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2021., Adolescent, Feiwel & Friends Call No: Mystery Fic Abike-Iyimide Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Almost as soon as two black students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are chosen to be senior class prefects at Niveus Private Academy, an anonymous bully named Aces begins revealing private information about them that both embarrasses them and threatens their futures at elite colleges. When the bullying turns serious, Devon and Chiamaka unite to find out who is behind the threats.
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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, Quill Tree Books Call No: Romance Fic Clayton Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Presents a collection of six short romance stories about black teens by various authors that are all set in contemporary New York City during a summer blackout due to a heat wave. The characters are all either on their way or eventually heading to a block party in Brooklyn and confront a mix of feelings associated with varying stages of relationships, including instant connections, reconciling a past break-up, and friendships on the cusp of love.
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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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[2020]., Juvenile, Crown Books for Young Readers Call No: REALISTIC F STO Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. But adventure quickly turns to uncertainty: G'ma keeps changing the license plate, dodging Scoob's questions, and refusing to check Dad's voice mails. And the farther they go, the more Scoob realizes that the world hasn't always been a welcoming place for kids like him, and things aren't always what they seem--G'ma included"--Jacket flap.
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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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[2021]., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: Sci Fi Fic Morris Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Alex Rufus's curse of seeing the future distracts him from being and doing his best, but when he sees his little brother Isaiah's imminent death, he races against time, death, and circumstances to save him.
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By Pink, Randi2021., Adolescent, Square Fish/Feiwel and Friends Call No: Historical Fic Pink Edition: First Square Fish edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In the summer of 1972, three girls from very different backgrounds struggle to come to terms with being pregnant.
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2024., Adolescent, MTV Books Call No: ROMANCE F CAS Edition: First MTV Books hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When sixteen-year-old Zeke expresses romantic interest in his best friend Imogen, her unexpected reaction sends their relationship into a tailspin.
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2021., Adolescent, Square Fish/Henry Holt and Company Call No: Realistic Fic Magoon Edition: First Square Fish edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Told from multiple viewpoints, relates how Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators.
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2021., Adolescent, Penguin Books Call No: Sci Fi SC Pho Genre: Science fiction, Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A collection of sixteen stories of fantasy, science fiction, and magic featuring black and gender non-conforming characters.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: Fantasy Fic Brown Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: A Song of Wraiths and Ruin Volume: Book 2Summary Note: After Karina lost her throne and kingdom to a violent coup, she has become the most-hunted person in the land of Sonande. Her only hope now of getting back her crown rests in a divine power kept in a long-lost ancestral city. Meanwhile, Malik has become Farid's apprentice, and found some peace in the midst of the disaster of Karina's sister's resurrection, but when it becomes apparent Karina is the key to restoring balance in the chaos, Malik--who once tried to kill Karina--must find a way to win her back to his side and save the world.
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-- Sitting in Saint James[2021]., Adolescent, Quill Tree Books Call No: Historical Fic Williams-Garcia Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1860 Louisiana, on a failing plantation, the matriarch of the Guilbert family tries to hold on to the last vestiges of their power and prestige. Entwined in their struggle are their brutally treated slaves, including sixteen-year-old Thisbe, who is the matriarch's personal servant. As the antebellum power structure crumbles, Thisbe and the the other plantation slaves wait for their moment to pursue a long road to freedom.
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2021., Adolescent, Tor Teen Call No: Fantasy Fic Morrow Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In a modern world where sirens are persecuted, Tavia Phillips chooses to stay silent and communicates with sign language. Her sister-by-choice, Effie Calhoun Freeman, plays a mermaid at a local Renaissance fair and has strange abilities that grow stronger each day. When the murder of a local black girl is justified by accusations that she's a siren, both Tavia and Effie take a stand, using powers that may save them or lead to their demise.
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2022., Adolescent, Ember Call No: Realistic Fic Johnson Edition: First Ember edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.
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2021., Adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: Romance Fic Gregorio Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: High school juniors Jocelyn Wu and Will Domenici fall in love while trying to save the Wu family restaurant. However, family prejudices and the teens' own mental health issues threaten to derail their new relationship.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books Call No: Horror Fic Jackson Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When Marigold moves from California to the small Midwestern city of Cedarville with her newly blended family, nothing will ever be the same. Her mom's new job with the Sterling Foundation comes with a free house, a picture-perfect, historic house on Maple Street, and Mari has to share this house with her annoying ten-year-old stepsister, Piper. But when weird things start happening in the house and her concerns don't seem to be taken seriously by anyone else, Mari starts to wonder if it's all in her head or it has something to do with what's in their basement.