[baisl] Re: students navigating two worlds

  • From: MaryAnn Scheuer <greatkidbooks@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: baisl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 18:27:23 -0800

Great suggestions all around. Randy Ribay <http://www.randyribay.com/>, the
author of *After the Shot Drops* (on your original list), teaches in the
area--at Kehillah in Palo Alto

you could also look at:
*Tradition*, by Brandon Kiely
*Dear Martin*, by Nic Stone

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 1:12 PM Bernie Morrissey <Bernie.Morrissey@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Anyone have suggestions for books about students who balance two worlds by
leaving one neighborhood every day to attend elite, private schools in
another area?  Bonus if the student is of color.  So far this is all I have:



The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian

   [ Book ]             Call #: FIC ALE    Alexie, Sherman, 1966-

                Published 2007



After the shot drops

   [ Book ]             Call #: FIC RIB    Ribay, Randy,

                Published 2018



The art of being normal

   [ Book ]             Call #: FIC WIL    Williamson, Lisa, 1980-

                Published 2016



If you come softly

   [ Book ]             Call #: FIC WOO    Woodson, Jacqueline.

                Published 1998

                Interest Level: Young Adult







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Mary Ann

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Digital Age
<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35887237-reader-come-home>, by
Maryanne Wolfe*
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<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28234830-like-vanessa?ac=1&from_search=true>Pride
<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35068632-pride>, by Ibi Zoboi*

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