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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
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New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives and probes the persistence of stereotypes, the nature of revenge, the complexities of truth, and our insatiable hunger for sensationalism.
When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes...
4) Amara's farm
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There are many plants on Amara's farm. Today is the day she looks for her pumpkins.
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Karma's World volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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Karma and her friends are excited for the MC Grillz concert in their neighborhood. When the famous rapper's bus breaks down and the show is cancelled, Karma takes on the challenge of putting on her own concert, the Shine-a-Thon.
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"Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school. Black girls represent 16 percent of female students but almost half of all girls with a school-related arrest....
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Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every opportunity that comes her way. And Jade has: every day she rides the bus away from her friends and to the private school where she feels like an outsider, but where she has plenty of opportunities. But some opportunities she doesn't really welcome, like an invitation to join Women to Women, a mentorship program for...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
940L
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In this accessible "keep-it-real" guide, Marley explores activism, social justice, volunteerism, equity and inclusion, and using social media for good. Drawing from her experience, Marley shows kids how they can galvanize their strengths to make positive changes in their communities, while getting support from parents, teachers, and friends to turn dreams into reality.
10) Fresh Princess
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"She's got style. She's got flair. In all things fresh and princessy, she's got it licked! That is, until she moves to a brand-new neighborhood, where nothing looks quite the same as it did at her old house. And to make matters worse, she thinks everyone is a better double Dutch jumper than she is. This move is not fresh at all. But Destiny always has a plan. She'll stop at nothing to find the perfect chance to jump in! In the spirit of the Fresh...
11) Together we ride
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Told in rhyming text, a young African American girl learns to ride a bike, with the help of her father.
12) Dearest One
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The words of wisdom a grandmother might pass on to a growing child if she wrote her advice in the form of a letter.
13) Hurricane child
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
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Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press
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IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"Boo-hoo! Mimi is not having a good day. She can't get her pigtails to sit right, she's not in the mood for her favorite breakfast, and she's far from feeling like her usual self. Mimi has a case of the Blahs, where nothing feels quite right. With the help of Penelope, her magical toy dog and best friend, she sets out to find a way to get rid of this icky feeling. Will Mimi reclaim her spark, or will the Blahs get the best of her?"--Provided by publisher....
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"The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions"--
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IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Mae wanted to be an astronaut. She dreamed of dancing in space. She imagined herself surrounded by billions of stars, floating, gliding, and discovering. Her parents encouraged her, saying, "If you believe it, and work hard for it, anything is possible." This encouragement, along with Mae's own curiosity, intelligence, and determination, paved the way for her to become the first African American woman to travel in space.--
17) Red shoes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Malika loves her new red shoes and wears them everywhere, but eventually she outgrows them, and her grandmother takes them to a second-hand shop--where they will become a special present for Amina (who fasted half the month of Ramadan) in Africa, who will enjoy her special red shoes every bit as much as Malika did.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
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Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still plans to attend the parade celebrating her hero Wilma Rudolph's three Olympic gold medals.
19) WCMX daredevil
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IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Davalyn Hart was born with spina bifida, but she is determined not to let that define her, and, being a daredevil, she has taken up the sport of wheelchair motocross; now that she has a brand new, specially designed, wheelchair she is ready to fly--until a bad fall while trying to impress another player shakes her confidence.
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