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2) Rebound
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Discovering her ability to see ghosts when a cruel act ends her father's life and forces her to move in with relatives in 1920s Pittsburgh, young Ophelia forges a helpful bond with a spirit whose own life ended suddenly and unjustly.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A gang leader's son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one's brutal murder, in a poignant exploration of Black coming-of-age set seventeen years before the events of the award-winning 'The Hate U Give'"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
6) Chlorine sky
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Picked on at home, criticized for talking trash while beating boys at basketball, and always seen as less than her best friend, a girl struggles to like and accept herself.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Formats
Description
From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Audre and Mabel, both young women of color from different backgrounds, fall in love and figure out how to care for each other as one of them faces a fatal illness.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In the summer of 1984, twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace of Huntsville, Alabama, visits her father in Harlem, where her fascination with outer space and science fiction interfere with her finding acceptance.
11) Ghost boys
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till--
12) Campfire stories
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 8
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
121 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Desmond, Andres, and their ghost-friend Zax take turns trying to tell the scariest story of all while gathered around the campfire on a camping trip.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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Description
A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self.
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 6
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
When Andres discovers that he has had a monster encounter without knowing it as strange things start happening in the school cafeteria, he and Desmond investigate.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
16) Ashes
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
298 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 9
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Desmond and Andres go to the museum to see the new mummy exhibit, but when Andres falls into an ancient pot, strange things start happening in the museum.
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 3
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Desmond and Andres battle beach bullies who also happen to be creepy monsters--
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1997, c1994
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although he doesn't feel like talking, a young boy responds to questions by drumming on various objects, including a bucket, hat boxes, and garbage cans, echoing the city sounds around him.
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