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Author
Series
Mo Jackson series volume 5
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
On Field Day, Mo swims a lot faster than he knew he could, not because his team might win but because a fish keeps nibbling his toe.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
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Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
6) Kicks
Author
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Description
This is a love letter to sneakers. But not just any sneakers. Only the flyest, floatiest, you-est kicks you can get--the ones that let you soar! This colorful, rhythmic adventure has something to offer anyone who prizes a great pair of shoes and any reader who loves to play with words.
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Upon arriving at the prestigious Wooddale University, seventeen-year-old Savannah Howard comes face-to-face with microaggressions and outright racism--but if she stands up for justice, will she endanger her future?
10) Fast pitch
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Shenice Lockwood dreams of leading the Fulton Firebirds to the U12 softball regional championship. But Shenice's focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending--and family-name-ruining--crime may have been a setup. It's up to Shenice to discover the truth about her family's past--and fast--before secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever"--
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
Chris loves his long, curly hair, so why do his classmates tease him about it? When he looks for answers in his mirror, something wonderfully wild and weird happens: a lady appears with wise words that make him feel like a king! But when he starts acting like a king at school, it s time for another visit to the mirror.
12) The black mage
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
159 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
When Tom Token is accepted into St. Ivory Academy, a historically white wizarding school, he begins uncovering strange clues and stumbles onto a conspiracy that could cost him his very soul.
13) The crossover
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
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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.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club (Graphic novels) volume 12
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
134 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Feeling isolated as the only African American in her class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
15) The hate u give
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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.
16) On the come up
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When sixteen-year-old Bri, an aspiring rapper, pours her anger and frustration into her first song, she finds herself at the center of a controversy.
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Formats
Description
Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
230 pages / 22 cm
Description
When Mariah and her young brother Zeke are suddenly freed from slavery, they set out on Sherman's long march through Georgia during the Civil War. Mariah wants to believe that the brutalities of slavery are behind them forever and that freedom lies ahead. When she meets Caleb, an enigmatic young black man also on the march, Mariah soon finds herself dreaming not only of a new life, but of true love as well. But even hope comes at a cost, and as the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"American Girl® Melody? stands up for what's right in this all-new Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader that takes place in 1964--and includes more than 30 stickers! Melody Ellison loves singing and gardening, and is inspired by friends and family and the Civil Rights Movement to make changes in her community. Melody's story of leadership and making one's voice heard is sure to engage today's readers as they learn what it was like to be a girl...
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