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Growin'
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Nikki Grimes |
Pump thinks her world has ended when her father, the only person who believed in her poetry, suddenly dies. That is, until she meets Jim Jim. |
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Willie Bea and the time the Martians landed
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Virginia Hamilton |
In October of 1938, on their farm homestead in Ohio, a black family is caught up in the fear generated by the Orson Welles "Martians have landed" broadcast. |
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Zeely
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Virginia Hamilton |
Geeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who closely resembles the magazine photograph of a Watutsi queen. |
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Taking liberty
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Ann Rinaldi |
After serving Martha Washington loyally for twenty years, Oney Judge realizes that she is just a slave and must decide if she will run away to find true freedom. |
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The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl
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Virginia Hamilton |
Pretty Pearl, a spirited young African god child eager toshow off her powers, travels to the New World where, disguised as a human, she lives among a band of free blacks who have created their own se… |
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M. C. Higgins, The Great
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Virginia Hamilton |
Summary, As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills,fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they l… |
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The mouse rap
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Walter Dean Myers |
You can call me Mouse, 'cause that's my tag I'm into it all, everything's my bag my ace is Styx, he'll always do Add Bev and Sheri, and you got my crew...and a crew it is! For fourteen-year-old Mouse… |
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What Mary Jo Shared
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Janice May Udry |
Mary Jo has a hard time figuring out a unique thing to share with her classmates. |
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Fear Itself
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Walter Mosley |
Paris Minton is a man who would just as soon walk away from trouble as stand up to it. But in 1950s Los Angeles, sometimes trouble just comes and gets you. "Fearless Jones shows up at Paris Minton's … |
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Mr. Chickee's funny money
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Christopher Paul Curtis |
Mr. Chickee, the genial blind man in the neighborhood, gives 9-year-old Steven a mysterious bill with 15 zeros on it and the image of a familiar but startling face. Could it be a quadrillion dollar b… |
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The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou
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Kristin Hunter Lattany |
A fourteen-year-old girl tries to reconcile her dreams and hopes for the future with the harsh and often unpleasant realities of life in the Negro section of town. |
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God only knows
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Xavier Knight |
Julia Turner, an ambitious educator in her mid-thirties, leaves a high-profile job in Chicago to return to Dayton, Ohio to serve as superintendent of Christian Light, the K-12 private school system f… |
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Derelict
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50 Cent,Relentless Aaron |
Despite the opinions of others, who view him merely as a derelict, Johnny "Pooh" Thompson follows his own wayward path toward self-destruction. |
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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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Baby says
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John Steptoe |
Summary, A baby and big brother figure out how to get along. |
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First semester
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Cecil R. Cross |
James “JD” Dawson grew up in the hood, but left a life of violence three thousand miles behind to make something of himself at Clark Atlanta University. But when the freshman got off to a fool’s sta… |
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Secret Saturdays
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Torrey Maldonado |
A poignant look into one fatherless twelve-year-oldÆs struggles with friendship and trust.Sean is JustinÆs best friend, at least Justin thought he was. But lately Sean has been acting differently. Se… |
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Sarny, a life remembered
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Gary Paulsen |
Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-fou… |
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Shanna's princess show
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Jean Marzollo |
Shanna gives five clues that explain how she knows that she is a princess. |
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Let my people go
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Patricia McKissack |
The daughter of a free black man who worked as a blacksmith in Charleston, South Carolina, in the early 1800s recalls the stories from the Bible that her father shared with her, relating them to the … |
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