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716094
Angel of Greenwood by Pink, Randi 

Paperback(Square Fish, 2022)

BTSB #: 716094 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   


Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Tulsa (Okla.), Tulsa Race Massacre, 1921. - Fiction African Americans - Violence against - Oklahoma - Tulsa - History|y20th century Race relations. - Fiction Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) - Race relations - History|y20th century


Summary: Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet. Sixteen-year-old Angel Hill is a loner, mostly disregarded by her peers as a goody-goody. Though they've attended the same schools, Isaiah never noticed Angel. But life changes on May 31, 1921 when a vicious white mob storms the community of Greenwood, leaving the town destroyed and thousands of residents displaced. Isaiah, Angel, and their peers realize who their real enemies are.


9.01 *

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280269
At Night All Blood Is Black: A Novel by Diop, David 

Paperback(Picador)

BTSB #: 280269 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   


Summary: Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who finds himself fighting as a so-called Chocolat soldier with the French army during World War I. When his village friend Mademba Diop is mortally wounded in battle, Mademba begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long death in no-man’s-land. But Alfa can’t bring himself to strike down a man who is like a brother to him, and Mademba dies in agony.


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804724
Awakening of Malcolm X by Shabazz, Ilyasah 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2021)

BTSB #: 804724 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-18   
AR: 4.6 UG Lexile: 650 HL

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: X, Malcolm,|d1925-1965 - Childhood and youth - Fiction Prisoners - Fiction Reformers - Fiction Racism - Fiction Civil rights - Fiction Black Muslims - Fiction African Americans - Fiction


Summary: While in Charlestown Prison in the 1940s, young Malcolm Little reads all the books in the library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam, and emerges as Malcolm X.


22.58 *

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649391
Book Collectors: A Band Of Syrian Rebels And The Stories That Carried Them Through A War by Minoui, Delphine 

Paperback(Picador)

BTSB #: 649391 Available

Dewey: 956.9104/BAges: 12-16   


Summary: Daraya—a town outside Damascus known for its peaceful resistance to the Assad regime was under siege. No one entered or left, and aid was blocked, while every day, bombs rained down on homes, schools, families, and children. In the midst of this destruction, a group searching for survivors stumbled upon a cache of books in the rubble. A library was born, filled with a marvelous range of books.It was a sanctuary where people could escape the blockade.


13.94 *

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710352
Buses Are A Comin': Memoir Of A Freedom Rider by Person, Charles 

Paperback(Bedford/St. Martins)

BTSB #: 710352 Available

Dewey: 323.092/BAges: 12-16   


Summary: At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female activists set out to discover whether America would abide by a Supreme Court decision that ruled segregation unconstitutional in bus depots, waiting areas, restaurants, and restrooms nationwide. Provides a front-row view of the struggle to belong in America.


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272883
Code Name Badass: The True Story Of Virginia Hall by Demetrios, Heather 

Paperback(Atheneum)

BTSB #: 272883 Available

Dewey: 940.54/BAges: 14-18   


Summary: Virginia Hall was behind enemy lines, playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Hitler’s henchmen. When the State Department proved to be a sexist boys’ club that wouldn’t let her in, she gave the finger to society’s expectations of women and became a spy for the British. This boss lady helped arm and train the French Resistance and organized sabotage missions. There was just one problem: The Butcher of Lyon, a notorious Gestapo commander, was after her.


10.65 *

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961713
Disability visibility : first-person stories from the twenty-first century

Paperback(Vintage Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 961713 Available

Dewey: 305.9/CAges: 13-18   


Subjects: People with disabilities - United States - Biography People with disabilities - United States - Social conditions


Summary: A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience. Brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are affected. It looks to the future and the past with hope and love.


13.94 *

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138389
Firekeeper's daughter by Boulley, Angeline 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2021)

BTSB #: 138389 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.1 UG Lexile: 720 HL

Genres: Multicultural


Subjects: Crime - Fiction Drugs - Fiction Undercover operations - Fiction Family life - Michigan - Fiction Racially mixed people - Fiction Ojibwa Indians - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Michigan - Fiction Michigan - Fiction


Summary: Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.


517166
Good Girls Don't Make History by Kiehner, Elizabeth 

Paperback(Wide-Eyed Editions)

BTSB #: 517166 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 12-18   


Summary: Reliving moments from the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Alice Paul, Ida B. Wells, and Susan B. Anthony, these inspiring stories are boldly told from one of the most formative eras in women’s history—the fight for the vote in the United States. The tale begins at a modern-day polling station in California with a mother and daughter voting together. In graphic novel format.


14.75 *

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Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia 

BTSB Prebound(Make Me A World, 2021)

BTSB #: 305534 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
Lexile: NP

Genres: Multicultural


Subjects: Children of immigrants - Fiction Muslims - Fiction High school students - Fiction Hate crimes - Fiction Novels in verse


Summary: In this novel written in free verse, Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider. And most recently, by her childhood friend. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life not chosen and she might have to fight for it with a fierceness she never knew she had.


040565
How To Be A Global Citizen: Be Informed. Get Involved.

Paperback(Random House )

BTSB #: 040565 Available

Dewey: 323/NAges: 10-14   


Summary: An illustrated guide to how we can all make a difference in our local and global communities. Covers topics such as politics and voting, how to be responsible with online communication, preventing unfair discrimination, and protecting our environment.


16.39 *

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320942
Huda F are you? by Fahmy, Huda 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 320942 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 13-18   
Lexile: 560 HL

Subjects: Muslims - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Humorous fiction Graphic novels


Summary: Huda F. is starting high school in a new town and needs to figure out where she fits in. In graphic novel format.


20.48 *

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980172
In the wild light by Zentner, Jeff 

BTSB Prebound(Ember, 2022)

BTSB #: 980172 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 4.5 UG

Genres: General Fiction


Subjects: Best friends - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Grief - Fiction Loss (Psychology) - Fiction Private schools - Fiction School stories


Summary: Attending an elite prep school in Connecticut on scholarship with his best friend (and secret love) science genius Delaney Doyle, sixteen-year-old Cash Pruitt, from a small town in East Tennessee, struggles with emotional pain and loss until his English teacher suggests writing poetry.


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Last night at the Telegraph Club by Lo, Malinda 

BTSB Prebound(Dutton Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 581271 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 6.3 UG Lexile: 900

Genres: Multicultural Historical Fiction


Subjects: Lesbians - Fiction Communism - Fiction Chinese Americans - Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) - Fiction California - History|y1950- - Fiction


Summary: With the threat of deportation looming over her father--in spite of his hard-won citizenship and disavowal of Communism--seventeen-year-old American-born Chinese Lily Hu pursues a relationship with her Caucasian classmate Kath.


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Luck of the Titanic by Lee, Stacey 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2021)

BTSB #: 556530 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.2 MG+ Lexile: 760 HL

Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction Family Life


Subjects: Titanic (Steamship) - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Twins - Fiction Chinese - England - Fiction


Summary: After smuggling herself onto the RMS Titanic, British-Chinese teenager Valora Luck reunites with her twin brother and tries to convince him that their acrobatic training could be their ticket to a better life.


23.28 *

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596689
Revolution in our time : the Black Panther Party's promise to the people by Magoon, Kekla 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 596689 Available

Dewey: 305.8/NAges: 12-16   
AR: 9.2 MG

Subjects: Black Panther Party African Americans - Civil rights Marxism Socialism Social action Race relations


Summary: Introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens.


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Rise up! : how you can join the fight against white supremacy by Fleming, Crystal Marie 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2021)

BTSB #: 341216 Available

Dewey: 305.8009/NAges: 12-18   
Lexile: 1260

Subjects: Racism - United States - History Stereotype (Social psychology) United States - Race relations - History


Summary: An overview of the roots and legacies of racial bias and white supremacy in the United States.


971381
Somewhere In The Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir by Yang, Kao Kalia 

Paperback(Henry Holt And Company, Inc.)

BTSB #: 971381 Available

Dewey: 305.9/CAges: 12-16   


Summary: A collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota’s Twin Cities


14.75 *

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684137
Sugar Town Queens by Nunn, Malla 

Paperback(Putnam Publishing Group)

BTSB #: 684137 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   


Summary: A biracial girl living in post-apartheid South Africa is determined to unveil the mystery of her white mother's hidden past.


9.83 *

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415381
Welcome To The New World by Halpern, Jake 

Paperback(Henry Holt And Company, Inc.)

BTSB #: 415381 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 14-18   


Summary: After escaping a Syrian prison, Ibrahim Aldabaan and his family fled the country to seek protection in America. Among the few refugees to receive visas, they finally landed in JFK airport on November 8, 2016, Election Day. The family had reached a safe harbor, but woke up to the world of Donald Trump and a Muslim ban that would sever them from the grandmother, brothers, sisters, and cousins stranded in exile in Jordan. In graphic novel format.


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