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1) Sag Harbor
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Language
English
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Description
Benji, one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, tries desperately to fit in, but every summer, he and his brother, Reggie, escape to the East End of Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals has built aworld of is own.
Author
Series
Bluford series volume 13
Publisher
Townsend Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Ben McKee desperately tries to find a way to get himself and his mother out of an abusive situation after his mom marries Larry Taylor.
3) The truth
Author
Series
Coming home volume 3
Publisher
Saddleback Educational Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A chance encounter brings Will closer to the truth. But at Karyn's urging, he leaves justice to the police. With the lies exposed, Will emerges stronger, bolder, and more confident."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Coming home volume 2
Publisher
Saddleback Pub
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Will is obsessed with Mike's murder, which terrifies Karyn. She's afraid he'll get hurt. But it's not Will who ends up in the hospital."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
In the African-American community of East Liberty, Pittsburgh, Chris "Crest" Tolbert, an eighteen-year-old boy left paralyzed following a recent accident, struggles to come to terms with the long-term implications of his injuries and with the loss of his best friend in the same accident, while, around him, family, friends, and neighbors deal with the hard realities of everyday life.
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Publisher
A Shout Mouse Press Production in collaboration with Shootback and Beacon House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Tajon is sixteen and black. He's tall and skinny, and he has dreadlocks. Tajon works hard and tries his best to be good. He does O.K. in school. He has plans. He's determined. Tajon is the kind of son who cares about his family. He's the kind of brother who stands up for his sister. He's the kind of kid who dreams big dreams to get himself and those he loves up and out of the hood. Tajon is the one who got shot.
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Series
Everyman's library volume 371
Language
English
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"The haunting coming-of-age story that has become a major American classic, now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old...
9) New kid
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and...
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