Catalog Search Results
Author
Appears on these lists
Historical Fiction
Independent Reading Project - Fiction
Race & Social Justice- Recently Published Recommended Books for Teens
Staff Picks
Independent Reading Project - Fiction
Race & Social Justice- Recently Published Recommended Books for Teens
Staff Picks
Formats
Description
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, fourteen Japanese-American teens who grew up together in Japantown, San Francisco, find their lives irrevocably changed when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps. In a world that seems determined to hate them, they must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.
3) Flawed
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Celestine North lives a perfect life. She's a model daughter and sister, she's well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she's dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan. But then Celestine encounters a situation in which she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule and now faces life-changing repercussions. She could be imprisoned. She could be branded. She could be found 'flawed'.
Author
Series
Monster High volume 2
Publisher
Poppy
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Cleo was the queen bee of the RADs, the normies, and everyone in between at Merston High. But now new girls Frankie Stein and Melody Carver seem to be taking over.
5) Linked
Author
Appears on list
Description
Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's the only Jewish girl...
Author
Series
Monster High volume 1
Description
Frankie Stein was created in a laboratory, and when she enters Merston High School camouflaged as a "normie," all she wants is to fit in, but it takes the help of another new student who believes that everyone should be treated equally before Frankie even has a chance.
Author
Appears on these lists
Description
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of this Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about a hilarious family on a road-trip at one of the most important times in America's history. This special edition makes a perfect gift and includes bonus content!
Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's thirteen and an "official...
Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's thirteen and an "official...
Author
Formats
Description
Follows Peekay, a white British boy in South Africa during World War II, between the ages of five and eleven, as he survives an abusive boarding school and goes on to succeed in life and the boxing ring, with help from a chicken, a boxer, a pianist, black African prisoners, and many others.