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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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"After finding her brother and saving the entire supernatural world, Amari Peters is convinced her first full summer as a Junior Agent will be a breeze. But between the fearsome new Head Minister's strict anti-magician agenda, fierce Junior Agent rivalries, and her brother Quinton's curse steadily worsening, Amari's plate is full. So when the secretive League of Magicians offers her a chance to stand up for magiciankind as its new leader, she declines....
62) Zora and me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.
63) Kenya's Art
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Kenya's class is on spring vacation and their teacher asked them to write a report about how they spent their time. But vacation is almost over and Kenya hasn't done anything worth noting. A late visit to a museum's recycling exhibit and a walk through her neighborhood with her daddy inspire Kenya to use her old, broken toys and other items to make art with her family. Now she's prepared to teach her whole class how to Recycle! Reuse! Make Art!
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Dream to be from A to Zzz is an alphabet book that depicts a young African-American girl in various professions ranging from A to Z. This book is, intended to encourage children think about how they can use their talents and interests to contribute to the world, while also gaining a greater understanding of professions they may have heard about. Each letter of the alphabet represents a different occupation and the responsibilities of each are, described...
65) Africville
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À quoi ressemblait la communauté? Des maisons aux couleurs vives, logées dans la colline; des champs où les garçons jouaient au football; un étang où les en- fants faisaient du rafting; la pêche en abondance; des immenses feux de joie...La jeune fille sort de sa rêverie; elle visite le parc historique actuel et le cadran solaire où le nom de son arrière-grand mère est gravé dans la pierre, et célèbre un jour d'été...
66) Hope
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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For the young girl in Hope, weekends at her great-aunt Poogee's are the best. Aunt Poogee makes incredible fried chicken, tells great stories, and knows lots of interesting people. But this visit takes an unexpected turn when the pair encounters an ill-mannered friend. It takes Aunt Poogee's special touch to heal a child hurt by words of ignorance and disrespect.
67) Looking Like Me
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When you look in a mirror, who do you see? This jumping, jazzy, joyful picture book by the award-winning team of Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers celebrates every child, and every thing that a child can be.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Fans of Chasing Vermeer will love this clever mystery about art, artifice, and the power of community.
WATCHER. SHADOW. FUGITIVE. Harlem is home to all kinds of kids. Jin sees life passing her by from the window of her family's bodega. Alex wants to help the needy one shelter at a time but can't tell anyone who she really is. Elvin's living on Harlem's cold, lonely streets, surviving on his own after his grandfather was mysteriously attacked.
When...
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Tristan Strong volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
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Author Rick Riordan presents the second book in the New York Times best-selling and award-winning Tristan Strong trilogy by Kwame Mbalia.
Tristan Strong, just back from a victorious but exhausting adventure in Alke, the land of African American folk heroes and African gods, is suffering from PTSD. But there's no rest for the weary when his grandmother is abducted by a mysterious villain out for revenge.
Tristan must return to Alke-and reunite with...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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650L
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Under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, children and teenagers march against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.
1963, Birmingham, Alabama. After hearing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak, thousands of African American children volunteered to march for their civil rights. They protested the laws that kept black people separate from white people. Simple text and emotive illustrations bring to life this historic event, when-- facing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.
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Una niña compra dos conos de helado a un vendedor ambulante de su barrio, uno para ella y otro para su abuelo. Pero, ¿ambas golosinas llegarán a salvo a casa? Este libro ilustrado en español bellamente ilustrado enseña a los lectores principiantes acerca de los actos de bondad. Con ilustraciones vibrantes que apoyan la palabra en español en cada página, los estudiantes de idiomas desarrollarán sus habilidades de lenguaje oral mientras describen...
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A girl buys two ice cream cones from a street vendor in her neighborhood, one for herself and one for her grandfather. But will both treats make it home? Teach early readers about acts of kindness with this beautifully illustrated, multigenerational picture book. By using their own words to describe what is happening in each illustration, children will develop their reading skills. This 12-page beginning reading book is ideal for children ages 3-5....
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Take a walk through Harlem's Sugar Hill and meet all the amazing people, who made this neighborhood legendary. With upbeat rhyming, read-aloud text, Sugar Hill celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African Americans first called home during the 1920s. Children raised in Sugar Hill not only looked up to these achievers but also experienced art and culture at home, at church, and in the community. Books, music lessons, and art classes expanded...
76) The contender
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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A Harlem high school dropout escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing gym, where he learns that being a contender is hard and often discouraging work, but that you don't know anything until you try.
77) One crazy summer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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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.
79) Bayou Magic
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 4
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A magical coming-of-age story from Coretta Scott King honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes, rich with Southern folklore, friendship, family, fireflies and mermaids, plus an environmental twist.
It's city-girl Maddy's first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with her new surroundings - the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water, that only she can see. Could it be a mermaid? As...
It's city-girl Maddy's first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with her new surroundings - the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water, that only she can see. Could it be a mermaid? As...
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