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Jazmin’s Notebook
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Nikki Grimes |
Her name is Jazmin, and like the music of her name, her life throbs and swings—a few flat notes to be sure, but also bursting with rich passages that rise and soar. Sitting on her stoop she fills her… |
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A visitation of spirits
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Randall Kenan |
From Publishers Weekly
As its title suggests, a powerful strain of mysticism runs through this story of personal awakening in a black North Carolina family, but first-time novelist Kenan has a rare … |
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Plain City
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Virginia Hamilton |
Twelve-year-old Buhlaire, a "mixed" child who feels out of place in her community, struggles to unearth her past and her family history as she gradually discovers more and more about her long-missing… |
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The Bells of Christmas
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Virginia Hamilton |
Summary, Twelve-year-old Jason describes the wonderful Christmas of1890 that he and his family celebrate in their home in Springfield, Ohio. |
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Drylongso
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Virginia Hamilton |
As a great wall of dust moves across their drought-stricken farm, a family's distress is relieved by a young man called Drylongso, who literally blows into their lives with the storm. |
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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 House of Dies Drear
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Virginia Hamilton |
A black family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad. |
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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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Twinkle, twinkle, little star
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Jane Taylor,Jeanette Winter |
In this version of the familiar nineteenth-century poem celebrating one bright little star, the illustrations depict people and animals from around the world. Holes allow the "starlight" to show from… |
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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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Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission
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Christopher Paul Curtis |
Steven and his best friend Russell are back!When Russell's dog, Rodney Rodent, jumps into a mural to chase a demonic-looking gnome and disappears, the Flint Future Detectives are on the case. With th… |
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Small steps
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Louis Sachar |
Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But it's hard when you have a record, and everyone expects the worst from you. Th… |
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First Pink Light
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Eloise Greenfield |
A little black boy determines to stay up all night so he can welcome his father home in the morning. |
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Not Yet, Yvette
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Helen Ketteman |
A girl waits impatiently as she and her father prepare a surprise birthday party for her mother. |
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett |
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi… |
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Shipwreck Saturday
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Bill Cosby |
Although his brother's friends make fun of it, Little Bill is very proud of the toy boat he has built and very upset when it is wrecked the first time he puts it in the water. |
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The Orange Houses
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Paul Griffin |
Meet Tamika Sykes - Mik to her friends (if she had any). She's hearing impaired and way too smart for her West Bronx high school. She copes by reading lips and selling homework answers, and looks for… |
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Romiette and Julio
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Sharon M. Draper |
Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harrassed by a gang whose members object t… |
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The Best Way To Play
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Bill Cosby |
Little Bill and his friends, avid fans of the television show "Space Explorers," clamor to get the video game version, but they find that they have more fun using their imagination while playing outs… |
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Color Me Dark
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Patricia McKissack |
An ordinary girl living extraordinary events. Her family, Love, characterizes her comfortable, secure world in Bradford Corners, TN. Until Uncle Pace is murdered by the KKK.
The Author gradually e… |
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