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1) Team seven
Author
Language
English
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Description
A teen basketball player's promising career threatens to be derailed by the drugs and violence in his seedy neighborhood--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
Author
Publisher
Rosetta Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
47 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When her village is raided, a teenage girl finds herself on a brutal journey to the coast of Africa and across the Atlantic. Her only comfort is a small child who clings to her for protection. But once they board the slave ship, the child reveals her rebellious nature and warns that her mother -- a fierce warrior -- is coming to claim them all.--Back cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Best of 2019, Sent to the Pueblo Chieftain, Part 2
Celebrate Black History Month: Adult
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners
Celebrate Black History Month: Adult
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. • "One of the most gifted novelists in America today." —NPR
When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee,...
When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee,...
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Language
English
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Description
From Lifetime Career Achievement Rita Award winner, USA Today bestseller, and NAACP Image Award Nominee, a story from Beverly Jenkins's acclaimed Blessings Series ... This novella--taking place after A Wish and a Prayer and before Heart of Gold --shares the inside story of fan-favorite, Crystal Chambers Brown's adventures as a runaway. A safe, stable life should be the everything that teenaged Crystal ever wanted; but though she knows she should...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black parents. Her best friend, Cherish Whitman, adopted by a wealthy white family, is something Farrah likes to call WGS-White Girl Spoiled. With Brianne and Jerry Whitman as parents, Cherish is given the kind of adoration and coddling that even upper-class Black parents can't seem to afford-and it creates a dissonance in her best friend...
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