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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
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970L
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English
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"The haunting coming-of-age story that has become a major American classic, now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old...
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"Brooklyn, 2001. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, sixteen-year-old Melody celebrates her coming of age wearing a custom-made dress - the very same dress that was sewn for Melody's mother for a celebration that ultimately never took place. Unfurling the history of Melody's family - from the 1921 Tulsa race massacre to post 9/11 New York - Red at the Bone explores sexual desire, race, class and the life-altering facts of parenthood,...
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A new edition of this award-winning modern classic, with an introduction by Tayari Jones (An American Marriage), an excerpt from the never before seen follow-up, and discussion guide.
Pakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle’s, estimation, but she’s also...
Pakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle’s, estimation, but she’s also...
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"After their father dies of an overdose and the debts incurred from his addiction cause the loss of the family home in Detroit, Kenyatta Bernice (KB) and her sister, Nia, are sent by their overwhelmed mother to live with their estranged grandfather in Lansing. Over the course of the summer, KB attempts to get her bearings in a world that has turned upside down. Pinballing between resentment, abandonment, and loneliness, she is forced to carve out...
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Isaiah Dunn volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
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English
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"Isaiah is now the big man of the house. But it's a lot harder than his dad made it look. His little sister, Charlie, asks too many questions, and Mama's gone totally silent. Good thing Isaiah can count on his best friend, Sneaky, who always has a scheme for getting around the rules. Plus, his classmate Angel has a few good ideas of her own--once she stops hassling Isaiah. And when things get really tough, there's Daddy's journal, filled with stories...
8) Logic
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Logicand Vernon return to the Deep South with the story of a young girl struggling to free herself from the unspeakable condition she refers to as the "butterflies floating inside"
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Yolanda Joe, author of the Blackboard best-seller Bebe's By Golly Wow, crafts a touching novel about returning to your roots to understand where you're headed. Terri Mills' star is on the rise. A smart and ambitious lawyer, she has everything going for her-until her fiancé is unfaithful. Suddenly facing an uncertain future, Terri travels to Arkansas and the bedside of her ailing grandmother, who has plenty of wisdom to share.
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"The Book of Harlan opens with the courtship of Harlan's parents and his 1917 birth in Macon, Georgia. After his prominent minister grandfather dies, Harlan and his parents move to Harlem, where he eventually becomes a professional musician. When Harlan and his best friend, trumpeter Lizard Robbins, are invited to perform at a popular cabaret in the Parisian enclave of Montmartre--affectionately referred to as "The Harlem of Paris" by black American...
11) My fine lady
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Talented young singer Imani is surrounded by men with their own interest in her career--including her father, her boyfriend, and Orenthal Hopson, who believes that he can transform her from a hip-hop diva to a traditional jazz singer.
12) The good Negress
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Rejoining her family in 1963 Detroit in order to help prepare for a new baby, Denise Palms witnesses her two older brothers' painful entrance into the adult world and questions her own heritage in the light of a tutor's relentless instruction.
13) Eden
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A fourteen-year-old African-American girl in Mississippi is sent to care for her cancer-stricken aunt on the other side of town, where she learns about crime, brutal forms of "justice," and dignity in death.
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Tommy Lee Tyson volume 01
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English
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Twenty-eight-year-old protagonist Tommy Lee Tyson steps off the Greyhound bus in his hometown of Swamp Creek, Arkansas, a place he left when he was eighteen, vowing never to return. Yet fate and a Ph. D. in black studies force him back to his rural origins as he seeks to understand himself and the black community that produced him.
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1998.
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A black family disintegrates after the mother, an accountant, begins outshining her husband, an artist. The fights become more frequent, the couple split and the wife hits the bottle. More fights follow, these with her daughters, one of whom is accidentally killed, and the mother goes to jail. The story is told in part by the surviving daughter, a law student. By the author of Do Remember Me.
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