01976cam a2200409 i 4500 2667449125 TxAuBib 20260127120000.0 250214t20252023||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781623546359 paperback 1623546354 paperback (OCoLC)1499202634 TxAuBib rda Mascot / Charles Waters, Traci Sorell. First paperback edition. Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, 2025. ©2023. 252 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes Information & Resources section and discussion guide. "Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition'"--Cover. In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, 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--Callie, Franklin, Priya, Sean, Tessa, and Luis--get involved in the issue that already has the suburb turned upside down. Written from several points of view, this novel in verse asks, "What happens when a mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone?". Ages 10 and up. Charlesbridge. Grades 7-9. Charlesbridge. 20260127. Junior Library Guild Selection. CLA Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts Award book. American Indian Youth Literature Middle Grade Honor Book. NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book. Bank Street College of Eduation's Best Children's Book of the Year, 2024. Schools Juvenile fiction. Middle school students Juvenile fiction. Novels in verse. Washington (D.C) Juvenile fiction.