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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A black family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dinner at Aunt Connie's is even more special than usual when Melody meets not only her new adopted cousin but twelve inspiring African-American women, who step out of their portraits and join the family for dinner.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Macmillan Publishing Company
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jenny loses most of her friends and suffers the verbal abuse of classmates when she befriends a black girl who has moved with her family into Jenny's duplex and shares her interest in horses.
8) Plain City
Author
Publisher
The Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A 12-year-old "mixed" child feels out of place in her community and struggles to unearth her past and her family history as she discovers more about her missing father.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1994, c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Young Cassie Logan endures humiliation and witnesses the racism of the KKK as they embark on a cross-burning rampage, before she fully understands the importance her family attributes to having land of their own.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.