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Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In an alternate Tang Dynasty China, aspiring royal alchemist Zilan, who has the ability to resurrect the dead, arrives in the capital to compete against the best alchemists in the country and becomes drawn into the dangerous political games of the royal family.
22) What lane?
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Biracial sixth-grader Stephen questions the limitations society puts on him after he notices the way strangers treat him when he hangs out with his white friends and learns about the Black Lives Matter movement.
24) Court of Fives
Author
Series
Court of Fives trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a scheming lord tears Jess'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.
Author
Series
Marisol McDonald volume 1
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Marisol McDonald, a biracial, nonconformist, soccer-playing pirate-princess with brown skin and red hair, celebrates her uniqueness.
26) Endangered
Author
Series
Ape quartet volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly accompanying her advocate mother to a bonobo sanctuary, a teen girl participates in a desperate effort to rescue the bonobos and survive in the jungle when a revolution breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked.
27) Blended
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After being abandoned by her mother in 1908 Shanghai, a young Eurasian girl, Jialing, becomes the bondservant to the new owners of a grand estate until she befriends a young English girl who mysteriously disappears and forever changes her life.
30) Mirror girls
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.
31) Gravity
Author
Publisher
Make Me a World
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gravity Delgado has been breaking records and competitors since she started boxing with a legendary coach at age twelve, and now will reach the Olympics if her home life and romance do not distract her.
32) Sankofa: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her African father. In middle age, after separating from her husband and with her daughter all grown up, she finds herself alone and wondering who she really is. Her mother's death leads her to find her father's...
33) Perfectly Parvin
Author
Series
Perfectly Parvin volume 1
Publisher
Putnam/G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After being dumped at the beginning of freshman year, Iranian-American Parvin Mohammadi sets out to win the ultimate date to Homecoming"--
34) The truth is
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Closed off and grieving her best friend, fifteen-year-old overachiever Verdad faces prejudices at school and from her traditional mother, her father's distance since his remarriage, and her attraction to a transgender classmate.
Author
Series
Cilla Lee-Jenkins volume 1
Publisher
Square Fish, Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
So that her family will not forget her when her new sibling arrives, Cilla Lee-Jenkins begins writing her memoirs, in which she discusses the traditions she shares with her Chinese grandparents and how she was bald until age five.
36) The long ride
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In New York in 1971, Jamila and Josie are bused across Queens where they try to fit in at a new, integrated junior high school while their best friend, Francesca, tests the limits at a private school.
Author
Series
Momotaro volume 1
Publisher
Disney*HYPERION
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Xander discovers and learns to use the fantastic powers that are his birthright in order to save his father. Based on Japanese mythology.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press/Triangle Square
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law passes, thirteen-year-old Martha, the daughter of abolitionists living in Connecticut, embarks on a journey of self-discovery as she travels south to save her kidnapped adopted brother Jake, the orphan of a runaway slave.
Author
Series
Keeper of Night volume 1
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Ren Scarborough has been collecting souls in the London streets for centuries...When her failure to control her Shinigami [death god] abilities drives Ren out of London, she flees to Japan to seek the acceptance she's never gotten from her fellow Reapers. Accompanied by her younger brother, the only being on earth to care for her, Ren enters the Japanese underworld to serve the Goddess of Death, only to learn that here, too, she must prove herself...
40) All my friends
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When Fancy Pink is offered a record deal their parents say no, so they decide to make an album on their own, if they can raise enough money without raising their parents' suspicions.
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