Dragonfly eyes by Cao, Wenxuan 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 933929 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 5.8 MG Lexile: 860

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life Multicultural

Subjects: Family life - Fiction Interracial marriage - Fiction Communism - Fiction Shanghai (China) - Fiction

Summary: Ah-Mei and her French grandmother, Nainai, share a rare bond. Politics and war make 1960s Shanghai a hard place to grow up, especially when racism and bigotry are rife, and everyone seems suspicious of Nainai's European heritage and interracial marriage. In this time of political upheaval, Ah-Mei and her family suffer much and when the family silk business is seized by the government, will the tender connection they share bring them enough strength to carry through?

How to find what you're not looking for by Hiranandani, Veera 

BTSB Prebound(Kokila, 2021)

BTSB #: 446478 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG Lexile: 690 F&P: X

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Jews - Fiction Family life - Fiction Bakeries - Fiction Interracial marriage - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg's life feels like the moment after the final guest leaves the party. Her family's Jewish bakery runs into financial trouble, and her older sister has eloped with a young man from India following the Supreme Court decision that strikes down laws banning interracial marriage. As change becomes Ariel's only constant, she's left to hone something that will be with her always-her own voice.

How to find what you're not looking for by Hiranandani, Veera 

Paperback(Kokila, 2022)

BTSB #: 446498 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG Lexile: 690 F&P: X

Genres:

Subjects: Jews - Fiction Family life - Fiction Bakeries - Fiction Interracial marriage - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg's life feels like the moment after the final guest leaves the party. Her family's Jewish bakery runs into financial trouble, and her older sister has eloped with a young man from India following the Supreme Court decision that strikes down laws banning interracial marriage. As change becomes Ariel's only constant, she's left to hone something that will be with her always-her own voice.

How to find what you're not looking for by Hiranandani, Veera 

Publisher Edition - Large Print Hardcover(Thorndike Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 446503 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Family Life Multicultural

Subjects: Large print books Family life - Fiction Interracial marriage - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction East Indian Americans - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg's life changes when her big sister elopes following the 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision, and she is forced to grapple with both her family's prejudice and the antisemitism she experiences, as she defines her own beliefs. Large print hardcover format.

Loving vs. Virginia : a documentary novel of the landmark civil rights case by Powell, Patricia Hruby 

BTSB Prebound(Chronicle Books, 2017)

BTSB #: 729811 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-16   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 5.4 9-12 Lexile: 720 HL F&P: Z+

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Loving, Richard Perry - Trials, litigation, etc. - Fiction Loving, Mildred Jeter - Trials, litigation, etc. - Fiction Novels in verse Interracial marriage - Fiction Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Virginia - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Virginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.

Mixed : a colorful story by Chung, Arree 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2018)

BTSB #: 214143 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 2 LG Lexile: 500 AD

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Color - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Toleration - Fiction Interracial marriage - Fiction Racially mixed people - Fiction

Summary: Each believing that their hue is the best, the three primary colors live in separate parts of the city until Yellow and Blue meet, fall in love, and decide to mix.

When Santa came to stay by Sharff, Billy 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2022)

BTSB #: 807606 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-7   
Lexile: 520 AD F&P: N

Genres: Holidays Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Stories in rhyme Santa Claus - Fiction Christmas - Fiction Interracial marriage - Fiction

Summary: What happens when your Christmas cookies are too good? Santa comes ... to stay! Then Mrs. Claus arrives. And Baby Claus. And before long, the Easter Bunny and her babies Chuck and Puck and Luck and Duck and ... you get the picture. As one family discovers, maybe the true meaning of Christmas is about more than presents and sweets.