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1) Native son
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English
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Bigger, a young black man in Chicago, kills his first victim in a moment of panic. He then goes on to kill again. The book describes the feelings of freedom and identity Bigger gains from these acts.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
After her father dies within hours of being married to a white woman, a ten-year-old black girl learns with her new mother to overcome grief and to adjust to a new place in their rural black South Carolina community.
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Series
Contender volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A Harlem high school dropout escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing gym, where he learns that being a contender is hard and often discouraging work, but that you don't know anything until you try.
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Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
8) Wagon wheels
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
9) My "u" book
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Little "u" fills her box with umbrellas and many other things that begin with the short letter "u".
10) I am an explorer
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c 1990
Language
English
Description
During a trip to the park, a child explores a cave, a mountain, a jungle, and a desert.
11) 1920's: Luck
Author
Series
Century kids volume 4
Publisher
Millbrook Press, Inc
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1927 the Dixons move from rural Georgia to Chicago, where African Americans have more opportunities, and there Lorraine meets a famous movie actress and her little brother Marcus finds that his artistic talents are useful.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During the Depression, a rural African-American family deeply attached to the forest on their land tries to save it from being cut down by an unscrupulous white man.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Pretty Pearl, a spirited young African god child eager to show off her powers, travels to the New World where, disguised as a human, she lives among a band of free blacks who have created their own separate world deep inside a vast forest.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Although adoption has taken them out of the New Jersey institution where they grew up, eleven-year-old T.J. and his younger brother Moondance remain involved with their friend Mop's relentless attempts to become adopted herself and to wreak revenge on their baseball rivals the obnoxious Eagles.
20) Slam!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.