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2) Monster
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
4) Dope sick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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.
6) Shooter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
7) Invasion
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry are on their way to an uncertain future. Their whole lives are ahead of them, yet at the same time, death's whisper is everywhere.
One white, one black, these young men have nothing in common and everything in common as they approach an experience that will change them forever.
It's May 1944. World War II is ramping up, and so are these young recruits, ready and eager. In small towns and big cities all over the...
8) Slam!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.
9) Street love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
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.
10) Glory Field
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
This is the story of one family whose history saw slavery at its very rawness. It is a story of pride, determination, struggle and hope. And of the piece of land that holds them together through it all
11) The Mouse rap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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...
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