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21) Harbor me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman...
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.
A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, BookPage
“Dazzling” –Walter Mosley, The New York Times Book Review....
A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, BookPage
“Dazzling” –Walter Mosley, The New York Times Book Review....
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Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • This fiery and provocative novel from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.
At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused...
At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused...
28) Hair love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It's up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hair style in this ode to self-confidence and the love between fathers and daughters"--
29) Small steps
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to turn his life around. The only person who believes in him is Ginny, his ten-year-old disabled neighbor. Together they learn to take small steps. But when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along. The scheme leads X-Ray to a chance encounter with a teen pop sensation, and suddenly his life...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Rose Lee Carter, an African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
34) Red at the bone
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Language
English
Description
"Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time, with the power of poetry and the emotional richness of a narrative ten times its length, Jacqueline Woodson's extraordinary novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of this child."--Provided...
37) Dear Martin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
38) Ghost boys
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
39) Hush
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.
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