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Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
From Ibi Zoboi, bestselling, award-winning author of American Street and co-author of Punching the Air, comes a bold new YA coming-of-age story, which explores race, feminism, and complicated family dynamics, about a girl whose father is the leader of a Black liberation group. The ideal next read for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Jacqueline Woodson, and Roxane Gay.
Warrior Princess. That's what Nigeria Jones's father calls her. He has raised her as...
2) Sparrow
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
The story of a sensitive, gifted African American girl who tells us with mordant humor what it feels like to spend every day wishing so hard that you could fly away from it allSparrow has always had a difficult time making friends. She would always rather stay home on the weekends with her mother, an affluent IT executive at a Manhattan bank, reading, or watching the birds, than play with other kids. And that's made school a lonely experience...
3) Mascot
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, people work hard, kids go to school, and football is big on Friday nights. An eighth-grade English teacher creates an assignment for her class to debate whether Rye's mascot should stay or change. Now six middle schoolers--all with different backgrounds and beliefs--get involved in the contentious issue that already has the suburb turned upside down with everyone choosing sides and arguments getting...
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