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"This nonfiction book encourages teens to stand up for equality and speak out against injustice"--

2) Exposing hate: prejudice, hatred, and violence in action

Author

Miller, Michael

Lexile measure

1180L

Language

English

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Description

Experts have documented an explosive rise in the number of hate groups since the turn of the century, driven by anger over immigration and demographic projections showing that whites will no longer hold majority status in the United States by 2040. The rise accelerated with the elections of presidents Obama and Trump. Extremists are increasingly diffuse, moving to the web and away from organized, on-the-ground activities. What is a hate group and...

3) Men of the 65th: the Borinqueneers of the Korean War

Author

Aikens-Nuñez, Talia

Language

English

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Description

"Learn about Puerto Rico's 65th Regiment, one of the US Army's most decorated regiments. Author Talia Aikens-Nuñez shares the history of these soldiers and the discrimination they faced as they served their country during the largest court martial of the Korean War"--

4) Punching the Air

Author

Zoboi, Ibi

Pub. Date

2020

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

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The Black Witch Chronicles

New York Times and USA Today bestseller * Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor * Walter Award Winner * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Time Magazine Best Book of the Year * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * New York Public Library Best Book of the Year

From award-winning, bestselling

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5) Wandfasted

Author

Forest, Laurie

Series

Language

English

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The New York Times bestselling series!
Magic, romance, fantasy, and adventure collide in Wandfasted, the irresistible ebook prequel to The Black Witch Chronicles by Laurie Forest.
Twenty years before Elloren Gardner enrolled at Verpax University, the Realm War was tearing apart Erthia. When Tessla Harrow is driven from her home by the fighting, she discovers a depth of power she never knew she had...and an irresistible draw...

6) Zom-B city

Author

Shan, Darren

Series

Zom-B volume 3

Pub. Date

2013.

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5

Lexile measure

890L

Language

English

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Description

As zombies overrun London, B battles moral dilemmas and a growing sense of hopelessness at every turn.

7) Running loose

Author

Crutcher, Chris

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7

Lexile measure

870L

Language

English

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Description

Louie, a high school senior in a small Idaho town, learns about sportsmanship, love, and death as he matures into manhood.

8) Devils within

Author

Henson, S. F

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13

Lexile measure

HL 640L

Language

English

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Description

Nate was eight the first time he stabbed someone; he was eleven when he earned his red laces--a prize for spilling blood for "the cause." And he was fourteen when he murdered his father (and the leader of The Fort, a notorious white supremacist compound) in self-defense, landing in a treatment center while the state searched for his next of kin. Now, in the custody of an uncle he never knew existed, who wants nothing to do with him, Nate just wants...

9) Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance

Author

Reynolds, Jason

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7

Language

English

Formats

Description

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

A young adult anthology featuring fictional stories of everyday resistance.

You might be the kind of person who stands up to online trolls.Or who marches to protest injustice.Perhaps you are #DisabledAndCute and dancing around your living room, alive and proud.Or perhaps you are the trans mentor that you wish you had when you were younger.Maybe you call out false allies, or stand up to loved ones. Maybe you speak your truth and drop the mic,...

10) Court of fives

Author

Elliott, Kate

Series

Court of Fives trilogy volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16

Lexile measure

850L

Language

English

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Description

When a scheming lord tears Jes's family apart, she must rely on her unlikely friendship with Kal, a high-ranking Patron boy, and her skill at Fives, an intricate, multi-level athletic competition that offers a chance for glory, to protect her Commoner mother and mixed-race sisters and save her father's reputation.

11) Lost in the river of grass

Author

Rorby, Ginny

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8

Lexile measure

750L

Language

English

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Description

I don't realize I'm crying until he glances at me. For a moment, I see the look of anguish in his eyes, then he blinks it away and slips off into the water. I immediately think of the gator. It's still down there somewhere. . . .

A science-class field trip to the Everglades is supposed to be fun, but Sarah's new at Glades Academy, and her fellow freshmen aren't exactly making her feel welcome. When an opportunity for an unauthorized side trip

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12) Angry Management

Author

Crutcher, Chris

Pub. Date

2010

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

Description

Chris Crutcher fills these three stories with raw emotion. They are about insecurity, anger, and prejudice. But they are also about love, freedom, and power. About surviving. And hope.

Every kid in this group wants to fly. Every kid in this group has too much ballast.

Mr. Nak's Angry Management group is a place for misfits. A place for stories. And, man, does this crew have stories.

There's Angus Bethune and Sarah

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13) Fragments

Author

Wells, Dan

Series

Partials sequence volume 2

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25

Lexile measure

920L

Language

English

Formats

Description

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

"With the Help of Samm and Heron, Kira sets out on a desperate search for clues as to who she is, while Marcus and the remaining human population gear up for war with the Paritals"-- Provided by publisher.

14) Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy

Author

Schmidt, Gary D

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10

Lexile measure

1000L

Language

English

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Description

In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.

15) Crossing the line

Author

Elkeles, Simone

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12

Language

English

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Description

To escape his abusive stepdad, bad boy Ryan Hess runs from his tiny Texas border town to Mexico. But his plans to keep his head down and stay out of trouble are shattered the minute he meets the beautiful and totally out of his league Dalila Sandoval. Dalila Sandoval shouldn't even know someone like Ryan Hess. The daughter of one of the wealthiest lawyers in Mexico, Dalila is focused on studying and planning for her bright future. Ryan is only a distraction...

16) Come Home Safe: A Novel

Author

Buckmire, Brian G

Pub. Date

2023

Language

English

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Description

Dad, I just want to know how to not become a hashtag. In this gripping read, biracial siblings Reed and Olive hadn't planned on navigating racial inequality or being roughed up by police on the subway, but as they face the truths and pains of being a person of color, they also lean into knowing their rights and fostering conversations about change and acceptance.

"In Come Home Safe, Brian Buckmire has crafted

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17) We don't swim here

Author

Tirado, Vincent

Language

English

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Description

She is the reason no one goes in the water. And she will make them pay. A chilling new novel for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson, Lamar Giles, and Ryan Douglass. Bronwyn is only supposed to be in rural Hillwoods for a year. Her grandmother is in hospice, and her father needs to get her affairs in order. And they're all meant to make some final memories together. Except Bronwyn is miserable. Her grandmother is dying, everyone is standoffish, and she can't...

18) Sources of light

Author

McMullan, Margaret

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8

Lexile measure

840L

Language

English

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Description

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, on 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there, Sam encounters both love and hate as she learns about photography from a new friend of her mother's and witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.

19) Deadline

Author

Crutcher, Chris

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10

Lexile measure

820L

Language

English

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Description

Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."

20) The Crescent Stone

Author

Mikalatos, Matt

Series

Sunlit Lands volume 1

Language

English

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Description