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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Honor for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Middle School)
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Middle School)
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Description
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Author
Series
I survived volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the century -- alone?
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evelyn Del Rey is Daniela's best friend. They do everything together and even live in twin apartments across the street from each other: Daniela with her mami and hamster, and Evelyn with her mami, papi, and cat. But not after today--not after Evelyn moves away. Until then, the girls play amid the moving boxes until it's time to say goodbye, making promises to keep in touch, because they know that their friendship will always be special. The tenderness...
Author
Series
The Davenports (Krystal Marquis) volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in 1910 Chicago, and the two daughters, Olivia and Helen, are finding their way and finding love--even where they are not supposed to.
"The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made through the entrepreneurship of William Davenport, a formerly enslaved man who founded the Davenport Carriage...
5) Hands up!
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: Black History Month 2022
Children's Recommended: Diverse Books for Read Across America
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Recommended: Diverse Books for Read Across America
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Description
"A young girl lifts her hands up in a series of everyday moments before finally raising her hands in resistance at a protest march"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: C. S. King Honor for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Description
A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.
Author
Series
Absolutely Alfie volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After seven-year-old Alfie discovers that her best friend may not be inviting her or several other girls to her sleepover, arguments break out in the class, until Alfie's mother comes up with an idea to help everyone feel better.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: Best of 2021 School Library Journal
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Description
"Sixth-grader Wes Henderson sets out to save the Oaks, the neighborhood where he's lived his whole life, from being sold to a real estate developer"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Recommended: Black History Month 2022
Children's Recommended: Black History Month 2022
Formats
Description
Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen -- he can't wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and Clayton's mother forbids Clayton from playing the blues. And Clayton knows that's no way to live. Armed with his grandfather's brown porkpie hat and his harmonica, he runs away from home in search of the Bluesmen, hoping...
12) Speculation
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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2023 Winter Kit Reading List - Middle School
Children's New Books: June 2023 Middle Grade Chapter Books
Children's Recommended: 7th Grade 2023
Children's New Books: June 2023 Middle Grade Chapter Books
Children's Recommended: 7th Grade 2023
Description
In 1962, ten-year-old Winna Cole discovers a pair of magical spectacles that reveal both the friendly ghosts of her African American ancestors and a dangerous family curse.
13) Bayou magic
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Visiting her grandmother in the Louisiana bayou, ten-year-old Maddy begins to realize that she may be the only sibling to carry on the gift of her family's magical legacy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
J.D. the Kid Barber has already won a barber battle and appeared on local TV. Now he's the youngest barber to be invited to the Beauty Brothers Hair Expo in Atlanta!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse for Middle Schoolers
Description
The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
16) The real Santa
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Join one Black family on their journey to discover what the real Santa looks like in this joyous tale celebrating identity, family and holiday cheer, from the New York Times bestselling author of Bedtime Bonnet. It's not Christmas without Santa! But what does Santa truly look like? Does he match the figurines on the mantel, or the faces on our favoriteholiday sweaters? Does he look like you or like me? Find out in this joyous and cozy celebration...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help Avery get the recognition she craves, and it will also be a good idea for the school project about the history of her small North Carolina town, where racial tensions are never far from the surface--only it...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Why? distills the conversations many children and adults are having about race, injustice, and anger in communities throughout our country, and gives them context that young readers can connect with. Heartfelt and deeply piercing illustrations from Shane W. Evans will leave a lasting impact on readers of any age. One that will hopefully lead to more conversations, change, and peace within our own communities and the world." --
Author
Series
Isaiah Dunn volume 1
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"Isaiah is now the big man of the house. But it's a lot harder than his dad made it look. His little sister, Charlie, asks too many questions, and Mama's gone totally silent. Good thing Isaiah can count on his best friend, Sneaky, who always has a scheme for getting around the rules. Plus, his classmate Angel has a few good ideas of her own--once she stops hassling Isaiah. And when things get really tough, there's Daddy's journal, filled with stories...
20) Honest June
Author
Series
Honest June volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
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Children's New Books: January 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Recommended: 4th Grade 2023
Children's Recommended: Black History Month 2022
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Recommended: 4th Grade 2023
Children's Recommended: Black History Month 2022
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Description
Eleven-year-old June Jackson has always been good at making the people around her happy, even if that means avoiding telling them what she really thinks, but as she starts middle school, her fairy godmother puts a spell on her that forces her to speak only the truth--even to her friends and family.
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