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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
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Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.
2) Home
Author
Formats
Description
"The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--
3) Sula
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1974, c1973
Physical Desc
174 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A Black woman returns to her Ohio hometown after a long absence and becomes an evil presence, until her death affects the residents.
Author
Series
Spyglass sisterhood volume 3
Formats
Description
When a classmate is being bullied online, Kiara and her friends use their magical spyglass to find out who is behind the online posts and bring the bully to justice.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Crushing on transfer student Delia, Darren, the host of the Dillie D in the Place to Be podcast, must make a decision when his anonymous submission for her theme song contest becomes the frontrunner.
9) Amor de pelo
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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.
10) The crossover
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
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Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
11) Mirror girls
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
Biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.
12) Lola gets a cat
Author
Series
Lola books (Anna McQuinn) volume 5
Formats
Description
More than anything Lola would like a cat, but first she must learn how to care for it.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Stymied by her unfinished family tree assignment for school, a young girl seeks Grandma's counsel and learns about her ancestors, the consequences of slavery, and the history of Black resistance in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Description
Two African American girls named Shakeeta and Mia become friends when Shakeeta boasts that she has a pet iguana and Mia learns how to help Shakeeta "feel at home" even when she is in school.
Author
Publisher
RP Teens
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Shy sixteen-year-old Ramona uses cosplay as a way to escape her shyness and feel seen, but when she emails her crush using her online persona, Rel, and he starts to fall for her, Ramona must decide whether to hide behind her character forever or take a chance and let her crush see the real her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
95 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Eleven-year-old Barry Hunter and his family attempt to ride out Hurricane Katrina at home in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans when his little sister gets ill, but when the levees break, Barry gets swept away from his family.
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