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Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
4) Rebound
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
414 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
218 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
7) Like Vanessa
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
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
Language
English
Description
First published in 1845, the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the memoir of former slave turned abolitionist. The story recounts Douglass's life from early childhood growing up in Maryland as a slave to his eventual escape to the North. Learning to read and write served him well, as he would eventually use it to document the civil injustices of slavery in 19th century America and to craft his impassioned oratories against it.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1984, twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace of Huntsville, Alabama, visits her father in Harlem, where her fascination with outer space and science fiction interfere with her finding acceptance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother, Big Ma, and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that's been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible" --
12) Mirror girls
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 42
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."
15) The Black Kids
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
362 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
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
Melanie Kroupa Books
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
“When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can’t sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.’” – Claudette Colvin
On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette...
18) Mom & me & mom
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In this book the author details what brought her mother to send her away and unearths the well of emotions she experienced long afterward as a result. For the first time, she reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence, a presence absent during much of the author's early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winning author De'Shawn Charles Winslow, a sweeping and unforgettable novel of a Black community reeling from a triple homicide, and the secrets the killings reveal. 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...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 29
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie use the magic tree house to travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, where they pretend to be batboys at Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves"--