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[2021]., Adolescent, Quill Tree Books Call No: Mystery Fic Blake Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When a series of brutal murders involving bodies drained of all blood occur throughout the Midwest, the authorities are mystified. But when the Carlson family is murdered in their Minnesota farmhouse, the police find a lead in the form of Marie Catherine Hale who is found at the scene covered in blood. Michael Jenson, son of the local sheriff, dreams of becoming a journalist and sees the story as his big break. Marie decides Michael is the only one she will tell her story to, and he jumps at the chance. But as Marie reveals her tale, Michael begins wonder if he can trust anything she says.
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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., Adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers Call No: Historical Fic Shabazz Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: While in Charlestown Prison in the 1940s, young Malcolm Little reads all the books in the library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam, and emerges as Malcolm X.
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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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2021., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Historical Fic Cameron Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva does not know if she can trust anyone she meets, least of all Jake Katz, the young man she is attracted to.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: Realistic Fic Thomas Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Maverick "Mav" Carter begins dealing drugs for the King Lords as a way to help support his family while his father is in jail. When he learns that his girlfriend is pregnant, his focus shifts and he tries to make a clean break from drug dealing. However, a loved one's murder makes it difficult to forget his old ties, and he must figure out for himself the meaning of loyalty, manhood, and responsibility.
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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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2021., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Sci Fi Fic Richmond Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In an alternate world, no atomic weapons were invented and the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is fought at the Pax Games with robotic mecha war machines operated by young pilots. The 1963 games are about to begin and the stakes are high. Jo Linden is invited to compete for Team USA and since she needs the prize money to save her father's mecha repair shop, she agrees. However, soon she learns pilots are dying of poisoning and a deadly political plot puts the world at risk of World War III.