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3) Tyrell
Author
Series
Publisher
PUSH
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
6) Francie
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When the sixteen-year-old boy whom she tutors in reading is accused of attempting to murder a white man, Francie gets herself in serious trouble for her efforts at friendship.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade "Grandma's Boy" whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test"--
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family, " twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
12) I love my hair!
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young African American girl describes the different, wonderful ways she can wear her hair.
16) Feast for 10
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
Numbers from one to ten are used to tell how members of a family shop and work together to prepare a meal.
17) Finding Langston
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
19) Zora and me
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.
20) Panic
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
As rehearsals begin for the ballet version of Peter Pan, the teenaged members of an Ohio dance troupe lose their focus when one of their own goes missing.
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