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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?
2) The mothers
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 940L
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English
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"In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is...
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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...
7) Hoops
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
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English
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A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake.
8) For all time
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Lexile measure
HL 770L
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English
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Through countless lives, seventeen-year-olds Tamar and Fayard have fallen in love, fought to be together, and died but when they discover what it will take to break the cycle, will they be able to make the sacrifice?
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In his latest historical novel, bestselling author Robert Morgan brings to full and vivid life the story of Jonah Williams, who, in 1850, on his eighteenth birthday, flees the South Carolina plantation on which he was born a slave. He takes with him only a few stolen coins, a knife, and the clothes on his back-no shoes, no map, no clear idea of where to head, except north, following a star that he prays will be his guide. Hiding during the day and...
10) House party
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Aspiring club promoters and best buds Damon and Kevin are barely keeping things together. Out of money, down on their luck, and about to lose the roofs over their heads and freshly fired from their low-lift jobs as house cleaners the pair needs a huge windfall to make their problems go away. In a 'what the hell?' move, they decide to host the party of the year at an exclusive mansion, the site of their last cleaning job, which just happens to belong...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Jay is forced to continually cover for his sister, Nicole, who hangs out with the wrong crowd; however, Jay can't deal with it any more. Soon after, Nic fails to return home. When she's deemed missing, the police barely bother to search for her; she's just another lost Black girl. Jay feels guilty and he thinks, "If I hadn't hung up on her that night, she would be home spending time with our grandma. If I was a better brother, she'd be finishing senior...
12) Ashes of gold
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Series
Wings of ebony volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Rue has no memory of how she ended up locked in a basement prison without her magic or her allies. But she's a girl from the East Row. And girls from the East Row don't give up. Girls from the East Row pick themselves back up when they fall. Girls from the East Row break themselves out. But reuniting with her friends is only half the battle. When she finds them again, Rue makes a vow: she will find a way to return the magic that the Chancellor has...
13) The getaway
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 740L
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English
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"Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of the world's most famous resorts. He's got his family, his crew, and an incredible after-school job at the property's main theme park. Life isn't so great for the rest of the world, but when people come here to vacation, it's to get away from all that. As things outside get worse, trouble starts seeping into Karloff. First, Jay's friend Connie and her family disappear in the middle of the night...
14) Promise: a novel
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English
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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...
15) Keysha's drama
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Series
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...
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English
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"Sutton going missing is the worst thing to happen to Casey, to their family. She's trying to help find her sister, but Casey is furious. She knows Sutton is manipulative, meanwhile everyone paints a picture of her perfection. People don't look for missing Black girls--or half-Black girls--without believing there is an angel to be saved. When Sutton reappears, Casey knows she should be relieved. Except Sutton isn't the same. She remembers nothing...
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Dismas Hardy novels volume 16
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English
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On a cool night in May, a teenage foster child named Anlya Paulson plummets to her death from a San Francisco overpass. But did she fall?or was she pushed? Homicide inspectors focus their attention on a likeable but naïve middle school teacher and volunteer foster care advocate. At first, his only connection to Anlya?s death is the meal they shared earlier that night. But soon his story falls apart, and Rebecca Hardy, now an associate at her father?s...
18) 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...
19) Fading Amber
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Series
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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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.
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