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English
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Booker T. Washington’s classic memoir of enslavement, emancipation, and community advancement in the Reconstruction Era.
Born into slavery on a tobacco farm in nineteenth-century Virginia, Booker T. Washington became one of the most powerful intellectuals of the Reconstruction Era. As president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, he advocated for the advancement of African Americans through education and entrepreneurship....
Born into slavery on a tobacco farm in nineteenth-century Virginia, Booker T. Washington became one of the most powerful intellectuals of the Reconstruction Era. As president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, he advocated for the advancement of African Americans through education and entrepreneurship....
3) The cliffs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Some things must be learned the hard way . . . Reed sees an opportunity to teach the school bully not to mess with him, but ends up mangling the lesson. Robert, an exhausted single father, gets a crash course in parenting when he buys a fancy new teddy bear to watch and entertain his young son. Chris, eager to join the Science Club at school, agrees to undergo a grisly experiment to be accepted. But in the malevolent universe of Five Nights at Freddy's,...
4) Frontera
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Language
English
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"Mateo makes the dangerous journey back home to the United States through the Sonoran Desert with the help of a new friend, a ghost named Guillermo"--
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Concrete Kids is an exploration of love and loss, melody and bloodshed. Musician, playwright, and educator Amyra Leon takes us on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem, as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience"--
7) Blackbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
To avoid confronting an ugly truth, Nole falls prey to a monster that punishes past transgressions. Growing weaker by the day, nine-year-old Jake looks back on the time before he was sick, imagining life as if he were well again. And, forever desperate to prove his worth to his arrogant brother and distant father, Toby chases victory at an arcade game with horrifying consequences. But in the unpredictable world of Five Nights at Freddy's, sometimes...
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Curated by award-winning and best-selling poets, this wide-ranging poetry anthology represents twenty years of poetry from the students and alumni of Chicago's Oak Park River Forest High School Spoken Word Club.
10) Say her name
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Language
English
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"Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. Elliott engages poets from the past two centuries to create a chorus of voices celebrating the creativity, resilience, and courage of Black women and girls." -- amazon.com
11) Diverse energies
Author
Publisher
Tu Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this collection of original and rediscovered stories of tragedy and hope, the diverse stars are students, street kids, good girls, kidnappers, and child laborers pitted against their environments, their governments, and sometimes one another as they seek answers in their dystopian worlds--
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
viii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers, edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins. Whether you enjoy celebrating Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or New Years, there's something...
14) The hate u give
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Banned Books throughout American History
Celebrate Black History Month- Kids and Teens
Greenhorn Valley Book Club 2023
NYT - Young Adult Hardcover
Celebrate Black History Month- Kids and Teens
Greenhorn Valley Book Club 2023
NYT - Young Adult Hardcover
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
15) Saint death
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel about the illicit human and drug trade at the US-Mexican border.--
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
81 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Poet Renee Watson looks back at her childhood and urges readers to look forward at their futures with love, understanding, and celebration in this fully illustrated poetry collection"--
20) Shoot
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Language
English
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Description
SHOOT is a collection of 13 poems inspired by the many incidents of police brutality in 2020 as well and the black expeience of systemic racism in the United States. Written to heal myself, published to heal others.
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