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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
Author
Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.
Author
Series
Ryan Hart novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
The Hart family of Portland, Oregon, faces many setbacks after Ryan's father loses his job, but no matter what, Ryan tries to bring sunshine to her loved ones.
Author
Series
Midnight series (Sister Souljah) volume 2
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
Midnight's efforts to rescue his wife trigger unexpected consequences that mark his journey into adulthood.
11) Get a hit, Mo!
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking, published by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2016].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mo Jackson is excited for his baseball game, but Coach Marie tells him he is batting last and playing right field, again. Will Mo ever get a hit? -- Provided by publisher.
13) Night Hawk
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Bounty hunter Ian Vance, haunted by his beloved wife's murder, never expected to feel love again, but when he meets Maggie Freeman, a woman slated to hang for a crime she didn't commit, he realizes that he now has something--and someone--to live for.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people's connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45,000. Baszile explores this crisis, through the farmers' personal experiences. In their own words, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why...
15) A slave no more: two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
16) Fences: a play
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
During the 1950s Troy Maxson struggles against racism and tries to preserve his feelings of pride in himself.
Language
English
Description
2019 marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha Blain. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines -- historians and artists, journalists and novelists--each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period to create a dynamic multivoiced single-volume history of black people in America....
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From "one of the greatest writers of our time" (Toni Morrison)—the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God—a collection of remarkable stories, including eight "lost" Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time.
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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their formidably strong-willed eldest sister is arrested, abruptly transitioning their family from respectability to disgrace, two younger sisters confront complicated dynamics in their family and identities to uncover what really happened.
20) These hands
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An African American man tells his grandson about a time when, despite all the wonderful things his hands could do, they could not touch bread at the Wonder Bread factory. Based on stories of bakery union workers; includes historical note.
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