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Ã2013., Anchor Books, a division of Random House LLC Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st Anchor Bks. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--Provided by publisher.
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By Pink, Randi2021., Adolescent, Feiwel and Friends Call No: Historical Fic Pink Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Angel Hill, sixteen, and Isaiah Wilson, seventeen, attend the same African American school in 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma, but don't hang around in the same circles until a job working for a mobile library brings them together. As they collaborate for work, they bond over their knowledge of black civil rights authors and begin a tentative relationship. However, when a white mob attacks their community, the two realize they must put their civil rights theories into action.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: Sports Fic Rhodes Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Donte is the darker-skinned brother of Trey, which in his racist, mostly-white school has earned him the nickname Black Brother. When the captain of the school fencing team successfully frames him for something he didn't do, Donte is arrested and suspended from school. Joining a local youth center, Donte meets former Olympic fencer Arden Jones and begins training to defeat his school bully and find courage to confront the racist system that got him arrested.
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: FIC ALEXANDER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: F Ale Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.
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2016., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: F ALE #2 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.
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[2016], Adolescent, Fulcrum Publishing Call No: FIC BRU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 1874, the U.S. Army sent troops to subdue and move the Native Americans of the Southern plains to Indian reservations, and this chronicles the brief and brutal war that followed. Told from the viewpoint of two youths from opposite sides of the fight, this is a tale of conflict and unlikely friendship in the Wild West"--
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[2021]., Viking Call No: 811.6 Gor Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Contains a collection of poems by former National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, discussing issues of racism, the COVID-19 pandemic, identity, and national and personal history.
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Ã2014., General, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 741.5 ALE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
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[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 741.5 Graphic Novel ALEXANDER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
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Ã2014., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: GRAPHIC NOVELS Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
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2014, Primary, G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA Call No: JUV004000 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: American Ballet Theater soloist Misty Copeland encourages a young ballet student, with brown skin like her own, by telling her that she, too, had to learn basic steps and how to be graceful when she was starting out, and that some day, with practice and dedication, the little girl will become a firebird, too. Includes author's note about dancers who led her to find her voice.
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[2014], Primary, G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: JUV004000 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: American Ballet Theater soloist Misty Copeland encourages a young ballet student, with brown skin like her own, by telling her that she, too, had to learn basic steps and how to be graceful when she was starting out, and that some day, with practice and dedication, the little girl will become a firebird, too. Includes author's note about dancers who led her to find her voice.
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2019., Drawn & Quarterly Call No: GN Hot Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Presents a collection of comic strips centered around the experiences of African American women. With recreated advertisements for products to relax naturally curly hair and stories of black women finding their own racial identity and sense of self, these short stories present revelations about race and class in short vignettes.
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By Yoon, Nicola[2021]., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: Romance Fic Yoon Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Swearing off love after her father's affair, high school senior Evie Thomas begins having visions of happy couples' breakups after seeing them together. Having given up her romance novels, she reads "Instructions for Dancing" and signs up for dance classes at a local studio. There she meets X, who becomes her dance partner, teaching her to forgive and open up her heart again.
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[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: JUV001000 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When adventurous cousins Otto and Sheed Alston accidentally extend the last day of summer by freezing time, they find the secrets between the unmoving seconds are not as much fun as they expected.
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2021., Grove Press Call No: SC Mon Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition, First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Contains a collection of short stories by Dantiel W. Moniz about the lives of ordinary people living in the cities and suburbs of Florida and their experiences with family, faith, and forgiveness.
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2019., Grand Central Publishing Call No: Sci Fi Fic Butler Genre: Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Parable Of The Sower Volume: book 1Summary Note: When an environmental and economic crisis leads to social chaos and violence in California, fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina, who feels others' pain as her own, loses her family and home, and flees into the unprotected American landscape. What begins as a flight for survival soon leads to something more.
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[2019]., Grand Central Publishing Call No: Sci Fi Fic Butler Genre: Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 2032, Lauren Olamina's journals reflect an increasingly violent society where she searches for her abducted daughter Larkin, and tries to resist her community while promoting the religious group she has recently founded.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: Adventure Fic Rhodes Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Addy's parents were killed in a tragic fire years ago, and she still carries the trauma of this loss with her wherever she goes. When her grandmother sends her to a summer wilderness program in California, Addy finds herself learning to live in the forest with five other Black city kids. But those survival skills are soon put to the test when a forest fire erupts in the woods where they are camping.