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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Now stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny Nwazue, along with her friends from the 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.
2) Golden boy
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"A Tanzanian albino boy finds himself the ultimate outsider, hunted because of the color of his skin"--
Author
Formats
Description
"Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called Devil Boy or Sam Hell by his classmates; "God's will" is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered, buoyed by his mother's devout faith, his father's practical wisdom, and his two other misfit friends. Sam believed it was God who sent Ernie Cantwell, the only African American kid in his class, to be the...
Author
Series
Sangreal trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2007
Description
The concluding part of the captivating Sangreal trilogy from the author of Prospero's Children.
Like most young people, when Nathan Ward sleeps, he has adventures. But unlike most people, Nathan cannot relish the escapism, for his dreams are not fantasies; his adventures are real and the nightmares he faces in them can keep him from ever waking up.
Author
Series
Sangreal trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Nathan Ward, raised under the protection of old Bartlemy in the small English village of Thornyhill, begins having dreams of a magical world known as Eos, and of a greenish stone cup set with jewels, and his life becomes a dangerous adventure when pieces of his dreams begin to materialize in real life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
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.
8) Akata witch
Author
Series
Akata series volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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.
9) Ghost boy
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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.
10) Akata woman
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
With the help of her friends, fifteen-year-old Sunny embarks on a mission to find a precious object and return it to the spider deity Udide, but defeating the guardians of Udide's ghazal will put all of Sunny's hard lessons and abilities to the test.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
A darkly funny, surreal novel set in Chile and Peru, Albina and the Dog-Men is Alejandro Jodorowsky's sprawling modern myth in which sexual desire appears as a dangerous and generative force that mutates and transforms, unraveling identities and rending the social and moral fabric of a small town. Written with the stunning vision and cinematic flair he brought to his cult 1970s psychedelic freak-out films El Topo and The Holy Mountain, Jodorowsky...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1991.
Description
Moorcock's newest, most captivating novel of Elric--the mad albino warrior with the vampiric Black Sword. Elric returns on the wings of a dragon to the ruined place of his birth, the Dreaming City, where he must battle the princes of Hell itself to save his father's soul from eternal suffering.
Author
Series
Sangreal trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
19) Lu
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
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"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
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Convicted of murdering her adopted father, Memory, an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, as part of her appeal, writes down what happened as she remembers it, in this dramatic story of love, obsession, fate and the treachery of memory. By the author of An Elegy for Easterly.
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