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Her stories Her stories Leo Dillon,Virginia Hamilton,Diane Dillon A few folktales, animal tales, fairy tales and even some actually true herstories collected and retold by Virginia Hamilton. OL112094W
Hot girl Hot girl Dream Jordan Kate, a fourteen-year-old Brooklyn girl and former gang member, risks losing her first good foster family when she adopts the risqué ways of her flirtatious new friend, Naleejah. OL12005893W
Copper sun Copper sun Sharon M. Draper Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary t… OL12484W
The girl who fell from the sky The girl who fell from the sky Heidi W. Durrow Multiracial fiction OL13839077W
The road to Paris The road to Paris Nikki Grimes Inconsolable at being separated from her older brother, eight-year-old Paris is apprehensive about her new foster family but just as she learns to trust them, she faces a life-changing decision. OL15067195W
Becoming Billie Holiday Becoming Billie Holiday Carole Boston Weatherford Jazz vocalist Billie Holiday looks back on her early years in this fictional memoir written in verse. OL15070658W
Teenie Teenie Christopher Grant High school freshman Martine, longing to escape Brooklyn and her strict parents, is trying to get into a study-abroad program but when her long-time crush begins to pay attention to her and her best … OL15520783W
Subway girl Subway girl Peter Jacob Converse In Hong Kong, Chan Tze Man, called Simon Chan, leaves high school because he cannot master English, but when he befriends Amy, a Chinese American who knows little Chinese, their unlikely bond gives h… OL15631959W
Yellow Bird and me Yellow Bird and me Joyce Hansen Doris becomes friends with Yellow Bird as she helps him with his studies and his part in the school play and discovers that he has a problem known as dyslexia. OL15841199W
Love Love Toni Morrison From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida -- even L: all women obsessed by B… OL15843891W
Decision time Decision time Earl Sewell Keysha tries to cope with a rival trying to steal her star role in the school play, play practice leaving her little time to spend with her boyfriend, Wesley, and Wesley showing interest in another g… OL15988965W
I love my hair! I love my hair! Natasha Tarpley A young African American girl describes the different, wonderful ways she can wear her hair. OL16026063W
Good luck, Anna Hibiscus! Good luck, Anna Hibiscus! Atinuke "Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. Amazing Africa. She can't wait to fly across the world and visit her granny in Canada. But can she find enough warm clothes for the cold winter weather? And will her f… OL17310928W
We Should All Be Feminists We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie In this essay -- adapted from her TEDx talk of the same name -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first centu… OL17319838W
Foster care odyssey Foster care odyssey Theresa Cameron Abandoned by her teenage mother in 1954 to a overwhelmingly white charity organization so begins Theresa's life as a 'ward of the state' of New York. She shares the heartbreaking struggle to survive … OL17870432W
Rebellion Rebellion Karen Sandler "In this final installment of the Tankborn series, Kayla has been kidnapped by the group that has been bombing GEN warehouses, and she must pretend to sympathize with them in order to escape"-- OL17886653W
Subway Subway Anastasia Suen A young girl and her mother enjoy a ride uptown on a city subway. OL18829W
Sahara Special Sahara Special Esmé Raji Codell Struggling with school and her feelings since her father left, Sahara gets a fresh start with a new and unique teacher who supports her writing talents and the individuality of each of her classmates. OL1935751W
The colors of us The colors of us Karen Katz Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature. OL1989128W
Veronique Veronique Victoria Christopher Murray Fifteen-year-old Veronique's unhappiness at home increases her desire to find her father in New York, but when she goes there with her best friends, The Divas, and secretly meets someone who has been… OL2189394W
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