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[2021]., Pre-adolescent, Holiday House Call No: REALISTIC F CLI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and struggles in 1940's Chicago.
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2022., Adolescent, Feiwel and Friends Call No: MYSTERY F GOO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Sixteen-year-old Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she's grown up in. But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister's name by finding the only witness to the murder; Katia's no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing. If she doesn't find him and tell the world what really happened, Katia's death will be ignored, like the deaths of so many other Black women who are wrongfully killed. With the help of her friend, Sonnet, Beau sets up a Twitter account to gather anonymous tips. But the more that Beau finds out about her sister's death, the more danger she finds herself in. And with a new relationship developing with her childhood friend, Champion, and the struggle to keep her family together, Beau is soon in way over her head. How much is she willing to risk to clear her sister's name and make sure she's not forgotten?"--From the publisher's web site.
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-- Young prince2019., Juvenile, Marvel Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Marvel Black Panther.Summary Note: "Life is comfortable for twelve-year-old T'Challa in his home of Wakanda, an isolated, technologically advanced African nation. But as conflict brews near Wakanda, T'Challa's father makes a startling announcement: he's sending T'Challa and his friend M'Baku to school in America and they've been enrolled at South Side Middle School in the heart of Chicago. Despite being given a high-tech suit and a Vibranium ring, T'Challa realizes he might not be as equipped to handle life in America as he thought. Especially when it comes to navigating new friendships while hiding his true identity as the prince of a powerful nation, and avoiding Gemini Jones, a menacing classmate who is rumored to be involved in dark magic. When strange things begin happening around school, T'Challa sets out to uncover the source. But what he discovers in the process is far more sinister than he could ever have imagined. In order to protect his friends and stop an ancient evil, T'Challa must take on the mantle of a hero, setting him on the path to becoming the Black Panther."--p. [4] of cover.
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2006, Primary, Marshall Cavendish Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Simply SarahSummary Note: When two pigeons that Sarah wants as pets move from her Chicago apartment's window ledge to the building next door, Sarah tries to figure out how to get them to come back.
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-- Diary of Pringle Rose2013, Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Dear AmericaSummary Note: It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
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[2019]., Blink Call No: MYSTERY F GAB Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As the city of Chicago tries to recover from the violent gang rule of the Death Mob, Lia Finch, a sixteen-year-old girl with severe asthma, works with an unexpected network of strangers to discover the truth behind her father's murder.
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-- Everywhere you do not belong2020., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: REALISTIC F BUM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A darkly funny and heartfelt debut novel about what it means to grow up young and black on the south side of Chicago when it feels like your choices are slim to none"--Provided by the publisher.
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[2002], c2001., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: FIC PEC Middle School Library Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Holiday House Call No: Historical fiction FIC CLINE-RANSOME Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
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2012., Aladdin Call No: FIC MAGOON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.
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2017., Pre-adolescent, Viking Call No: FIC PEREZ Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve-year-old MarÃa Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: Fic Rhodes Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
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2018., Pre-adolescent, LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY Call No: REALISTIC F RHO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: Supernatural Fic Rhodes Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Seventh-grader Jerome is mistakenly shot by a white police officer, and as a ghost, observes the turmoil in his community as a result of his death. He then meets the ghost of Emmett Till who helps Jerome understand how systemic racism led to his death, but also understand how far the effects of his death really go by introducing him to the grieving daughter of the police officer who struggles with her father's actions.
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2013., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
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2022., Adolescent, LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY Call No: MYSTERY F AHM Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
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-- Great Chicago Fire, 18712023., Pre-adolescent, Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Call No: Graphic Novel TARSHIS Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Robbed on the train platform as soon as he arrives in the city, eleven-year-old Oscar Starling soon finds himself in the middle of the Great Chicago Fire when he chases after his thief, who is herself in need of rescue.
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-- Great Chicago Fires, 18712023., Primary, Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: FIC BAL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: I Survived Volume: 7Summary Note: Robbed on the train platform as soon as he arrives in the city, eleven-year-old Oscar Starling soon finds himself in the middle of the Great Chicago Fire when he chases after his thief, who is herself in need of rescue.
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-- Great Chicago Fire, 1871[2015]., Adult, Scholastic Inc Call No: FIC TAR Genre: Historical fiction Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Series Title: I survivedSummary Note: In this book of the I SURVIVED series, one boy will struggle to stay alive as the great city of Chicago burns.