Mascot / Charles Waters and Traci Sorell.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Watertown : Charlesbridge, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 248 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781623543808
- 1623543800
- Indians as mascots -- Juvenile fiction
- Sports team mascots -- Social aspects -- Juvenile fiction
- School mascots -- Social aspects -- Juvenile fiction
- Middle school students -- Juvenile fiction
- Indians of North America -- Juvenile fiction
- Middle schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Washington (D.C.) -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | New | WATER CHARLES | Available | 33111011085202 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | New | WATER CHARLES | Available | 33111011183155 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
What if a school's mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade novel in verse, two best-selling BIPOC authors tackle this hot-button issue.
In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, people work hard, kids go to school, and football is big on Friday nights. An eighth-grade English teacher creates an assignment for her class to debate whether Rye's mascot should stay or change. Now six middle schoolers--all with different backgrounds and beliefs--get involved in the contentious issue that already has the suburb turned upside down with everyone choosing sides and arguments getting ugly.
Told from several perspectives, readers see how each student comes to new understandings about identity, tradition, and what it means to stand up for real change.
"Waters and Sorell's plain spoken verse is always sharp and direct." - The New York Times Book Review
"The kids and I are so grateful for this gift you both have given to teachers, kids, and our world." -Ms. Corgill, 5th Grade Teacher, Alabama
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2023 A National Public Radio "Books We Love" title of 2023
Ages 10 and up. Charlesbridge.
Grades 7-9. Charlesbridge.
Six eighth graders in Washington, DC, navigate through the conflict and division sparked by a school assignment focused on their town's Native American mascot.