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Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In Mississippi in the early 1900s, ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and African-American neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
85) Walls of Jericho
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Lawyer Ralph Merritt buys a house in a white neighborhood bordering Harlem. In their reactions to Merritt and to one another, Fishers' characters--including the prejudiced Miss Cramp who 'takes on causes the way sticky tape picks up lint, ' Merritt's housekeeper Linda, and Shine, his piano mover--provide an invaluable view of the social and philosophical milieu of the times.Thematically, Fisher focuses on the idea of black unity and discovery of the...
87) I see the rhythm
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
Chronicles and captures poetically the history, mood, and movement of African American music.
88) Black boy
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Appears on list
Description
An autobirography of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Him Crow South.
89) Scorpions
Author
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs.
90) White socks only
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi.
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Series
Nightjohn volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl whom Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
"Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he isn't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted, and to make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids and is finding it hard not to withdraw, even as their mutual friend Jordan tries to keep their group of friends together."--Provided by publisher....
100) Shaquille O'Neal
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Meet the famous basketball player and media darling.