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61) Show way
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
62) Root magic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1963 in South Carolina, eleven-year-old twins Jez and Jay Turner begin lessons in rootwork, and their uncle's training offers them healing, protection, and a connection to their heritage even as they face threats from the local police deputy, school bullies, and others.
64) My camp-out
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young girl camps out in her bedroom and is joined by her mother.
65) Dread nation
Author
Series
Dread nation volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania-- derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. Now laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In her second year at Arcanum Training Institute, Ella grapples with fame, unearths a perilous school secret, and faces a mysterious magical illness outbreak, prompting her, alongside Brigit and Jason, to clear her name, while working tirelessly to safeguard the Marvellian realm from impending chaos.
67) Swing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Noah and his best friend Walt want to become cool, make the baseball team, and win over Sam, the girl Noah has loved for years. When Noah finds old love letters, Walt hatches a plan to woo Sam. But as Noah's love life and Walt's baseball career begin, the letters alter everything"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1959 Virginia, Sarah, a black student who is one of the first to attend a newly integrated school, forces Linda, a white integration opponent's daughter, to confront harsh truths when they work together on a school project.
69) Angel City
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
An old black man finds a baby abandoned in a dumpster and raises him in a rough Los Angeles neighborhood to know both African American and Mexican American ways.
70) Sun keep rising
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At risk of losing her home, teen mom B'onca forges a risky plan to help pay the bills that, if she makes one wrong move, could cost her and her family everything.
71) Chains
Author
Series
Seeds of America trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
316 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
72) Brown sugar baby
Author
Publisher
Cottage Door Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"... a celebration of the powerful love and protective, comforting instincts of a mother for her child"--
73) Most perfect you
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A little girl learns to love each part of herself, from her spectacular hair to her big heart.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1994.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
61 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the Civil War ends, Addy desperately hopes that her family will be reunited in freedom in Philadelphia, but the future may hold both happiness and heartache.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1993.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
65 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Addy and her mother forgo their Christmas plans to help the newly freed slaves arriving in Philadelphia during the Civil War.
76) Lu
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Lu knows he can lead Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and the team to victory at the championships, but it might not be as easy as it seems. Suddenly, there are hurdles in Lu's way--literally and not-so-literally--and Lu needs to figure out, fast, what winning the gold really means"--
77) On the come up
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time-- and has massive shoes to fill. She's been labeled a hoodlum at school, and the fridge at home is empty after her mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral -- for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed by the media as a menace, Bri makes a choice-- and becomes the...
78) Yellow Dog blues
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Traveling across the Mississippi Delta, Bo Willie searches blues landmarks like Dockery Farms and Beale Street for his missing dog.--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression.
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