In a small hospital town, a trio of teens rebel against their fatal diagnosis of XP (an allergy to sunlight) with late night Parkour, an extreme sport of daredevil risks. On a random summer night, while scaling a building like any other...
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Auteur:Mitchard, JacquelynSommaire:Allie Kim's deathly allergy to sunlight confines her to the night, and without her best friend Juliet, the night feels even darker. Allie knows Juliet killed herself to escape Garrett Tabor, whom they saw commit a horrible crime,...
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Auteur:Jones, KellySommaire:Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown feels like a fish out of water when she and her parents move from Los Angeles to the farm they've inherited from a great-uncle. But farm life gets more interesting when a cranky chicken appears and Sophie...
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Auteur:Ernst, KathleenSommaire:In the early 1700s, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl, hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family year-round, but when he is accused of stealing,...
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Auteur:Vercher, JohnSommaire:Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a black father he's never known and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn't, twenty-two-year-old Bobby Saraceno is passing for white. Raised by his bigoted maternal grandfather, Bobby has...
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Auteur:Skinner, Robert E.Sommaire:December 1941: Jessica Richards, daughter of corrupt New Orleans councilman Whitman Richards, is the victim of a sensational daylight kidnapping from the grounds of a Catholic girls’ academy. Richards, a man with many enemies, outrages...
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Auteur:Smith, Ronald L.Sommaire:After something strange happens during a camping trip, twelve-year-old alien-obsessed Simon suspects he has been abducted, but was it real or just his overactive imagination?
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Auteur:Kearse, BettyeSommaire:In The Other Madisons, Bettye Kearse'a descendant of an enslaved cookand, according to oral tradition, President James Madison'shares her family story and explores the issues of legacy, race, and the powerful consequences...
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After her sister is raped and murdered, Lily Wong dedicates her life and ninja skills to the protection of women. She has to hide her true self from her Hong Kong tiger mom, who is already disappointed at her less-than-feminine ways,...
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Auteur:Chesnutt, Charles WaddellSommaire:Major Carteret is the white owner of the biggest newspaper in Wellington, a racially segregated city in the post-Civil War South. Carteret, along with other powerful white men in Wellington, are outraged that an editorial published the...
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Auteur:Stevenson, Sarah JamilaSommaire:Hoping to raise money for a post-graduation trip to London, Asha Jamison and her best friend Carey decide to sell T-shirts promoting the Latte Rebellion, a club that raises awareness of mixed-race students. But seemingly overnight,...
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Auteur:Gordon-Reed, AnnetteSommaire:Annette Gordon-Reed tells the legendary story of the Hemingses of Monticello, an American slave family with direct blood ties to the American President Thomas Jefferson. Gordon-Reed vividly describes the relationships between Jefferson...
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Auteur:Rinaldi, AnnSommaire:In 1832, Prudence Crandall begins admitting black girls to her exclusive Connecticut school, scandalizing white society and eventually causing her arrest and the closing of her school.
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With the blood gift and her grandfather assassinated, Ikenna pledges herself to the Praetorian Trials where she subjects herself to racism and misogyny. Will it be worth the revenge and the truth?
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Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican, but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael's coming out is only...
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Auteur:Johnson, James WeldonSommaire:Originally published anonymously in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man revealed as never before the color line dividing America, and the price it exacted on those souls who could traverse the two worlds. The book presents the...
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Auteur:Hayes, J. M.Sommaire:Benteen County, Kansas is a hellhole in summer of scorching heat and wind and turns even meaner in winter. As a howling blizzard blows down upon the sparsely-populated county seat of Buffalo Springs, Sheriff English confronts both a...
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Auteur:Elliott, KateSommaire:Now a Challenger, Jessamy is moving up the ranks of the Fives. She leaps at the chance to face more competitors, but then a fatal attack on her traveling party puts her at the center of a war. With a sinister overlord watching her every...
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Auteur:Skinner, Robert E.Sommaire:Autumn, 1940: A black woman named Louise Blanc is found tortured to death in her Gentilly home. Sergeant Israel Daggett can't make anything of it until a Treasury agent arrives on the scene to let him know that Louise Blanc was the...
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This exploration of the natural world and family bonds through the eyes of a young mixed-race narrator is a living, breathing, dazzlingly multi-faceted, exuberant masterpiece, firmly grounded in her sense of self-worth and belonging. If...
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