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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former slaves, be granted the right to vote? In a bitter partisan fight over the legislature and Constitution, the answer eventually became yes, though only after two constitutional amendments, two Reconstruction Acts, two Civil Rights Acts, three Enforcement Acts, the impeachment of a president, and an army...
Author
Series
Real life volume 4
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When she is nominated for prom queen as a joke, African-American high school junior Tyler Bonning starts a campaign for an alternative prom and finds support in the pages of an old book labeled "RL."
3) Scorpions
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--
11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets... Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a...
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1983, c1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a retarded brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
When her mother disappears, Nigeria Jones, the daughter of the leader of a Black liberation group, searches for her, uncovering a shocking truth which leads her to question everything she thought she knew about her life and her family.
Author
Series
Marvelous world volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Strange things are happening on Earth, and twelve-year-old Louis Proof discovers that he is one of the few people able to see--and combat--the responsible beings, who came from Midlandia, the planet at the center of the universe, to continue a battle that rages there. Louis Proof is an ordinary kid. He loves listening to hip-hop, racing radio-controlled cars, and hanging out with his best friend, Brandon. Then a mysterious letter invites him to visit...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, the renowned Harvard scholar delivers a book that is illuminating and timely. Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and Birth of a Nation. Here, you will...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Told through first-person accounts, photographs, and other primary sources, this book is an overview of racial segregation and early civil rights efforts in the United States from the 1890s to 1954, a period known as the Jim Crow years. Multiple perspectives are examined as the book looks at the impact of legal segregation and discrimination on the day-to-day life of black and white Americans across the country.
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America. Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn't always been the case. Born with cerebral palsy, her greatest desire used to be normalcy and refuge from the steady stream of self-hate society strengthened inside her. But after...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive Connecticut girls' school where she is the only black student, fourteen-year-old Lahni Schuler feels like an outcast, particularly when her parents separate, but after attending a local church where she hears gospel music for the first time, she finds her voice.
13) 47
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
"When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past. Alternating chapters tell the story of William, another teen grappling with the racial firestorm leading up to the 1921 Tulsa race riot, providing some clues to the mystery"--
When Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Newbery Medalist Freedman presents a riveting account of this pivotal event in the history of civil rights. In the early 1960s, tensions in the segregated South intensified. Tired of reprisals for attempting to register to vote, Selma's black community began to protest. The struggle received nationwide attention when Dr. Martin Luther King,...
16) Feathers
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2007
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.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Sixteen-year-old Dove "Birdie" Randolph's close bond with her parents is threatened by a family secret, and by hiding her relationship with Booker, who has been in juvenile detention.
18) So done
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"When best friends Metai and Jamila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and looming auditions for a potentially life-changing new talented-and-gifted program. Jamila Phillips and Tai Johnson have been inseparable since they were toddlers, having grown up across the street from each other in Pirates Cove, a low-income housing project. As summer comes to an end, Tai can't...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
As she tries to escape her poor Chicago neighborhood by winning a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, shy and studious eighth-grader Patrice discovers that she has more options in life than she previously realized.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Learn about identities, true histories, and anti-racism work ... This book is written so young people will feel empowered to stand up to the adults in their lives. This book will give them the language and ability to understand racism and a drive to undo it"-- Cover.
This book is written for the young person who doesn't know how to speak up to the racist adults in their life. For the 14 year old who sees injustice at school and isn't able to understand...
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