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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gang leader's son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one's brutal murder, in a poignant exploration of Black coming-of-age set seventeen years before the events of the award-winning 'The Hate U Give'"--
Author
Series
The Hate U Give volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A page-turning YA contemporary novel about a Black teenager whose life is turned upside down when her white best friend becomes the latest "Becky" on the internet, and their town is left reeling from the publicity"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"A teen journalist uncovers the #metoo scandal of the decade: a bigshot Hollywood director is taking advantage of cast members"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"There's always been a hole in Gio's life. Not because he's into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No, the hole in Gio's life takes the shape of his birth mom, who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. For eight years, he never heard a word from her . . . and now, just as he's started to get his life together, she's back" --...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Quinn's journal is where she writes down everything -- in list format -- that she doesn't want to admit out loud, or even face; once they're written, she can release them and feel a little bit more at peace. When the journal goes missing and her list of biggest fears is posted online with a challenge to face each of them or else have the entire journal go public, it's time for Quinn to move out of the realm of her mind and into real life. She's not...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her sister is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau finds herself in way over her head while searching for a witness--and the truth--and must decide how much she is willing to risk to clear her sister's name.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began . . . and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with a broken heart, eventually.
As Evie tries to understand why this is happening, she finds herself at La Brea Dance studio, learning to waltz, fox-trot, and tango with...
14) Chaos theory
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Since Shelbi enrolled at Windward Academy as a senior and won't be there very long, she hasn't bothered making friends. What her classmates don't know about her can't be used to hurt her--you know, like it did at her last school. Andy Criddle is not okay. At all. He's had far too much to drink. Again. Which is bad. And things are about to get worse. When Shelbi sees Andy at his lowest, she can relate. So she doesn't resist reaching out. And there's...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following in the footsteps of her überfamous grandma, eighteen-year-old Evie Jones is poised to be Hollywood's next big star. That is until a close friend's betrayal leads to her being blacklisted. Fortunately, Evie knows just the thing to save her floundering career: a public appearance with America's most beloved actor, her grandma Gigi, aka the Evelyn Conaway. The only problem? Gigi is a recluse who's been out of the limelight for almost twenty...
16) Blackout
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark"--