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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past. Alternating chapters tell the story of William, another teen grappling with the racial firestorm leading up to the 1921 Tulsa race riot, providing some clues to the mystery"--
2) Flygirl
Author
Language
English
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During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
Author
Series
Bluford series volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
Ben McKee, a new student at Bluford High School, tries to hide the bruises covering his body from his teachers and his new friends.
6) So done
Author
Series
Language
English
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"When best friends Metai and Jamila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and looming auditions for a potentially life-changing new talented-and-gifted program"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Star Fuentez reaches social media stardom, her polar-opposite twin, Moon, becomes "merch girl" on a tour bus full of beautiful influencers and the grumpy but attractive Santiago Philips.
When her twin sister reaches social media stardom, Moon Fuentez accepts her fate to be nothing more than her sister's camerawoman. Then Moon takes a summer job as the "merch girl" on a tour bus full of beautiful influencers and her fate begins...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
When his family's restaurant and Cuban American neighborhood in Miami are threatened by a greedy land developer, thirteen-year-old Arturo, joined by Carmen, a cute poetry enthusiast, fight back, discovering the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of José Martí.
10) Brothers in arms
Author
Series
Bluford series volume 9
Publisher
Townsend Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Martin Luna, a new student at Bluford High, is at the center of this story. Haunted by the tragic death of his little brother, Martin seeks one thing: revenge. But his mother wants more for her only remaining child. Will Martin listen to her, or will he allow anger to control him?--Publisher description.
11) Street pharm
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Since inheriting his father's business at age sixteen, Ty has developed the skills and discipline needed to succeed as Brooklyn, New York's, top drug dealer but when things go bad he must fight to survive.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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A disaster in romance, high school senior Desi Lee decides to tackle her flirting failures by watching Korean television dramas, where the hapless heroine always seems to end up in the arms of her true love by episode ten.
Author
Language
English
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Description
After an incident at school, seventeen year-old Alaine is spending spring break in a "volunteer immersion project", toiling away under the ever-watchful eyes of Tati Estelle and her eagle-eyed mother at a new nonprofit in Haiti. Although it is meant as punishment, Alaine is still able to flirt with Tati's distractingly cute intern, get some actual face time with her mom and experience her family's history in Haiti for the first time.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
At seventeen Simone Thibodeaux is fed up with her over-protective mother's insistance on micro-managing her life, like picking her prom date from a "nice" Haitian immigrant family, and anyway she is determined to attend with Gavin Stackhouse (even if he does not know that yet); so together with her fellow late-bloomer friends Simone comes up with a bucket list of rule-breaking (like cutting classes, and sneaking out of the house)--but soon things...
15) Blood is thicker
Author
Series
Bluford series volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Hakeem has a hard time adjusting when, due to his father's sickness, Hakeem and his family must move in with his uncle in distant Detroit, especially when he has to share his room with his moody cousin Savon.
Author
Language
English
Description
"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--
1890, Atlanta. Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night she moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper...
17) Rain rising
Author
Series
Rain novels (Comrie) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Rain, who struggles with low self-esteem, must overcome sadness after her older brother Xander is severely beaten up at a frat party, but through the help of an after-school circle group, Rain finds the courage to help herself and her family heal.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Well-mannered Samuel and his mischievous younger brother Joshua are free black boys living in an orphanage during the end of the Civil War. Samuel takes the blame for Joshua's latest prank, and the consequence is worse than he could ever imagine. He's taken from the orphanage to the South, given the new name of Friday, and sold into slavery. What follows is a heartbreaking but hopeful account of Samuel's journey from freedom to captivity, and back...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school, but when family secrets come out and racism at school gets worse than ever, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand"--
It's fine that Lilliana's best friend, Jade, is all caught up in her new boyfriend lately. It's fine that her inner-city high school is disorganized and underfunded. It's fine that her father took off again, and she's left with her increasingly...
Author
Series
Door of no return volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A novel in verse about an Asante boy who is captured and taken from his village during the nineteenth century."--
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