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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
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...
2) Native son
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
700L
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English
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Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
950L
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English
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In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage,...
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Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In this thrilling mystery, Easy Rawlins takes a job to find a missing attorney and his beautiful assistant—and faces danger around every corner.
It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn or borrow in time. And his friend Mouse tells him...
It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn or borrow in time. And his friend Mouse tells him...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Set in 1964, Easy is on a mission to lure Brawley Brown back to his mother. But not only is Brawley bad, he's big and not so easily swayed, especially since joining the Urban Revolutionary Party, a political group wary of strangers. Add to that a cache of stolen guns, secret government investigators, a payroll heist, several murders, problems with his son, and everybody lying about everything, plus his own crushing guilt over the apparent death of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. --- [Exerpt from back cover.]
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
900L
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English
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Even Grade, a twenty-eight-year-old African-American man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Korner, the teenage daughter of a promiscuous woman and an unknown father, meet through Even's lover Joody Two Sun, and embark on a quest for family, love, and commitment that takes them to places they never imagined they would go.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"When a man who fled the 1965 Watts riots is suspected of killing a woman in a nearby apartment building, Easy Rawlins begins a murder investigation and learns that the case has sobering racial origins."--from NoveList.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
750L
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English
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A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and...
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Midnight series (Sister Souljah) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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Souljah's follow-up to her bestselling novel, The Coldest Winter Ever, is another gritty coming-of-age tale, picking up the story of Midnight (a character in Coldest Winter) as he tries desperately to navigate American culture, Brooklyn streets and the dicey business of growing up. The novel begins as seven-year-old Midnight and his pregnant mother, Umma, are forced to leave their privileged life in Sudan for a hardscrabble American existence. Midnight...
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Benjamin January mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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This lush and haunting novel tells of a city steeped in decadent pleasures and of a man, proud and defiant, caught in a web of murder and betrayal.
It is 1833. In the midst of Mardi Gras, Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher, is playing piano at the Salle d'Orléans when the evening's festivities are interrupted-by murder.
The ravishing Angelique Crozat, a notorious octoroon who travels in the city's finest company, has been strangled...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
1450L
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English
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In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery. The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region. This story is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution....
14) The long fall
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Leonid McGill mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Leonid McGill, a New York City private detective, tries to put his past behind him. But it's not that easy when someone like Tony "The Suit" Towers expects you to do a job; when an Albany PI hires you to track down four men known only by their youthful street names; and when your 16-year-old son, Twill, is getting in over his head with a suicidal girl.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"The newest legal thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham. This masterfully plotted, perfectly paced novel confirms that Grisham remains America's favorite storyteller. In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on...
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