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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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8th grade international human rights
Award: Isinglass Teen Read Winners, 2002-2023
Nominees: Isinglass Teen Book Award, 2022-2023
Novels in Verse - YA
Award: Isinglass Teen Read Winners, 2002-2023
Nominees: Isinglass Teen Book Award, 2022-2023
Novels in Verse - YA
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From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a...
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2024
Award: Coretta Scott King Book Award, recognizing an African-American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children, 2012-2024
New Lyme School YA
Award: Coretta Scott King Book Award, recognizing an African-American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children, 2012-2024
New Lyme School YA
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"A sixteen-year-old girl whose father is the leader of a Black liberation group discovers her own place in the world"--
Warrior Princess. That's what Nigeria's father calls her. He's raised her as part of the Movement, a Black separatist group based in Philadelphia. Nigeria is homeschooled and vegan and participates in traditional rituals that connect her and other kids from the group to their ancestors. But when her mother--the perfect matriarch...
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
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English
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"The People Remember tells the journey of African descendants in America by connecting their history to the seven principles of Kwanzaa. It begins in Africa, where people were taken from their homes and families. They spoke different languages and had different customs. Yet they were bound and chained together and forced onto ships sailing into an unknown future. Ultimately, all these people had to learn one common language and create a culture that...
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Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
NY : [2019]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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In the summer of 1984, twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace of Huntsville, Alabama, visits her father in Harlem, where her fascination with outer space and science fiction interfere with her finding acceptance.
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Marvel
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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When her first mission brings her to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville, Okoye, discovering the truth about a manipulative real-estate mogul, is torn between fulfilling her duty to Wakanda or listening to her own heart and standing up for the people of Brownsville.
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First paperback edition.
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English
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On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie -- a good life. But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola's mother is detained by U.S. immigration, leaving Fabiola to navigate her loud American cousins, Chantal, Donna, and Princess; the grittiness of Detroit's west side; a new school; and a surprising romance, all on her own. Just as she finds her footing in this strange new world,...
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Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood that shaped her into the groundbreaking science-fiction...