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Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Born with ocular albinism, small-town eye doctor Sam Hill must finally face a past tragedy that caused him to turn his back on his friends, his hometown, and the life he'd always known--a journey that makes him realize what truly matters.-- Adapted from back cover.
2) Akata witch
Author
Series
Akata series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
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.
4) Lu
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
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"--
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this glittering triptych novel, Suzette, Maple and Agnes, three Black women with albinism, call Shreveport, Louisiana, home. At the bustling intersection of the American South and Southwest, these three women find themselves at the crossroads of their own lives. Suzette, a pampered twenty-year-old, has been sheltered from the outside world since a dangerous childhood encounter. Now, a budding romance with a sweet mechanic allows Suzette to seek...
Author
Series
Pearl (Bendis) volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Pearl Tanaka is an outsider among outsiders. A Japanese American with albinism, she was born into a world ruled by the American yakuza. Now she uses her unequaled skills as a tattoo artist to make a living in San Francisco, and all that she owes to the yakuza is the occasional kickback from her shop. That all changes the day that she meets Rick Araki...and saves his life. Rick is another tattoo artist, who's run afoul of a different yakuza clan....
Author
Series
Academy of love volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Finding out that her husband was a bigamist didn't devastate Portia Stefani; she held her head high when she forced him out of her life. But losing her beloved music school as a result of the traitorous bastard's gambling debts almost destroyed her. The only way she'll be able to make ends meet is to accept a lucrative tutoring position in remote Cornwall. What Portia hasn't anticipated is the life-altering impact that her mesmerizing new employer...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Under her skin. Pearl Tanaka's boss, the malevolent Mr. Miike, used to think that she was merely a highly successful tattoo artist. But now that he knows about her gift for killing, he wants to put her deadly talents to use in service of his criminal empire. pearl, however, has just learned soem very interesting things about her late mother - and now she has a completely different career path in mind. As she travels to Japan to uncover the secrets...
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