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1) 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.
3) 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
As Kofi, Arielle, Dana, November, and Jericho face personal challenges during their last year of high school, a misunderstood student brings a gun to class and demands to be taken seriously.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time-- and has massive shoes to fill. She's been labeled a hoodlum at school, and the fridge at home is empty after her mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral -- for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed by the media as a menace, Bri makes a choice-- and becomes the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
A teenaged boy's death in a hazing accident has lasting effects on his pregnant girlfriend and his guilt-ridden cousin, who gives up a promising music career to play football during his senior year in high school.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
11) Dread nation
Author
Series
Dread nation volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Description
When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania-- derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. Now laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When fourteen-year-old Anthony "Ant" Jones from the ghetto of East Cleveland, Ohio, gets a scholarship to a prep school in Maine, he finds that he must change his image and adapt to a world that never fully accepts him, but when he goes home he discovers that he no longer truly belongs there either.
13) Dear Martin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
14) The voting booth
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
The first year they are eligible to vote, Marva and Duke meet at their polling place and, over the course of one crazy day, fall in love.--
15) Fake ID
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
"An African-American teen in the Witness Protection Program moves to a new town and finds himself trying to solve a murder mystery when his first friend is found dead"--
16) Out of darkness
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.
17) If I grow up
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Growing up in the inner-city projects, DeShawn is reluctantly forced into the gang world by circumstances beyond his control.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Since losing both of her parents, fifteen-year-old Katie can see and talk to ghosts, which makes her a loner until fellow student Law sees her drawing of a historic house and together they seek a treasure rumored to be hidden there by illegal slave-traders.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Description
In 1959 Virginia, Sarah, a black student who is one of the first to attend a newly integrated school, forces Linda, a white integration opponent's daughter, to confront harsh truths when they work together on a school project.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.
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