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416780
Black kids by Hammonds Reed, Christina 

Paperback(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2020)

BTSB #: 416780 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.3 UG Lexile: 830 HL F&P: Z+

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 - Fiction Family life - California - Los Angeles - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Los Angeles (Calif.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.


10.65 *

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416784
Black kids by Hammonds Reed, Christina 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2020)

BTSB #: 416784 In Bindery

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.3 UG Lexile: 830 HL F&P: Z+

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 - Fiction Family life - California - Los Angeles - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Los Angeles (Calif.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.


311429
Jazz owls : a novel of the Zoot Suit Riots by Engle, Margarita 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2018)

BTSB #: 311429 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 6.8 MG+ Lexile: 1300

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Novels in verse Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943 - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Dancing - Fiction Sailors - Fiction Mexican Americans - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.


6.50 *

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597591
Scarf for Keiko by Malaspina, Ann 

BTSB Prebound(Kar-Ben, 2019)

BTSB #: 597591 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-8   
AR: 2.8 LG Lexile: 570

Genres: Multicultural Historical Fiction


Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Japanese Americans - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction Knitting - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: In Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, in 1942, after Sam's Japanese neighbor, Keiko, is sent to an internment camp with her family, he makes a special effort to send her a gesture of friendship.


597593
Scarf for Keiko by Malaspina, Ann 

Paperback(Kar-Ben, 2019)

BTSB #: 597593 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-8   
AR: 2.8 LG Lexile: 570

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Japanese Americans - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction Knitting - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: In Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, in 1942, after Sam's Japanese neighbor, Keiko, is sent to an internment camp with her family, he makes a special effort to send her a gesture of friendship.


6.55 *

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212029
Troublemaker by Cho, John 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2022)

BTSB #: 212029 In Bindery

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.3 MG

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Family life - California - Los Angeles - Fiction Korean Americans - Fiction Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: On the first night of rioting in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, Jordan's father leaves to check on the family store, spurring twelve-year-old Jordan and his friends to embark on a dangerous journey through South Central and Koreatown to come to his aid, encountering the racism within their community as they go.


21.38 *

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