Search Results: Returned 18 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 18
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-- Armstrong and Charlie2017., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: FIC FRANK Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When Armstrong Le Rois gets signed up to be bussed to an all-white school in a different neighborhood, he's not sure what to think. And when he meets his deskmate, Charlie Ross, they're an unlikely pair. But as the year goes on, the two learn that there's nothing worth fighting for more than a true friend.
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-- Armstrong and Charlie.[2017]., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Young adult FIC FRANK Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade boys, one black, one white, become best friends as they learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s"--
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-- Ball do not liec2005., Adolescent, Delacorte Call No: Sports Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream. (Socio-Economic Diversity).
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-- Ball do not lie2005., Adolescent, Delacorte Call No: Sports FIC PENA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream.
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-- Ball do not liec2005., Delacorte Press Call No: SPORTS F PEN Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream.
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-- Ball do not liec2005., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: Sports FIC Pena Edition: 1st trade pbk. ed. Genre: Sports Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles. He is headed for the pros, but is unaware of the many dangers, including his own past, that threaten his dream.
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-- Ball do not lie.2005., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: SPORTS FICITON Availability:1 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives to play basketball at school and at Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles and is headed for the pros, but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream.
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[2020]., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: HISTORICAL FIC HAM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
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[2020]., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: YOUNG ADULT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
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[2020]., Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: HISTORICAL F HAM Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
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2022., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BYFR Call No: Historical Fic Hammonds Reed Edition: First Simon & Schuster BYFR paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
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[2017], Pre-adolescent, Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: REALISTIC F ENG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Atheneum Call No: Historical Fiction FIC GUT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: Historical Fic Engle Edition: First edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY Call No: HISTORICAL F CHO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On the first night of rioting in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, Jordan's father leaves to check on the family store, spurring twelve-year-old Jordan and his friends to embark on a dangerous journey through South Central and Koreatown to come to his aid, encountering the racism within their community as they go.
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Ã2022., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: HISTORICAL FIC CHO Edition: 1st trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On the first night of rioting in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, Jordan's father leaves to check on the family store, spurring twelve-year-old Jordan and his friends to embark on a dangerous journey through South Central and Koreatown to come to his aid, encountering the racism within their community as they go.
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2023., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: [Fic] Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: On the first night of rioting in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, Jordan's father leaves to check on the family store, spurring twelve-year-old Jordan and his friends to embark on a dangerous journey through South Central and Koreatown to come to his aid, encountering the racism within their community as they go.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Nancy Paulsen Books Call No: HISTORICAL F WOO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In August 1965, twelve-year-old Eden's older cousin from Mississippi comes to visit her in Los Angeles, and while the Watts Riots erupt around them, they continue their investigation of the disappearance of Winter's father ten years ago.
