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800239
12 questions about slave narratives [Examining primary sources]by Sepahban, Lois 

BTSB Prebound(12-Story Library, 2017)

BTSB #: 800239 Available

Dewey: 306.3/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.8 MG RC: 5.4 6-8 Lexile: 830

Subjects: Slave narratives - United States


Summary: Tells the story behind the narratives formerly enslaved people wrote about their lives in captivity.


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Accused! : the trials of the Scottsboro boys: lies, prejudice, and the fourteenth amendment by Brimner, Larry Dane 

BTSB Prebound(Calkins Creek, 2019)

BTSB #: 151824 Available

Dewey: 973.9/NAges: 13-17   
AR: 8.3 UG Lexile: 1170

Subjects: Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931 Race relations Scottsboro (Ala.) Alabama


Summary: The story of the Scottsboro Boys, nine African-American teenagers who found their lives destroyed after two white women falsely accused them of rape.


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Alexander Hamilton [Making of America]by Kanefield, Teri 

BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2017)

BTSB #: 506548 Available

Dewey: 973.4092/BAges: 10-14   
AR: 8.7 MG RC: 11.6 6-8 Lexile: 1170 F&P: Z+

Subjects: Hamilton, Alexander,|d1757-1804 Statesmen United States - Politics and government|y1783-1809


Summary: The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor. He envisioned something else: a multi-racial, urbanized, capitalistic America with a strong central government. He believed that such an America would be a land of opportunity for the poor and the newcomers. But Hamilton's vision put him at odds with his archrivals who envisioned a pastoral America of small towns, where governments were local and states would control their own destiny.


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879081
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [Checkerboard biographies]by Thomas, Rachael L. 

BTSB Prebound(Abdo, 2020)

BTSB #: 879081 Available

Dewey: 328.7309/BAges: 8-11   
AR: 5.8 MG Lexile: 900

Subjects: Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria,|d1989- Legislators - United States - Biography Women legislators - United States - Biography Democratic Socialists of America Latinos (U.S.) Puerto Ricans - United States Bronx (New York, N.Y.)


Summary: A biography of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, including her early life, her beginnings in politics volunteering for Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, and Bernie Sanders, her election to the US Congress from New York, and more.


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All's faire in middle school by Jamieson, Victoria 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2017)

BTSB #: 487521 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 9-12   
AR: 3.4 MG RC: 3.5 3-5 Lexile: 460 GN F&P: V

Subjects: Graphic novels Renaissance fairs - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Family life - Fiction Friendship - Fiction


Summary: Homeschooled by Renaissance Fair enthusiasts, eleven-year-old Imogene has a hard time fitting in when her wish to enroll in public school is granted.


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Amina's voice by Khan, Hena 

BTSB Prebound(Salaam Reads, 2017)

BTSB #: 516469 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5 MG RC: 5.3 3-5 Lexile: 800

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Muslims - Fiction Pakistani Americans - Fiction Friendship - Fiction


Summary: A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family's vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school after tragedy strikes her community.


897626
Bar mitzvah boys by Uhlberg, Myron 

BTSB Prebound(Whitman, 2019)

BTSB #: 897626 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   


Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Bar mitzvah - Fiction Grandfathers - Fiction Jews - Fiction Concentration camps - Poland - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Fiction


Summary: Seventy years after he turned thirteen in a concentration camp, a man joins his beloved grandson in the Jewish ritual of coming of age when they are bar mitzvahed together.


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Between us and Abuela : a family story from the border by Perkins, Mitali 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2019)

BTSB #: 709670 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 2.9 LG

Genres: Holidays Family Life


Subjects: Gifts - Fiction Grandmothers - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Mexican Americans - Fiction Christmas - Fiction


Summary: When Maria, Juan, and their mother go to the border between California and Mexico to visit their grandmother at Christmas, Maria must devise a way to get Juan's gift over the fence.


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Black dove, white raven by Wein, Elizabeth 

BTSB Prebound(Disney/Hyperion, 2015)

BTSB #: 929509 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.8 UG Lexile: 900

Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction


Subjects: Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 - Fiction Americans - Ethiopia - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Air pilots - Fiction Adventure fiction Race relations - Fiction Adoption - Fiction Ethiopia - History|y1889-1974 - Fiction


Summary: Having moved to Ethiopia to avoid the prejudices of 1930s America, Emilia Menotti, her black adoptive brother Teo, and their mother Rhoda, a stunt pilot, are devoted to their new country even after war with Italy looms, drawing the teens into the conflict.


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Blind guide to Stinkville by Vrabel, Beth 

BTSB Prebound(Sky Pony Press, 2015)

BTSB #: 911867 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 5.4 6-8

Genres: General Fiction


Subjects: Albinos and albinism - Fiction Blind - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction Self-reliance - Fiction Moving - Fiction City and town life - South Carolina - Fiction South Carolina - Fiction


Summary: Leaving her best friend and the familiarity of Seattle for the paper mill town of "Stinkville," South Carolina, twelve-year-old Alice, who lives with albinism and blindness, takes on the additional challenge of entering the Stinkville Success Stories essay contest.


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595062
Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli by Maclear, Kyo 

BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2018)

BTSB #: 595062 Available

Dewey: 746.9/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 3.3 LG RC: 4.2 3-5 Lexile: 670

Subjects: Schiaparelli, Elsa,|d1890-1973 Fashion designers Women - Biography


Summary: A first-person account of the life of Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli.


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Book rescuer : how a mensch from Massachusetts saved Yiddish literature for generations to come by Macy, Sue 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster, 2019)

BTSB #: 595690 Available

Dewey: 20.75/BAges: 5-8   
AR: 5 LG Lexile: 890

Subjects: Lansky, Aaron,|d1955- National Yiddish Book Center (U.S.) - History Book collectors - Massachusetts - New Bedford - Biography Jewish men - Massachusetts - New Bedford - Biography Yiddish language - Revival


Summary: The story of one man's heroic effort to save the world's Yiddish books.


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Boy at the back of the class by Rauf, Onjali Q. 

BTSB Prebound(Yearling, 2020)

BTSB #: 740514 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.4 MG RC: 7.3 3-5 Lexile: 940

Genres: Multicultural


Subjects: Refugees - Fiction School stories Friendship - Fiction Syrians - England - London - Fiction London (England) - Fiction England - Fiction


Summary: When quiet, nine-year-old Ahmet arrives in their classroom, a boy and his friends fail to draw him out but try a new plan after learning he is a Syrian refugee.


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Boy in the black suit by Reynolds, Jason 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015)

BTSB #: 748642 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.8 MG+RC: 5.6 9-12 Lexile: 760 HL

Genres: Family Life


Subjects: Funeral homes - Fiction Funeral rites and ceremonies - Fiction Grief - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Family life - New York (State) - Brooklyn - Fiction Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction


Summary: Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.


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307161
Breadwinner : a graphic novel by Tanaka, Shelley 

BTSB Prebound(Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2018)

BTSB #: 307161 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 2.5 MG RC: 5.5 6-8 Lexile: 510 GN F&P: Z

Subjects: Taliban - Fiction Graphic novels Family life - Fiction Women's rights - Fiction Gender role - Fiction Disguise - Fiction Kabul (Afghanistan) - Fiction Afghanistan - Fiction


Summary: A graphic-novel adaptation of the story of eleven-year-old Parvana who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan.


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Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline 

BTSB Prebound(Nancy Paulsen, 2014)

BTSB #: 964784 Available

Dewey: 811/BAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.3 MG RC: 8.4 6-8 Lexile: 990

Subjects: Woodson, Jacqueline - Poetry American authors African American women authors


Summary: The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South.


506404
Charlie & Frog by Kane, Karen 

BTSB Prebound(Disney/Hyperion, 2018)

BTSB #: 506404 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.1 MG RC: 3.2 3-5

Genres: Mystery Fiction Humorous Fiction


Subjects: Mystery fiction Deaf - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction American Sign Language - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Grandparents - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Humorous fiction


Summary: Volume 1--While staying with his grandparents in Castle-on-the-Hudson, Charlie stumbles upon a mystery but must learn American Sign Language to keep up with Frog, a deaf girl who wants to help solve it.


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980189
Child of spring by Zia, F. 

BTSB Prebound(Peachtree, 2016)

BTSB #: 980189 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.2 MG RC: 3.7 3-5 Lexile: 640 F&P: U

Subjects: Social classes - Fiction Family life - India - Fiction Friendship - Fiction India - Fiction


Summary: In India, young Basanta struggles to accept her role as servant to a temperamental rich girl while dreaming of having a beautiful ring of her own.


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759442
Child of the dream : a memoir of 1963 by Robinson, Sharon 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2019)

BTSB #: 759442 Available

Dewey: 973.9209/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.9 MG

Subjects: Robinson, Sharon,|d1950- - Childhood and youth Robinson, Jackie,|d1919-1972 - Family African American girls - Connecticut - Stamford - Biography Bildungsromans - Connecticut - Stamford African Americans - Civil rights - History|y20th century Stamford (Conn.) - Race relations - History|y20th century


Summary: In January of 1963, Sharon Robinson turned thirteen the night before George Wallace declared on national television 'segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever' in his inauguration for governor of Alabama. That was the start of a year that would become one of the most pivotal years in the history of America. As the daughter of Jackie Robinson, Sharon had incredible access to some of the most important events of the era.


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871794
Cilla Lee-Jenkins : the epic story [Cilla Lee-Jenkins Volume: 3]by Tan, Susan 

BTSB Prebound(Roaring Brook Press, 2019)

BTSB #: 871794 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.3 MG

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Family problems - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction Authorship - Fiction Racially mixed people - Fiction Chinese Americans - Fiction


Summary: Epics are all about brave heroes overcoming struggles to save the world, and this year, Cilla is facing her toughest struggles yet as she hates the idea of starting middle school, has to deal with her two younger sisters who don't get along, and has to help her beloved grandfather learn English again after he suffers a stroke.


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