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1) 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.
4) Dope sick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices.
5) The Cruisers
Author
Series
Cruisers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Friends Zander, Kambui, LaShonda, and Bobbi, caught in the middle of a mock Civil War at DaVinci Academy, learn the true cost of freedom of speech when they use their alternative newspaper, The Cruiser, to try to make peace.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
David Curry doesn't know what to make of his father, Reuben, who's violent out bursts and chilling nightmares torment his family. His older brother, Tyrone, says Reuben is crazy. But lately, even Tyrone isn't acting like himself. Then David meets the mysterious Mr. Moses, who tells him that dreams might be the only things we have that are real. And it is Mr. Moses's gift of dreams that gives David a new way to see inside his father's troubled heart....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
During an eventful summer in Harlem, fourteen-year-old Mouse and his friends fall in and out of love and search for a hidden treasure from the days of Al Capone. It's summertime in Harlem, and The Mouse (as he calls himself) and his friends look beyond dance contests and basketball for diversion. The rumor of a huge cash stash in an abandoned building in Harlem left by gangster Tiger Moran in 1930 offers possibilities. Each chapter begins with a rap...
8) Street love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
This story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated.
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
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of love, such as a dying father's determination to help start a family business--a beauty salon--and the relationship of two teens who plan to remain celibate until they marry.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
One street. One block. Ten unforgettable stories. Some of these stories are the ones behind the headlines, the lives that go on after the facts fade from the news. Others are private, even mysterious. Salty, wrenchingly honest, here are stories whose characters jump off the page to pull readers into their lives.
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