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21) Rebound
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 7
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This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first great African-American leader in the United States. The personal account of a fugitive slave's privation and sufferings and his campaigns for Negro emancipation. This dramatic autobiography of the...
23) Native son
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Bigger, a young black man in Chicago, kills his first victim in a moment of panic. He then goes on to kill again. The book describes the feelings of freedom and identity Bigger gains from these acts.
24) On the come up
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
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Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip-hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri's got massive shoes to fill. But it's hard to get your come up when you're labeled a hoodlum at school and your fridge at home is empty after your mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral—for all the...
Author
Series
Arabus family saga volume 1
Pub. Date
1987, c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 6
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Few men in American history are as controversial as Malcolm X. In this provocative biography, Myers, winner of a Newbery Honor and four-time Coretta Scott King Award winner, presents a forthright portrait of a complex man whose life reflected the major events of our times.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When Sheriff Mapes is summoned to a sugarcane plantation to find a dead Cajun farmer, he knows who committed the crime. Mapes finds himself powerless, however, when nearly 20 elderly black men confess to the murder. Can justice be served, or will the dead man's brutish father pass judgment his way?
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Zoe Washington stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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"Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
29) Locomotion
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.
30) The cay
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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In 1945, thirteen-year-old Levi is sent to find the father he has not seen in three years, going from Chicago, to segregated North Carolina, and finally to Pendleton, Oregon, where he learns that his father's unit, the all-Black 555th paratrooper battalion, will never see combat but finally has a mission. Includes historical notes.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
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"It is 1864, the Civil War is moving toward an end. President Lincoln has proclaimed his 'great measure, ' and Southern slaves are slowly gaining their freedom. But for thirteen-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation, it is the most difficult time of her life ..."
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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.
36) The skin I'm in
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Series
The skin I'm in novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Maleeka suffers every day from the taunts of the other kids in her class. If they're not getting at her about her homemade clothes or her good grades, it's about her dark, black skin. When a new teacher, whose face is blotched with a startling white patch, starts at their school, Maleeka can see there is bound to be trouble for her too. But the new teacher's attitude surprises Maleeka. Miss Saunders loves the skin she's in. Can Maleeka learn to do...
37) Hoodoo
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Pub. Date
℗♭2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1930s Alabama, twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher is the only member of his family who seems unable to practice folk magic, but when a mysterious man called the Stranger puts the entire town at risk from his black magic, Hoodoo must learn to conjure to defeat him.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"In the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, Marian, Marva, and Lazarus Harmon-three enigmatic siblings-are found shot to death in their home. The people of West Mills- on both sides of the canal that serves as the town's color line-are in a frenzy of finger-pointing, gossip, and wonder. The crime is the first reported murder in the area in decades, but the white authorities don't seem to have any interest in solving the case....
39) Feathers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
40) Concrete rose
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...