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TITLE: This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
AUTHOR: Tiffany Jewell CALL NUMBER: 305.8 Jew SUMMARY: Who are you? What is racism? Where does it come from? Why does it exist? What can you do to disrupt it? Learn about social identities, the history of racism and resistance against it, and how you can use your anti-racist lens and voice to move the world toward equity and liberation. |
TITLE: Restart
AUTHOR: Gordon Korman CALL NUMBER: F Kor - NOVELS SUMMARY: Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life? |
TITLE: Queen Bey
AUTHOR: Edited by Veronica Chambers CALL NUMBER: 921 Bey SUMMARY: Honors the career of the star musician, sharing insights into Beyonce's record-setting achievements, her family life, and her activist contributions. |
TITLE: Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
AUTHOR: Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik CALL NUMBER: 921 Gin SUMMARY: Profiles the life of feminist pioneer and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her fight for gender equality and civil rights. |
TITLE: Look Both Ways
AUTHOR: Jason Reynolds CALL NUMBER: F Rey - NOVELS SUMMARY: A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school. |
TITLE: Into the Streets: A Young Person's Visual History of Protest in the United States
AUTHOR: Marke Bieschke CALL NUMBER: 303.48 Bie SUMMARY: This lively book guides readers through the art and history of significant protests, sit-ins, and collective acts of resistance throughout US history. Photos, artwork, signs, and other visual elements highlight the history of social action, from American Indian resistance to colonists through Black Lives Matter and Women's Marches. |
TITLE: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
AUTHOR: Austin Channing Brown WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Bro SUMMARY: Brown highlights how white middle-class evangelicalism has participated in the rise of racial hostility, and encourages the reader to confront apathy and recognize God's ongoing work in the world. |
TITLE: Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany
AUTHOR: Andrew Maraniss WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.48 Mar SUMMARY: The best-selling author of Strong Inside presents the remarkable true story of the birth of Olympic basketball at the 1936 Summer Games, from its invention by James Naismith and debut in Hitler's Berlin to the eclectic mix of people, events and propaganda that made it possible. |
TITLE: Friday Black
AUTHOR: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Adj - NOVELS SUMMARY: A collection of short stories reveals the violence, injustice, and painful absurdities that Black men and women contend with every day in the United States. |
TITLE: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
AUTHOR: Edited by Jesmyn Ward WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.896 War SUMMARY: A collection of essays addressing the history and predicament of race in an attempt to envision a better future. |
TITLE: Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
AUTHOR: Brené Brown WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 158.2 Bro SUMMARY: Draws on new research to challenge conventional beliefs about fitting in to offer advice on the skills required to achieve actual belonging while being true to oneself. |
TITLE: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
AUTHOR: Neil deGrasse Tyson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 523.01 Tys SUMMARY: Offers witty, digestible explanations of topics in cosmology, from the Big Bang and black holes to quantum mechanics and the search for life in the universe. |
TITLE: "All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
AUTHOR: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 970.004 Dun SUMMARY: Examines myths about Native American culture and traces their development to reveal the fear, prejudice, and larger political agenda at their roots. |
TITLE: Born Scared
AUTHOR: Kevin Brooks WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bro - THRILLER SUMMARY: A 13-year-old shut-in who has struggled with debilitating anxiety all his life fights to hold himself together when a pharmacy mistake leaves him without medication and forces his mother to venture out in a raging snowstorm. |
TITLE: Ghost Boys
AUTHOR: Jewel Parker Rhodes WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rho - NOVELS SUMMARY: After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till. |
TITLE: I'm Not Dying with You Tonight
AUTHOR: Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Jon - NOVELS SUMMARY: Told from two viewpoints, Atlanta high school seniors Lena and Campbell, one black, one white, must rely on each other to survive after a football rivalry escalates into a riot. |
TITLE: Because I Was A Girl: True Stories for Girls of All Ages
AUTHOR: Edited by Melissa de la Cruz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.4 Bec SUMMARY: An uplifting collection of true accounts by women and girls about the obstacles, challenges and opportunities they faced because of their gender includes the stories of successful women in the arts, finance, politics and more as written by such contributors as Victoria Aveyard, Libba Bray and Margaret Stohl. |
TITLE: Wishtree
AUTHOR: Katherine Applegate WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F App - FANTASY SUMMARY: An old red oak tree tells how he and his crow friend, Bongo, help their human neighbors get along after a threat against an immigrant family is carved into the tree's trunk. |
TITLE: Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
AUTHOR: Rachel Ignotofsky WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 509.2 Ign SUMMARY: A collection of artworks inspired by the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, from the ancient world to the present, profiles each notable individual. |
TITLE: The Making of a Navy Seal: My Story of Surviving the Toughest Challenge and Training the Best
AUTHOR: Brandon Webb WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 359.9 Web SUMMARY: Brandon Webb discusses his life with a focus on his training to become a Navy SEAL. |
TITLE: Heads of the Colored People
AUTHOR: Nafissa Thompson-Spires WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tho - NOVELS SUMMARY: Contemporary and darkly humorous stories push boundaries and illuminate the simmering tensions and precariousness of black citizenship and concept of black identity in a post-racial era. |
TITLE: Bull
AUTHOR: David Elliott WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ell - FANTASY SUMMARY: A modern twist on the Theseus and Minotaur myth, told in verse. |
TITLE: Dear Martin
AUTHOR: Nic Stone WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sto - NOVELS SUMMARY: Profiled by a racist police officer in spite of his excellent academic achievements and Ivy League acceptance, a disgruntled college youth navigates the prejudices of new classmates and his crush on a white girl by writing a journal to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the hopes that his iconic role model's teachings will be applicable half a century later. |
TITLE: Landscape with Invisible Hand
AUTHOR: M. T. Anderson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F And - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: When jobs typically done by humans are replaced with alien technology, Adam's parents have no money for food, clean water, or medicine, forcing Adam and his girlfriend Chloe to get creative. |
TITLE: Malagash
AUTHOR: Joey Comeau WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Com - NOVELS SUMMARY: With her father dying from cancer, Sunday and her family move to Malagash where he grew up, but Sunday has a plan that will allow her father to live forever. |
TITLE: Mr. 60%
AUTHOR: Clete Barrett Smith WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Smi - NOVELS SUMMARY: Selling drugs to support a cancer-stricken guardian and barely passing his classes while his peers and vice principal gossip about his dropping out, Matt is reluctantly partnered with a cheerful social outcast, Amanda, whose private acquaintance with heartbreak renders her an unexpected source of renewal. |
TITLE: Ghost
AUTHOR: Jason Reynolds WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rey - NOVELS SUMMARY: Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school's track team, gifted runner Ghost finds his goal challenged by a tragic past with a violent father. |
TITLE: We Are Okay
AUTHOR: Nina LaCour WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F LaC - NOVELS SUMMARY: After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her friend Mabel comes to visit. |
TITLE: Every Heart a Doorway
AUTHOR: Seanan McGuire WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McG - FANTASY SUMMARY: Children have always disappeared from Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere ... else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back. The things she's experienced ... they change a person. The children under Miss West's care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world. But Nancy's arrival marks a change at the Home. There's a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it's up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter. No matter the cost. |
TITLE: Hot Cocoa Hearts
AUTHOR: Suzanne Nelson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Nel - NOVELS SUMMARY: While working at her parents' Santa photography booth at the mall, Emery meets Alex and begins to question her crush on Sawyer, the moody lead singer of a band. |
TITLE: Annihilation
AUTHOR: Jeff VanderMeer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Van - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Describes the 12th expedition to "Area X," a region cut off from the continent for decades, by a group of intrepid women scientists who try to ignore the high mortality rates of those on the previous 11 missions. |
TITLE: Belzhar
AUTHOR: Meg Wolitzer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wol - NOVELS SUMMARY: Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, where a journal-writing assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together. |