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2) Freewater
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fleeing Southerland Plantation with his little sister, twelve-year-old Homer finds a secret community called Freewater, created by formerly enslaved people, but when he learns of a threat that could destroy this place, he crafts a plan to help his new home.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
71 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates episodes in seven-year-old Julian's life which include getting into trouble with his younger brother Huey, planting a garden, what he did to try to grow taller, losing a tooth, and finding a new friend.
5) Gone Wolf
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
348 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined--to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is known as a Blue, for the color of her sadness. She lives in a small room with her dog, who is going wolf--he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf, too. She wants to know what is beyond her room.
In the present, Imogen lives outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. The...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biracial girl finally gets the chance to meet the African American side of her family"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The early bird catches the worm! At least that's what Libby's dad says. So when Libby's family goes camping, Libby decides to get up extra early to catch some worms for their fishing trip. The only problem now is that Libby is too tired to go fishing. But that's good news for the worms that get a new garden home on the farm. -Amazon.com
Author
Series
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The Gaither sisters return to Brooklyn, where they adapt to new feelings of independence while managing changes large and small, from Pa's new girlfriend to a very different Uncle Darnell's return from Vietnam.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she got in trouble for standing up to bullies who said he was gone for good. So when she finds a ticking briefcase in his closet containing a nomination for a summer tryout at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, she's certain the secretive organization holds the key to locating Quinton--if only she can wrap her head...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
195 p.: ill.; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
Author
Series
American girl volume 2
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Cecile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, makes friends with Marie-Grace Gardner, a doctor's daughter who has just returned to her native New Orleans in 1853, and persuades her to change places at their separate Mardi Gras balls.
14) The friendship
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1987
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
53 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
Author
Publisher
Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition,
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nothing has gone right for Lawrence since his Pop went away, but after getting expelled from school for fighting, he discovers the world of chess and things begin to change.
16) Fast pitch
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shenice Lockwood dreams of leading the Fulton Firebirds to the U12 softball regional championship. But Shenice's focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending--and family-name-ruining--crime may have been a setup. It's up to Shenice to discover the truth about her family's past--and fast--before secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever"--
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1987
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
43 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two black girls living in the North are proud of their family's beautiful new Cadillac until they take it on a visit to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time.
Author
Series
Maya and the Rising Dark volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A twelve-year-old girl discovers her father is the keeper of the gateway between our world and The Dark, and when he goes missing she'll need to unlock her own powers and fight a horde of spooky creatures set on starting a war"--
19) Black boy joy
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier. Includes a brief overview of the experiences of African Americans during Reconstruction, the period immediately following the Civil War.