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1) Dope sick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of love, such as a dying father's determination to help start a family business--a beauty salon--and the relationship of two teens who plan to remain celibate until they marry.
4) Lockdown
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Although adoption has taken them out of the New Jersey institution where they grew up, eleven-year-old T.J. and his younger brother Moondance remain involved with their friend Mop's relentless attempts to become adopted herself and to wreak revenge on their baseball rivals the obnoxious Eagles.
8) Checkmate
Author
Series
Cruisers volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Four middle-schoolers who publish an alternative newspaper at their Harlem academy for gifted students investigate why a classmate--one of the best chess players in New York City--was caught trying to buy drugs.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Follows a family's two hundred forty-one year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.
10) A star is born
Author
Series
Cruisers volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Zander's play, Act Six, brings Da Vinci Academy into the spotlight, especially when LaShonda's costume designs win her an opportunity she can accept only if she is willing to leave her autistic brother and their group home behind.
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