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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Violet is smart, funny and biracial. Her African American father died before she was born, and she has grown up with just her white mother and white older sister. Now that she is eleven, she feels it is time to learn about her African American heritage, so she seeks out her paternal grandmother.
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Vanderbeekers volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As they look forward to the New York City Marathon in which their friend Mr. B. will run, the Vanderbeeker children learn that one of their good friends is homeless.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"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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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ruby, a Black girl who loves studying insects, accidentally captures an alien bug, but when the creature escapes and starts wreaking havoc around the neighborhood, it is up to Ruby and her rag-tag group of friends to find this new invasive species before the feds do.
25) Hair love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self.
26) Come on, rain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.
27) Dave at night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance.
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English
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On Bernadine Brown's fifty-second birthday she received an unexpected gift-she caught her husband, Leo, cheating with his secretary. She was hurt-angry, too-but she didn't cry woe is me. Nope, she hired herself a top-notch lawyer and ended up with a cool $275 million. Having been raised in the church, she knew that when much is given much is expected, so she asked God to send her a purpose.
The purpose turned out to be a town: Henry Adams, Kansas,...
30) Amazing Grace
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grace loves stories. She likes to read them, see them in movies, and make them up herself. And even more than hearing stories, she loves to act them out. Sometimes she's a pirate, or Aladdin with a magic lamp, or Mowgli in the backyard jungle. Now Grace is sad. Her class is putting on a play called Peter Pan. Guess what part she wants to play? But Raj says she can't be Peter Pan because she's a girl. And Natalie says she can't because she's black....
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
An international bestseller that sold more than 300,000 copies when it first appeared in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin was dismissed by some as abolitionist propaganda; yet Tolstoy deemed it a great work of literature "flowing from love of God and man." Today, however, Harriet Beecher Stowe's stirring indictment of slavery is often confused with garish dramatizations that flourished for decades after the Civil War: productions that relied heavily on melodramatic...
32) Soul food Sunday
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Granny teaches her young grandson how to cook the family meal, in this celebration of food, traditions, and gathering together at the table. Includes recipe for baked macaroni and cheese.
35) Hoodoo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1930s Alabama, twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher is the only member of his family who seems unable to practice folk magic, but when a mysterious man called the Stranger puts the entire town at risk from his black magic, Hoodoo must learn to conjure to defeat him.
36) Show way
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
37) Flygirl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
38) Heaven
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents.
Coretta Scott King author award book : 1999.
40) Breathless
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Series
Language
English
Description
"A strong-willed beauty finds herself in the arms of the handsome drifter from her past and finds the courage to pursue her dreams"--
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