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"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 740L
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English
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At Niveus Private Academy, Devon and Chiamaka are the only students chosen to be Senior Prefects who are also black, which makes them targets for a series of anonymous texts revealing their secrets to the entire student body. Both students were on track toward valedictorian and bright college futures, but this prank quickly turns into a very dangerous game and they are at more than one disadvantage as it looks like things could turn deadly.
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Hollywood High volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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They're the daughters of celebrities--the kind all the teen mags gossip about! But the It Girls of Hollywood High are about to discover that fame has a price. And no friendship--or romance--is safe. . .
London Phillips will diet as her mother demands. She'll even date the billionaire her mother has chosen for her. But she won't give up her secret hottie, Justice Banks. She and Justice plan to elope--right after he becomes a hip-hop superstar. All...
4) Prime choice
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Perry Skky Jr. series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Prime Choice
Book 1
Torn between his desire for sex and his desire to please God, Perry Skky Jr. needs some guidance—before he lets down both himself and the Lord. . .
It's Perry's senior year—and he has every reason to feel good about himself. One of the most popular kids in his class, he's not only the best football player in the state, he's also acing every one of his AP classes. College recruiters are beating down...
Book 1
Torn between his desire for sex and his desire to please God, Perry Skky Jr. needs some guidance—before he lets down both himself and the Lord. . .
It's Perry's senior year—and he has every reason to feel good about himself. One of the most popular kids in his class, he's not only the best football player in the state, he's also acing every one of his AP classes. College recruiters are beating down...
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"New England, 1957. The Kindred sisters--Ezra and Cinthy--grew up with an abundance of love. Love from their parents, who let them believe that the stories they tell on stars can come true. Love from their neighbors, the Junketts, the only other Black family in town, whose home is filled with spice-rubbed ribs and ground-shaking hugs. And love for their adopted hometown of Salt Point, a beautiful village perched high up on coastal bluffs. But as the...
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Keysha novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Keysha Kendall is a judge's signature awayfrom foster care when she's sent to live with the father shenever knew. Suddenly she has her own room in his big fancyhouse, a high-powered stepmother and a popular half brotherwho can introduce her to all the right people at her new school.
But Keysha can't forget where she came from. And she won't letanyone else, either. Why should her father and his perfect familyhave it so easy when...
But Keysha can't forget where she came from. And she won't letanyone else, either. Why should her father and his perfect familyhave it so easy when...
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A collection of short stories explore what it is like to be young and black, centering on the experiences of black teenagers and emphasizing that one person's experiences, reality, and personal identity are different than someone else's.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 620L
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English
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Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the care of a church-going black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it? She wouldn't say. Mary survived six years in baby jail before being dumped in a group home. The house isn't really...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
760L
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English
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Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
10) Legendborn
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Legendborn volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
730L
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English
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"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."--
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"Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Her sights are set on securing passage aboard Captain Ann-Marie's smuggler airship Midnight Robber, earning the captain's trust using a secret about a kidnapped Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls the Black God's Drums. But Creeper keeps another secret close to her heart-- Oya, the African orisha of the wind and storms, who speaks inside her head and grants...
12) Perfect score
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 640L
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English
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Aspiring PI Jolene Kelley is skipping class at her fancy new private school, North Shore Prep, when she witnesses her beloved guidance counselor fall in front of an oncoming L train. The police call Mr. Medina's death a tragic accident, but Jo knows what she saw: This was murder. With help from her friends Sabrina and Frankie -- and the inside scoop from her public-defender parents and her mentor at the state's attorney office--Jo opens up her own...
13) Splintered magic
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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When disturbing images keep appearing in Tai's camera lens, Trey and Tai reignite their search for their mother, who mysteriously disappeared 10 years earlier, uncovering strange secrets about their magical ancestors and a threat to their very existence.
"Twins Trey and Tai are not like other high schoolers. Trey struggles to suppress his surging magical abilities, which continually impede his dream of making first-chair cello in orchestra. A budding...
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Dismas Hardy novels volume 16
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English
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Late one night, a teenage African American foster child named Tanya Morgan plummets to her death from the overpass above San Francisco's Stockton tunnel. But did she fall...or was she pushed? Rushing to produce a convictable suspect in the glare of the media spotlight, homicide inspectors focus their attention on a naive young man named Greg Treadway.
15) Crystal clear
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From Lifetime Career Achievement Rita Award winner, USA Today bestseller, and NAACP Image Award Nominee, a story from Beverly Jenkins's acclaimed Blessings Series ...
This novella--taking place after A Wish and a Prayer and before Heart of Gold --shares the inside story of fan-favorite, Crystal Chambers Brown's adventures as a runaway.
A safe, stable life should be the everything that teenaged Crystal ever wanted; but though she knows she...
This novella--taking place after A Wish and a Prayer and before Heart of Gold --shares the inside story of fan-favorite, Crystal Chambers Brown's adventures as a runaway.
A safe, stable life should be the everything that teenaged Crystal ever wanted; but though she knows she...
16) The hate u give
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Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she's forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of Khalil?
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Song below water volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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In a society determined to keep her under lock and key, Tavia must hide her siren powers. Meanwhile, Effie is fighting her own family struggles, pitted against literal demons from her past. Together, these best friends must navigate through the perils of high school's junior year. But, everything changes in the aftermath of a siren murder trial that rocks the nation, and Tavia accidentally lets out her magical voice at the worst possible moment. Soon...
19) First kiss
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Head over heels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
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English
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Lola has strong feelings for her new boyfriend, but she is keeping a secret from him.
20) Fading Amber
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Cambion chronicles volume 3
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English
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Finding your soul mate is the ultimate dream come true. But for Samara Marshall, it's a matter of life and death. . .
After falling for a Cambion and then turning into one herself, Samara never thought her senior year could get more complicated. The gaps in her memory, the mysterious deaths, and the constant danger that threaten her once quiet town have a common thread: Tobias, a demon with a lot of enemies. He's also Samara's other soul mate and...
After falling for a Cambion and then turning into one herself, Samara never thought her senior year could get more complicated. The gaps in her memory, the mysterious deaths, and the constant danger that threaten her once quiet town have a common thread: Tobias, a demon with a lot of enemies. He's also Samara's other soul mate and...
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