Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Children Of The Night Children Of The Night Jess Mowry Enter what is an alternative universe to most of America, a West Oakland, California neighborhood, circa 1990, where 13-year-old Ryo is luckier than many kids because he has a mother, Tracy, who love… OL15370228W
The Bridge The Bridge Jess Mowry Thirteen-year-old Bilal Taimur was raised as a Muslim but is questioning his faith... as well as many other things that boys of his age often question. His middle-class parents were killed in a car w… OL15806198W
Babylon Boyz Babylon Boyz Jess Mowry Dante, Pook, and Wyatt, 8th-graders in a rundown West Oakland, California school plagued by guns, gangs, drugs and violence as well as inept or indifferent teachers, don't have many choices in life. … OL15964441W
Megacool Megacool Jess Mowry German edition of Way Past Cool OL16267027W
Six Out Seven Six Out Seven Jess Mowry Like Way Past Cool, Mowry's powerful third novel tells a story of coming-of-age young, black and poor in America; a tale about a 13-year-old boy from the rural South seeking escape from the ghosts of… OL16420702W
Midnight Sons Midnight Sons Jess Mowry Alaska, one of earth's final frontiers, still mostly unspoiled by human beings who've ravaged much of the rest of the planet. This is the voyage of *Arctic Avenger* -- formerly the steam tug, *Rhinoc… OL16721652W
Drawing From Life Drawing From Life Jess Mowry Meet Jerry Mathers, who, though resembling the middle-aged “Beaver,” bears no other relation, having been born in the 1970s when that illusion of American life was almost a decade dead. His mother, w… OL16804182W
Magic Rats Magic Rats Jess Mowry Tumbleweed Terrace Desert View Homes somewhere south of Tucson, Arizona -- “A nice place to raise your kids,” as promised by a faded billboard usually used as a vulture perch -- is broiling under a … OL16808929W
Spencer's Spirit Spencer's Spirit Jess Mowry Thirteen-year-old Spencer Dray, an intelligent, well-read, home-schooled boy already offered scholarships by prestigious colleges, is delighted when he and his parents move from their rented West Oak… OL17891127W
The Insiders The Insiders Jess Mowry In the near future, after many thousands of years of hate, racism, religious and ethnic persecution, bloody conquests, inequality, exploitation and war, the world’s people are finally beginning to co… OL27731169W
Ghost Train Ghost Train Jess Mowry 13-year-old Remi DuMont, newly arrived from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where his family lived in poverty, hopes that life will be different in West Oakland, California, where refrigerators, hot running w… OL3254097W
Phat Acceptance Phat Acceptance Jess Mowry Some might say that 14-year-old Brandon Williams is an over-privileged white kid. He lives in a million-dollar house overlooking the ocean in Santa Cruz, California, gets a weekly allowance equal to … OL3254098W
Rats In The Trees Rats In The Trees Jess Mowry Rats In The Trees was Jess Mowry's first book, written in 1989 and published by John Daniel & Co. of Santa Barbara, California in 1990. It's a collection of interrelated stories of many street kids, … OL3254099W
Skeleton Key Skeleton Key Jess Mowry 13-year-old Jarrett Ross has been no more than a ghost for months, a lonely ghost crying in the darkness where no one can see or hear him. A drug dealer put moves on his mom, got her addicted, and no… OL3254100W
Six Out Seven Six Out Seven Jess Mowry Thirteen-year-old Corbitt Wainwright's adolescence is abruptly cut short when his father is imprisoned for attacking a white man. Tragically, dreams of success through good grades and hard work are … OL3254107W