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High School Multicultural Bundle

Angela

by Caroline Gee

Angela desperately wants to make her Ma happy, but it's an impossible task. Maybe it's time to focus on her own happiness instead.

Reading Level: 3.4
Interest Level: High School

Chance and Little Star

by Joseph Legaspi

A teenage girl faces a life-or-death problem and doctors can't figure out what's causing it. It seems no one can help her... until she meets a boy with autism who ends up changing her life forever.

Reading Level: 2.5
Interest Level: High School

Jorge

by Brian Kirchner

The People Movers bandmates risk everything to reunite Jorge, a refugee child, with the parents he's been separated from and get them out of an immigrant detention facility in Texas..

Reading Level: 3.7
Interest Level: High School

Pathways to Ancestors

by M. R. Cain

Most of the graves here belong to Jessie's ancestors, but there is one, right at the beginning of the line, that she knows nothing about. Who were Kimi and Pierre Lascaux?

Reading Level: 2.4
Interest Level: Post High School

Refried Dreams

by Sarah Haas

Melanie needs a job. With her mom's medical bills stacking up, she has to do something to help them stay on their feet. But the only place that's hiring is the last place she would ever want to work.

Reading Level: 3.5
Interest Level: High School

Running The Point

by Simon Broder

Ennie wants to be a basketball player. He also wants to help Kelly, his new friend who has problems at home. But when Kelly starts getting Ennie in trouble, he wonders whether he can really help her.

Reading Level: 3.7
Interest Level: High School

Sabbath

by Susan Solomon

Susan's Friday night plans are ruined when her parents make her go to her grandparents' Sabbath dinner, but Grandma's stories help her begin to understand the importance of family.

Reading Level: 3.8
Interest Level: High School

The Detail

by David Agard

Olsen is a young white man in the 1960s who meets his first Black friend, Arnold, in Army boot camp. When a tragedy separates the two men, Olsen learns that it's never too late to be a good friend.

Reading Level: 3.9
Interest Level: High School

The Driving Test

by Monique Hayes

Taking a driving test is stressful enough for any teenager. But Enrique is up against a particularly difficult barrier, and it has nothing to do with his driving skills.

Reading Level: 4.1
Interest Level: High School

The Lights of Diwali

by Cat Jenkins

Chandra is an exchange student missing her home in India as Diwali, the Festival of Lights, approaches. But a friend shows her how Diwali's lights are tied to something much bigger.

Reading Level: 4.8
Interest Level: High School

The Manzanar Scrapbook

by Brian Kirchner

Valuable jewelry is stolen along with a scrapbook of an old man's memories of being held as a boy in a Japanese-American internment camp in WWII. It's up to the People Movers to investigate.

Reading Level: 3.6
Interest Level: High School

The Syrian Drummer and the Cactus Crimson Paint

by Brian Kirchner

Can three friends put their minds together to save their new bandmate from the prejudices threatening him and his family?

Reading Level: 2.9
Interest Level: High School

Walks with Augustus

by L.V. Halo

Sofia doesn't even like dogs... but maybe Augustus is different. And maybe this new routine of taking care of him really is exactly what she needed.

Reading Level: 2.6
Interest Level: Middle School