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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
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.
2) Legendborn
Author
Series
Legendborn volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights.
4) Dear Martin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.
7) Swing
Author
Publisher
Blink
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Noah and his best friend Walt want to become cool, make the baseball team, and win over Sam, the girl Noah has loved for years. When Noah finds old love letters, Walt hatches a plan to woo Sam. But as Noah's love life and Walt's baseball career begin, the letters alter everything.
Author
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
While playing in a crucial basketball game on the very court where his best friend was murdered, Mackey tries to come to terms with his own part in that murder and decide whether to maintain his silence or tell J.R.'s father and the police what really happened.
Author
Series
Song below water volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
A metaphorical tale follows the experiences of a Black teen siren and her haunted best friend, who find themselves targeted by violence when they are unable to hide their supernatural identities in an alternate world that discriminates against magic.
12) Punching the air
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The story of a young artist and poet whose prospects at a diverse art school are threatened by a racially biased system and a tragic altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood.
13) This way home
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elijah, seventeen, has always been sure of just one thing--basketball--and believes it will be his way out of West Baltimore, but when gang violence knocks him down, helping a veteran repair his rickety home helps Elijah see what really matters.
15) Concrete rose
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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. Set seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give.
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.
17) X: a novel
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the childhood of the civil rights leader to his imprisonment at age twenty, where he found the faith that would lead him to his path towards activism and justice.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 9
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she returns to her home in Mississippi after finishing law school, Cassie Logan becomes involved in voter registration drives and other aspects of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
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