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"The Girl Who Fell from the Sky can actually fly." -The New York Times Book Review
Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy after a fateful morning on their Chicago rooftop.
Forced to move to a new city, with her strict African American grandmother as her guardian, Rachel is thrust for the first time into a mostly black community, where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and...
5) Honeysmoke
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A young biracial girl searches for the perfect color word to describe herself.
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"Ghosts, pirates and family secrets -- Stephen gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out adventure in the ghostly realm, for fans of When You Trap a Tiger. Stephen loves pirates. What he doesn't love is his name: Stephen Oh-O'Driscoll. He believes when his Korean mother and Irish father gave him this name, that it was just one cruel setup for being teased. Giving things the proper name is important, which is why Stephen thinks that it's time...
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 7
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Hazel goes on a journey to a war-torn comet that Wreath and Landfall have been battling over for.
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Wednesday Wilson volume 3
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"When they get an unexpected day off from school, Wednesday Wilson and her best friend Charlie plan to work on a new business idea. But the day takes a sudden turn when they're forced to spend it with Ruby Beautiful -- their former best friend and now frenemie. After Charlie is teased about his freckles at the park, Wednesday gets her next great business idea: Freckacular! A freckle business is sure to take off since Ruby's cool older brother, Raj,...
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 8
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"After the traumatic events of the War for Phang, Hazel, her parents, and their surviving companions embark on a life-changing adventure at the westernmost edge of the universe. Plus, two standalone tales reveal the fates of fan-favorite characters The Will and Ghüs."--Provided by publisher.
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Anna Hibiscus books volume 7
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Anna Hibiscus is with Grandmother and Grandfather in their village. When Anna Hibiscus goes to market one day and a boy steals a banana from her, she runs after him. It turns out that the boy is in trouble. How can Anna Hibiscus help?
13) One Drop Rule
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One Drop Rule explores a recurring and divisive issue in African American communities - skin color. Candid, sometimes painful, but also often funny, it picks up where California Newsreel's earlier release A Question of Color leaves off. The film inter-cuts intimate interviews with darker skinned African Americans, lighter skinned African Americans and inter-racial children of Black and white parents. In the process it investigates color consciousness,...
14) That's my mum
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Mia and her friend Kai are both children of mixed heritage, and neither of them looks like their own mother. This makes some people confused.
15) That's my mum
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Mia and her friend Kai are both children of mixed heritage, and neither of them looks like their own mother. This makes some people confused.
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 3
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Follows the story of a young family trying to survive an interstellar conflict.
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 9
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Hazel, Petrichor, Prince Robot, and Ghus set off on another spacefaring adventure in the midst of fake news and palpable terror.
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Kyoto, Japan, 1948. Noriko "Nori" Kamiza will not question why her mother abandoned her, or her confinement to the attic of her grandparents' imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her shameful skin. The illegitimate child of a Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents take her in only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the...
19) So done
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"When best friends Metai and Jamila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and looming auditions for a potentially life-changing new talented-and-gifted program"--Provided by publisher.
20) Saga: Volume six
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 6
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Hazel starts on a new kind of adventure: kindergarten! In the meantime, her family learns harsh lessons.
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