prejudices

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Barely missing everything

2020
"Three Mexican-Americans--Juan, JD, and Fabi--each try to overcome their individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter"--Provided by publisher.

Fire starters

2016
"Looking for a little mischief after finding an old flare gun, Ron and Ben suddenly find themselves in trouble when the local gas bar on Agamiing Reserve goes up in flames, and they are wrongly accused of arson by the sheriff's son. As the investigation goes forward, community attitudes are revealed, and the truth slowly comes to light."--Back cover.

Dark and deepest red

2021
"Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva's feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever's history better than anyone: Emil, whose family was blamed for the fever five hundred years ago. But there's more to what happened in 1518 than even Emil knows, and discovering the truth may decide whether Rosella survives the red shoes"--Amazon.com.

Juliet respira profundo

"Juliet, a self-identified queer, Bronx-born Puerto Rican-American, comes out to her family to disastrous results the night before flying to Portland to intern with her feminist author icon--whom Juliet soon realizes has a problematic definition of feminism that excludes women of color"--Provided by publisher.

The cholo tree

2017
Recovering from a shooting and stereotyped as a Chicano gangbanger, fourteen-year-old Victor Reyes loves reading books, has a genius girlfriend and an art teacher who mentors and encourages him to apply to art schools, but Victor cannot seem to overcome society's expectations for him.

Lizard in a zoot suit

In Southern California, during World War II, twin sisters Flaca and Cuata are harassed by soldiers stationed nearby, but a bigger problem arises when the lost member of an underground species, shaped like a five-foot-tall lizard, needs the sisters' help.

Dark and deepest red

In the present, Rosella Olivia makes shoes for her town's magical festival every October. This year, the Olivia family crafts shoes that impart a sense of impulsive love and desire, but over the course of the family's five-generation history, this wasn't always the case. In the summer of 1518, a dancing sickness struck more than 400 people, some of whom died, and authorities blamed and banished a Romani family. Rosella puts on a pair of her shoes and is inexplicably drawn to Emil, whose family was blamed for the 1518 outbreak. Together they learn a shocking truth about their shared history and Rosella's fate.

All-American Muslim girl

Sixteen-year-old Allie has known since she was seven years old that her family is different and even feared. She struggles to claim her Muslim and Arabic heritage while finding her place as an American teenager.

Iron cast

In 1919, Ava Navarra and Corinne Wells are best friends performing by night at the Cast Iron nightclub in Boston and conning the city's wealthy elite by day. When Ada finds herself imprisoned at Haversham Asylum, Corinne is the only one who can help her escape. But things are even more dangerous on the outside as the two face betrayal at every turn.

--too far from home

"Eleven-year-old Meskerem, half-Ethiopian and half-American, faces prejudice when she enters a new school just as Israel is coping with a large influx of new immigrants from Ethiopia"--Provided by publisher.

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