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Language
English
Description
"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
2) Someone new
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
When three children, Jesse, Jason, and Emma, are confronted with new classmates from different ethnic backgrounds, they strive to overcome their initial reactions, and to understand, accept, and welcome Maria, Jin, and Fatima.
Author
Language
English
Description
Chicano. Cubano. Pachuco. Nuyorican. Puerto Rican. Boricua. Quisqueya. Tejano.
To be Latino in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has meant to fierce identification with roots, with forbears, with the language, art and food your people came here with. America is a patchwork of Hispanic sensibilities-from Puerto Rican nationalists in New York to more newly arrived Mexicans in the Rio Grande valley, that has so far resisted...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Indigenous Mexican is secretive about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body; she is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion; she must choose loyalty to her life-long best friend who is contemplating an even more profound change of life or the boy she likes.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This work is based on Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, copyright A 2020. Originally published in the United States in hardcover by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC , New York, in 2020"--
11) Say my name
Author
Language
English
Description
Six people from different corners of the world celebrate the history, culture, and beauty behind their names.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
lv, 471 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Spanning the full spectrum of race, ethnicity, identity and class, a Peabody Award-winning journalist presents six-word stories, essays and photographs from her decade-long work at The Race Card Project that provide a window into America during a tumultuous era.
Author
Publisher
Independently Published
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"If you look closely, you'll soon see no one looks the same as me. Join these friends, as they explore how they are the same in some ways and different in others."--from [pg.4] of cover.
16) I'm from
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Explore the question 'Where are you from?' through the small moments in a boy's day"--
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered) : color illustrations ; 13 cm
Language
English
Description
Despite the differences between people around the world, there are similarities that join us together, such as pain, joy, and love.
18) Bronx masquerade
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
167 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
148 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thirty diverse and award-winning authors and illustrators capture frank discussions about racism, identity, and self-esteem"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1983 seventh-grader David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot to worry about--his bar mitzvah is coming soon, his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers argue about everything, his teammates for the upcoming trivia contest, Scott and Hector, do not like each other, he is beginning to notice girls, and Scott has persuaded him to begin digging a fallout shelter just in case the Cold War heats up.
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