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2) Aquí también
Author
Publisher
Amanuense
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"De la mano de sus coloridas ilustraciones, la autora nos invita a ponernos en el lugar del otro y desde allí descubrir cuánto nos parecemos. Un libro para darle la vuelta a las ideas."--CincoBooks.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aria and Perry, two teens from radically different societies--one highly advanced, the other primitive--hate being dependent on one another until they overcome their prejudices and fall in love, knowing they can't stay together"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A National Book Award Longlist title!
From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a powerful, heartrending contemporary novel about fear, first love, and the devastating impact of prejudice.
It’s 2002, a year after 9/11. It’s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone
...5) Response
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When an African American high school student is beaten with a baseball bat in a white neighborhood, three boys are charged with a hate crime.
7) Darby
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1926, nine-year-old Darby Carmichael stirs up trouble in Marlboro County, South Carolina, when she writes a story for the local newspaper promoting racial equality.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.
11) ¿Hay sitio?
Author
Publisher
Apila Ediciones
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Triangles, squares, semicircles ... geometry can be fun. An original story full of happiness and optimism. A story that would have us accept others and invites us to be done with prejudices.
12) Borderline
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Despite the strained relationship between them, teenaged Sami Sabiri risks his life to uncover the truth when his father is implicated in a terrorist plot.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Lebanese-Australian Jamilah, known in school as Jamie, hides her heritage from her classmates and tries to pass by dyeing her hair blonde and wearing blue-tinted contact lenses, until her conflicted feelings become too much for her to bear.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new family moves in, and Franklin is afraid to make friends with them because they seem very different. Soon he realizes that he and his new neighbours have a lot in common after all" Cf. Our choice, 1998-1999.
15) Point guard
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"It's basketball season for the home team but Gus must wrestle with prejudice when he's the only one bothered by Cassie joining the boys' team and his teammate Steve makes fun of Gus's Dominican heritage"--
16) Jungle crossing
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kat wants to be at "mini-camp" with classmates rather than touring the jungles near Cancun, Mexico, on a family vacation, but a story told by one of her Mayan guides helps her understand that by always trying to please her friends, she is losing herself.
17) Freak show
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Having faced teasing that turned into a brutal attack, Christianity expressed as persecution, and the loss of his only real friend when he could no longer keep his crush under wraps, seventeen-year-old Billy Bloom, a drag queen, decides the only to become fabulous again is to run for Homecoming Queen at his elite, private school near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In this loose retelling of The Phantom of the Opera, set in a reimagined industrial Asia, a ghost becomes obsessed with sixteen-year-old Wen, the daughter of a staff doctor in a slaughterhouse, who falls in love with one of the Noor, a despised group of men, racially different, hired as cheap factory labor.
19) Knife edge
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Following Callum's death, the people who loved him relate how their lives have been changed, especially in reference to his girlfriend, Sephy, and their mixed-race child.
20) The cay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
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