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Her stories
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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. |
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Hot girl
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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. |
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Copper sun
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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… |
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The girl who fell from the sky
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Heidi W. Durrow |
Multiracial fiction |
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The road to Paris
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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. |
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Becoming Billie Holiday
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Carole Boston Weatherford |
Jazz vocalist Billie Holiday looks back on her early years in this fictional memoir written in verse. |
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Teenie
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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 … |
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Subway girl
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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… |
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Yellow Bird and me
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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. |
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Love
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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… |
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Decision time
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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… |
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I love my hair!
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Natasha Tarpley |
A young African American girl describes the different, wonderful ways she can wear her hair. |
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Good luck, Anna Hibiscus!
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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… |
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We Should All Be Feminists
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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… |
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Foster care odyssey
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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 … |
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Rebellion
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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"-- |
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Subway
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Anastasia Suen |
A young girl and her mother enjoy a ride uptown on a city subway. |
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Sahara Special
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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. |
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The colors of us
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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. |
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Veronique
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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… |
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