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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
149 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing comes a new book of narrative in verse that takes a personal and historical look at the experience of Black girlhood. In the American imagination the contrasts between visibility and invisibility for Black girlhood are glaring. A recent report by the African American Policy Forum states that while Black girls make up only 16% of the female students in schools,...
2) Disgruntled
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An elegant, vibrant, startling coming-of-age novel, for anyone who's ever felt the shame of being alive Kenya Curtis is only eight years old, but she knows that she's different, even if she can't put her finger on how or why. It's not because she's Black--most of the other students in the fourth-grade class at her West Philadelphia elementary school are too. Maybe it's because she celebrates Kwanzaa, or because she's forbidden from reciting the...
6) Push
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
191 p ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
A courageous and determined young teacher opens up a new world of hope and redemption for sixteen-year-old Precious Jones, an abused young African American girl living in Harlem who was raped and left pregnant for the second time by her father
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