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1) 47
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Master storyteller Walter Mosley deftly mixes speculative and historical fiction in this daring New York Times bestselling novel, reminiscent of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad.
47 is a young slave boy living under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master. His life seems doomed until he meets a mysterious runaway slave, Tall John. 47 finds himself swept up in a struggle for his own liberation.
47 is a young slave boy living under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master. His life seems doomed until he meets a mysterious runaway slave, Tall John. 47 finds himself swept up in a struggle for his own liberation.
2) Feathers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
3) Foul trouble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"College recruiters are clambering to sign up Terrell Jamerson, the #1 high school basketball player in the country. But not all of these recruiters are straight shooters, and Terrell will have to think fast if he wants to stay in the game"--
4) True legend
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Drew "True" Robinson loves being the best point-guard prospect in high school basketball, but learns the consequences of fame through a former player, as well as through the man who expects to be his manager when True reaches the NBA.
5) Lockdown
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.
6) 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
8) Day of tears
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave "assets", possibly including Emma.
9) Game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Zane is itching for an adventure that will take him away from his family's boarding house in Rockaway, Queens. So when he is entrusted with a real treasure map, leading to a spot somewhere in Manhattan, Zane wastes no time in riding the ferry over to the city to start the search with his friends Kiko and Jack and his dog, Hip-Hop. Through strange coincidence, they meet a man who is eager to help them find the treasure: John, a sailor who knows all...
11) Scorpions
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs. The story of twelve-year-old Jamal, whose life changes drastically when he acquires a gun. Though he survives the experience, it's not without sacrificing his innocence and possibly his relationship with his best friend.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following her grandfather's death in rural North Carolina in 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae learns more about her family after reading her grandmother's collection of obituaries and traveling to Harlem, New York, to find her uncle who has escaped from the Ku Klux Klan.
Author
Series
Door of no return volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--
11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets… Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father’s...
14) Nigeria Jones
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"A sixteen-year-old girl whose father is the leader of a Black liberation group discovers her own place in the world"--
Warrior Princess. That's what Nigeria's father calls her. He's raised her as part of the Movement, a Black separatist group based in Philadelphia. Nigeria is homeschooled and vegan and participates in traditional rituals that connect her and other kids from the group to their ancestors. But when her mother--the perfect matriarch...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive Connecticut girls' school where she is the only black student, fourteen-year-old Lahni Schuler feels like an outcast, particularly when her parents separate, but after attending a local church where she hears gospel music for the first time, she finds her voice.
17) Good fortune
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Brutally kidnapped from her African village and shipped to America, a young girl struggles to come to terms with her new life as a slave, gradually rising from working in the fields to the master's house, secretly learning to read and write, until, risking everything, she escapes to seek freedom in the North.
18) Joseph's grace
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Now a high school junior, Joseph Flood contends with grief over his late cousin Jasmine, his mother's addictions and pleas for money, the distance between himself and his father in Iraq, making the tennis team, and a new relationship.
19) The Final Four
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Four players at the Final Four of the NCAA basketball tournament struggle with the pressures of tournament play and the expectations of society at large.
20) Pinned
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Adonis is smart, intellectually gifted and born without legs; Autumn is strong, a great wrestler, and barely able to read in ninth grade--but Autumn is attracted to Adonis and determined to make him a part of her life whatever he or her best friend thinks.
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