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Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 520L
Language
English
Description
Tow-Kaye just learned that the love of his life is pregnant - and though he knows what the right thing to do is, he's scared to death to do it. Jeffrey hates having a mom who dresses like a teenager, but when another sexy mom moves in next door - well, that's a different kind of problem. In these and twenty-two other short stories and poems, readers plumb the inner lives of African American teenage boys.
Author
Series
The skin I'm in novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Maleeka Madison, insecure about her very dark skin, rejects the support of a new teacher, Miss Saunders, whose skin looks blotched because of a rare medical condition--but soon Maleeka begins to see that Miss Saunders could be a role model, and that she must learn to love herself and accept love from others.
3) Pinned
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 460L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adonis is smart, intellectually gifted and born without legs; Autumn is strong, a great wrestler, and barely able to read in ninth grade--but Autumn is attracted to Adonis and determined to make him a part of her life whatever he or her best friend thinks.
5) Money hungry
Author
Series
Raspberry Hill novels volume 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Queen, a spoiled and conceited African American girl who is disliked by most of her classmates, learns a lesson about friendship from an unlikely "knight in shining armor."
Author
Series
Raspberry Hill novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Raspberry Hill tries to sort out her confused feelings of disgust, shame, and love for her homeless, drug addicted father and worries that she may have inherited his lying and stealing ways.
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