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1) Freewater
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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AUSD Book Battles 2024: 6th & 7th Grades
Children's Awards: C. S. King Award for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Award for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
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Description
Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there's no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines, secret doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the swamp.
2) Dear Martin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
4) Feathers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
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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.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Caldecott Medal for Quality Illustrations
Children's Collection Highlight: Wonderbooks
Children's Collection Highlight: Wonderbooks
Description
The adventures of Peter, a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.
Author
Series
Zoe Washington stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: 4th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: 4th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Special Topics: New e-Audiobooks November 2021
Children's Recommended: 4th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Special Topics: New e-Audiobooks November 2021
Description
"Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Award for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
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Description
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
10) I can do it too!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: Toddler Time Selections
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Patron Recommendations: SEL Books for 4 years old
Recommendations: Manners/Self-Confidence/Sleep/Independence for 3-year-old
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Patron Recommendations: SEL Books for 4 years old
Recommendations: Manners/Self-Confidence/Sleep/Independence for 3-year-old
Formats
Description
Supported by her family, an African American girl is self confident about what she can do and in turn supports a younger family member.
11) P.S. Be eleven
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The Gaither sisters are back in Brooklyn, where changes large and small come to their household as they grow up during the turbulent 1960s.
12) Legendborn
Author
Series
Legendborn volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
After her mother dies in an accident, Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC-Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape-- until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus. A young mage who calls himself a 'Merlin' attempts-- and fails-- to wipe Bree's memory of everything she saw. His failure unlocks Bree's own unique magic and a buried...
13) Hair love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - 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 Special Topics: CYRM Nominees for 2021_22
Children's Recommended: Diverse Books for Read Across America
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Special Topics: CYRM Nominees for 2021_22
Formats
Description
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.
14) Sugar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
15) Bloodmarked
Author
Series
Legendborn volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"When the leaders of the Order reveal that they will do everything in their power to keep the approaching demon war a secret, Bree and her friends go on the run so she can learn how to control her devastating new powers"--
16) Shoelaces
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An African American girl describes the joys of all different kinds of shoelaces.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library.
18) Dear Justyce
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.
Author
Series
Gaither sisters volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Spending the summer with their grandmother in the rural South, three sisters from Brooklyn discover the surprising reason behind their mother's estrangement from their aunt.
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