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2) Remember us
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"The summer before seventh grade, as the constant threat of housefires looms over her Brooklyn neighborhood, basketball-loving Sage is trying to figure out her place in her circle of friends, when a new kid named Freddy moves in"--
3) Feathers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Frannie doesn't know what to make of the poem she's reading in school. She hasn't thought much about hope. There are so many other things to think about. Each day, her friend Samantha seems a bit more "holy." There is a new boy in class everyone is calling the Jesus Boy. And although the new boy looks like a white kid, he says he's not white. Who is he? During a winter full of surprises, good and bad, Frannie starts seeing a lot of things in a new...
4) Show Way
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The making of "show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
6) Visiting day
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
8) Locomotion
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.
Author
Language
English
Description
"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,...
10) Harbor me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Six kids discover the power of sharing their secrets and their stories... It all starts when six kids are sent to a room for a weekly chat-by themselves, with no adults to listen in. At first they fear this new unfamiliar and wonder what on earth they'll even talk about. But in the place they dub the ARTT room (“A Room To Talk”), they discover it's safe to discuss stuff they usually keep private. A father has recently gone missing, and that starts...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
As the daughter of biracial parents, fourteen-year-old Staggerlee already feels like an outsider in her largely African-American community, and a summer with her cousin Trout during which both girls question their sexuality, allows Stagerlee to think about the type of person she can become.
12) Hush
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
14) Pecan pie baby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Language
English
Description
When Mama's pregnancy draws attention away from Gia, she worries that the special bond they share will disappear forever once the baby is born.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Description
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South"--
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the...
20) Behind you
Author
Series
If you come softly volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that 'Miah is watching over them.
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