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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.
2) 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.
3) 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
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, and Annamae, an African American slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California from Missouri"--
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.
6) 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
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
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...
9) 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
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
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
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."
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
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.
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
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
As high school junior Michie plans for her future and explores a new relationship, she tries to reconcile with some uncomfortable truths about her life which becomes more complicated when she is contacted by her estranged mother.
Michie has been estranged from her mother since she was seven, and her concept of family has long felt murky. Now a high school junior, she is struggling with her scholarship essays, trying at making it into Brown as a first-generation...
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