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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Mma lives and works in Johannesburg, far from the village 13-year-old Naledi and her younger brother, Tiro, call home. When their baby sister suddenly becomes very sick, Naledi and Tiro know that they need to bring their mother back in order to save their sister's life. Bravely, secretly, they set off on the long journey to the big city to find Mma.It isn't until they finally reach Jo'burg that they see up close what life is like for black citizens...
2) Cy in chains
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the post-Civil War South, a seventeen-year-old African American boy, accused of a crime, is living in a labor camp where brutality, near starvation, humiliation, and rape are commonplace.
3) Seeing red
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1921, fifteen-year-old Noble Chase hates the sheriff of Wekiwa, Oklahoma, and is more than willing to cross him to help his best friend, a black man, who is injured during race riots in nearby Tulsa.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing.
8) Calico Girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Callie struggles to understand slavery when her stepbrother is sold away at the start of the Civil War, but is determined her whole family will be free one day. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A white child sees a TV news report of a white police officer shooting and killing a black man. "In our family, we don't see color," his mother says, but he sees the colors plain enough. An afternoon in the library's history stacks uncover the truth of white supremacy in America. Racism was not his idea and he refuses to defend it.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten years after the Civil War's end, twelve-year-old Addy, abandoned by her parents, is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by schoolteacher Frank Russell and his bride, but when her father returns to claim her she must find another way to leave her O'Donnell past behind.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering a long-kept secret about themselves.
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