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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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A mixed-heritage dancer's coming of age within the African diaspora is shaped by abuse at the hands of a cousin, her mother's descent into addiction, and her father's efforts to create a Nigerian-inspired home in America.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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From Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with
...3) Kneel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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When his best friend is unfairly arrested and kicked off the team, Russell Boudreaux kneels during the national anthem in an effort to fight for justice and, in an instant, falls from local stardom to become a target of hatred.
5) Grown
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now he's dead, the police are at the door, and all signs point...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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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
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"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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"In 'The Skin I'm In,' readers saw into the life of Maleeka Madison, a teen who suffered from the ridicule she received because of her dark skin color. For decades fans have wanted to know the fate of the bully who made Maleeka's life miserable, Char. Now in Sharon Flake's latest and unflinching novel, 'The Life I'm In,' we follow Charlese Jones, who, with her raw, blistering voice speaks the truths many girls face, offering insight to some of the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife Emily Shelby believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them—Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and...
11) How it went down
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children...
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children...
13) Beloved
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Banned Books throughout American History
Celebrate Black History Month: Adult
From Page to Screen: Part 1
More Lists...
Celebrate Black History Month: Adult
From Page to Screen: Part 1
More Lists...
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-- People) Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. “A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard,...
14) Little Scarlet
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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An irresistible story of love and death, this latest Easy Rawlins mystery takes place during the devastating 1965 Watts riots. Easy's hunt for a killer reveals a new city emerging from the ashes--and a new life for Easy and his friends.
15) Kindred
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A young African-American woman is mysteriously transfered back in time leading to an irresistable curiosity about her family's past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Banned Books throughout American History
Best 20th century books
Celebrate Black History Month: Adult
From Page to Screen: Part 2
Best 20th century books
Celebrate Black History Month: Adult
From Page to Screen: Part 2
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." —Zadie Smith
One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with
...17) Anger is a gift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Struggling with panic attacks and grief over his father's death, high school junior Moss, in the face of a racist school administration, decides to organize a protest that escalates into violence.
18) I, Alex Cross
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Determined to capture the psychopath responsible for murdering his niece, Alex Cross discovers that the young woman was among a dangerous group of people and was not the only one to have disappeared.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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"Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only...
20) Cross my heart
Author
Series
Alex cross volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In the latest novel of the series, the author raises the stakes to their highest level, ever, when Alex Cross becomes the obsession of a genius of menace set on proving that he is the greatest mind in the history of crime. Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart; nothing matters more to him than his children, his grandmother, and his wife Bree. His love of his family is his anchor, and gives him the strength to confront evil in his work. One...
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