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1) Lu
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Lu knows he can lead Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and the team to victory at the championships, but it might not be as easy as it seems. Suddenly, there are hurdles in Lu's way--literally and not-so-literally--and Lu needs to figure out, fast, what winning the gold really means"--
2) Akata witch
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Series
Language
English
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Watertown Summer Reading Middle School
Wayland YA Booklists: Fantasy Fiction
Wayland YA Booklists: Magic Schools, Training Camps & Apprenticeships
Wayland YA Booklists: Fantasy Fiction
Wayland YA Booklists: Magic Schools, Training Camps & Apprenticeships
Description
Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.
3) Golden boy
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Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Habo has always been different light eyes, yellow hair and white skin. Not the good brown skin his family has and not the white skin of tourists. Habo is strange and alone. Habo is albino. Seeking refuge after being evicted from their home, Habo and his family journey across the Serengeti to Mwanza. But in Mwanza there are poachers who hunt albinos for the good luck their body parts are said to bring. Now Habos life is in danger....
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Series
Language
English
Description
Now stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny Nwazue, along with her friends from the Leopard Society, travel through worlds, both visible and invisible, to the mysterious town of Osisi, where they fight in a climactic battle to save humanity.
"A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born girl Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society. As she began to develop her magical powers, Sunny learned that she had been chosen to lead a dangerous...
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English
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While preparing for the most dreaded assignment at the prestigious Irving School, the Tragedy Paper, Duncan gets wrapped up in the tragic tale of Tim Macbeth, a former student who had a clandestine relationship with the wrong girl, and his own ill-fated romance with Daisy.
6) Ghost boy
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Language
English
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Description
Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
In England in 1346 Adrian has three problems: he is small for his twelve years, he is an albino, so people are suspicious of him, and his father wants him to be a scribe, while he wants to be an archer--but when he runs away to join his friend in the fight against the invading Scots, he learns that war can be a lot more complicated then he imagined.
8) Akata woman
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Series
Language
English
Description
"From the moment Sunny Nwazue discovered she had mystical energy flowing in her blood, she sought to understand and control her powers. Throughout her adventures in Akata Witch and Akata Warrior, she had to navigate the balance between nearly everything in her life--America and Nigeria, the "normal" world and the one infused with juju, human and spirit, good daughter and powerful Leopard Person. Now, those hard lessons and abilities are put to the...
Author
Series
Horses of the Maury River volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
After being abandoned, Chancey, an albino Appaloosa horse, finds a new home with Claire who needs him as much as he needs her, but as his eyesight deteriorates, he and Claire start anew as a therapeutic team.
10) Spotless
Author
Publisher
Stanza Lone Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Sinclair the giraffe is born with no spots. With the help of his friends, Tiki the tick bird and Victor a young boy with albinism, he learns that it is okay to be different. In fact, he learns that we are all different.
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