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[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: REALISTIC F RAM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. But in junior high, it's like all the rules have changed. Now she's suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying she's not black enough. After experiencing a powerful Black Lives Matter protest, though, Shay starts wearing an armband to school in support of the movement. Soon everyone is taking sides. And she is given an ultimatum. Shay is scared to do the wrong thing OR the right thing; but if she doesn't face her fear, she'll be forever tripping over the next hurdle. Now, that's trouble, for real.
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[2019], Pre-adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she'd also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact, learn to run track, and have a cute boy see past her giant forehead.) But in junior high, it's like all the rules have changed. Now she's suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying she's not black enough. Wait, what? Shay's sister, Hana, is involved in Black Lives Matter, but Shay doesn't think that's for her. After experiencing a powerful protest, though, Shay decides some rules are worth breaking. She starts wearing an armband to school in support of the Black Lives movement. Soon everyone is taking sides. And she is given an ultimatum. Shay is scared to do the wrong thing (and even more scared to do the right thing), but if she doesn't face her fear, she'll be forever tripping over the next hurdle. Now that's trouble, for real"--Provided by publisher.
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[2019]., General, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Young Adult Fiction RAM Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After attending a powerful protest, Shayla starts wearing an armband to school to support the Black Lives Matter movement, but when the school gives her an ultimatum, she is forced to choose between her education and her identity.
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[2017]., Adolescent, Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. Call No: GRAPHIC NOVELS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store.
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[2017]., Adolescent, Tu Books Call No: GN I Am Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Alfonso Jones is buying his first suit--dreaming of playing Hamlet in his school's hip-hop version of the Shakespearian play and finally telling Danetta how he really feels about her--when an off-duty cop mistakes his coat hanger for a gun and shoots him. In the afterlife, Alfonso finds himself on a ghost train guided by police shooting victims, while in life his family and friends struggle to confront their grief.
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[2017]., Adolescent, Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. Call No: GN-REALISTIC I Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Project LIT Book The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Nancy Paulsen Books Call No: REALISTIC F MAL Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Biracial sixth-grader Stephen questions the limitations society puts on him after he notices the way strangers treat him when he hangs out with his white friends and learns about the Black Lives Matter movement.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Nancy Paulsen Books Call No: FIC MALDONADO Genre: Realistic fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Biracial sixth-grader Stephen feels like he's living in two worlds, each with different rules. He's starting to notice that strangers treat him differently than his white friends and as he learns about the Black Lives Matter movement, he discovers how to navigate race and friendships.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Nancy Paulsen Books Call No: FIC MALDONADO Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Biracial sixth-grader Stephen feels like he's living in two worlds, each with different rules. He's starting to notice that strangers treat him differently than his white friends and as he learns about the Black Lives Matter movement, he discovers how to navigate race and friendships.
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[2020]., Pre-adolescent, Nancy Paulsen Books Call No: TEEN FIC MAL Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: Biracial sixth-grader Stephen questions the limitations society puts on him after he notices the way strangers treat him when he hangs out with his white friends and learns about the Black Lives Matter movement.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Nancy Paulsen Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Biracial sixth-grader Stephen feels like he's living in two worlds, each with different rules. He's starting to notice that strangers treat him differently than his white friends and as he learns about the Black Lives Matter movement, he discovers how to navigate race and friendships.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Bushel & Peck Books Call No: LS Sin Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Famous heroes from Black history reassure young Black children that no matter where they are and what they experience, their lives matter.