Search Results: Returned 15 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 15
-
-
[2020]., Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: HISTORICAL F HAM Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
-
-
2018., Pre-adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: ADVENTURE F OLD Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It is the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down South, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive; but when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs may come in handy.
-
-
2018., Pre-adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: FIC OLD Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Dactyl Hill Volume: 1Summary Note: It is the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down South, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive; but when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs may come in handy.
-
-
2017., Adolescent, LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY Call No: HISTORICAL F LAT Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past. Alternating chapters tell the story of William, another teen grappling with the racial firestorm leading up to the 1921 Tulsa race riot, providing some clues to the mystery"--
-
-
-- Everywhere you do not belong2020., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: REALISTIC F BUM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A darkly funny and heartfelt debut novel about what it means to grow up young and black on the south side of Chicago when it feels like your choices are slim to none"--Provided by the publisher.
-
-
-- I am not dying with you tonight[2019]., Adolescent, Sourcebooks Fire Call No: CLASS SET FIC JON Availability:241 of 242 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
-
-
[2017], Pre-adolescent, Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: REALISTIC F ENG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed.
-
-
-
2009., Adolescent, Egmont USA Call No: Historical Fic Myers Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.
-
-
-
c1994., Juvenile, Harcourt Brace Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.
-
-
-
c1994., Harcourt Brace Call No: E BUN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.
-
-
-
c1994., Harcourt Brace Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.
-
-
-
1994., Juvenile, Harcourt Brace Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.
-
-
[1994]., Juvenile, Harcourt Brace Call No: E BUN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Caldecott Medal booksSummary Note: Daniel and his mother look out of their window at the smoky night below. There are looters on the street, fires in the distance. Daniel clutches his cat, Jasmine. But later, when they're forced to leave the apartment building, Jasmine can't be found. Mrs. Kim's cat is missing too. Where are they? They can't be with each other. Those cats don't get along ... This story is about cats and people who couldn't get along until a night of rioting brings them together. Winner of Caldecott medal, 1995.
-
-
2022., Pre-adolescent, LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY Call No: HISTORICAL F CHO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On the first night of rioting in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, Jordan's father leaves to check on the family store, spurring twelve-year-old Jordan and his friends to embark on a dangerous journey through South Central and Koreatown to come to his aid, encountering the racism within their community as they go.
-
-
2022., Pre-adolescent, Nancy Paulsen Books Call No: HISTORICAL F WOO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In August 1965, twelve-year-old Eden's older cousin from Mississippi comes to visit her in Los Angeles, and while the Watts Riots erupt around them, they continue their investigation of the disappearance of Winter's father ten years ago.
