are obstacles ahead of them as difficult as what they've left behind.

Where wonder grows by Gonzalez, Xelena 

BTSB Prebound(Cinco Puntos Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 385689 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-8   
AR: 4.2 LG F&P: S

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Grandmothers - Fiction Wonder - Fiction Nature - Fiction

Summary: Three girls follow their grandmother into her garden, where they examine her collection of rocks, crystals, shells, and meteorites and learn about the marvels they reveal.

Wildoak by Harrington, C. C. 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 421059 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.8 MG

Genres: Animals

Subjects: Stuttering - Fiction Human-animal relationship - Fiction Snow leopards - Fiction Leopards - Fiction Self-confidence - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Maggie's stutter causes her much heartache and only her menagerie of pets, whom she can speak with fluidly, provide her comfort, but when she finds Rumpus, an abandoned snow leopard in a forest in Cornwall, their chance encounter will change their lives forever.

Words we keep by Stewart, Erin 

BTSB Prebound(Delacorte Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 854262 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.6 UG Lexile: 680 HL

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Mental illness - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Anxiety - Fiction

Summary: When sixteen-year-old Lily Larkin's older sister, Alice, begins to struggle with her mental health, Lily attempts to keep everything together and perfect, despite her own growing anxiety.