All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom

A Night Divided

Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

The Language of Spells

Under the Mesquite

Girl in the Blue Coat

The Emerald Shore: The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons

Zulaikha hopes. She hopes for peace, now that the Taliban have been driven from Afghanistan; a good relationship with her hard stepmother; and one day even to go to school, or to have her cleft palate fixed. Zulaikha knows all will be provided for her--"Inshallah," God willing.

Then she meets Meena, who offers to teach her the Afghan poetry she taught her late mother. And the Americans come to her village, promising not just new opportunities and dangers, but surgery to fix her face. These changes could mean a whole new life for Zulaikha--but can she dare to hope they'll come true?

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Dry

Jarrod Shusterman, Neal Shusterman, 2018

All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom

E.B. Lewis, Angela Johnson, 2013

A Night Divided

Jennifer A. Nielsen, 2015

Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

Janelle Washington, Angela Joy, 2022

The Language of Spells

Garret Weyr, Katie Harnett, Garret Weyr, also Freymann-Weyr, 2018

Under the Mesquite

Guadalupe Garcia Mccall, 2011

Girl in the Blue Coat

Monica Hesse, 2016

The Emerald Shore: The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons

Barbara Mariconda, 2014