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Don Brown, illustrated by Don Brown
THE FIRST NOVEL IN TWENTY YEARS BY THE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF AGE OF ANGER 'A spectacular, illuminating work of fiction' JENNIFER EGAN 'Terrific . . . elegantly written, incisively observed, and deeply satisfying to read' KAMILA SHAMSIE 'A book that demands…
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Warrior Girl UnearthedAngeline BoulleySixteen-year-old Perry Firekeeper-Birch spends the summer as an intern in a tribal museum, where she learns about NAGPRA and the failure to return Native ancestral remains and sacred items. Disturbed by what she sees at a nearby college, Perry takes impulsive action while local Indigenous women disappear. A trustee’s murder leads her to a devastating discovery involving ancestral remains, exposing further secrets hidden on the land.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure HL720LATOS Book Level 5.09On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
From HereLuma MuflehA New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity." Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the…Ninth to Twelfth GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
All You Have To DoAutumn AllenAll You Have To Do is a young adult novel about two Black students seeking success in prestigious American academic institutions. The students are activists whose personal struggles are connected across decades. The book considers what achievement demands of them while placing their individual experiences in a longer shared history. Their stories are presented together despite the decades between them.Ninth to Twelfth GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details