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Race and Racism Bundle

Define Beauty

by Bithja Pierre

With her dark skin and coiled hair, Alicia doesn't look like the woman on the magazine cover. This leads her to question beauty: what does it mean to be beautiful? Is she? Can she ever be?

Reading Level: 4.7
Interest Level: Middle 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

Out of Time

by Vivian Wolkoff

Emmett is a bright young man with a future full of potential... until people's prejudices get in the way.

Reading Level: 3.9
Interest Level: High School

Romeo and Me

by Jennie Ford

In the rural American South of the 1960s, Romeo and Caroline are the best of friends. But as they grow older, their differences in race make life beyond the farm more harsh than they imagined.

Reading Level: 3.2
Interest Level: Middle School

Rugs Don't Talk

by Natasha Lopez

Kai is a teenager living on the Navajo reservation who wishes he was anywhere else. A scholarship might be his way out, but his grandmother's illness changes everything.

Reading Level: 1.6
Interest Level: High School

Skeleton Valley

by Tom Rameaka

In 1968, the violent deaths of two civil rights leaders change everything, including Timmy and Leon's friendship. Will a hike to the infamous Skeleton Valley help to heal their relationship?

Reading Level: 3.4
Interest Level: Middle School

Something To Prove

by Tiffany Jones

Derek struggles to find a summer job and his stutter doesn't make things any easier. When he meets some unlikely friends at a thrift shop, he finds a new job and develops a new perspective.

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 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 Secret Goldfish

by Ariel Morrison

In the midst of World War II, Alfred meets a Japanese-American boy named Kiku who is afraid for his family. Can Alfred keep Kiku's secret?

Reading Level: 4.5
Interest Level: Middle School

The Whipping Words

by Megan Dean

Seven-year-old May's enslaved nanny, Tula, finds that reading is a form of freedom, but May soon learns that in the racist society she lives in something as simple as reading is a privilege.

Reading Level: 3.9
Interest Level: Middle School