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Benji, one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, tries desperately to fit in, but every summer, he and his brother, Reggie, escape to the East End of Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals has built a world of its own.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Tow-Kaye just learned that the love of his life is pregnant--and though he knows what the right thing to do is, he's scared to death to do it. Jeffrey hates having a mom who dresses like a teenager, but when another sexy mom moves in next door--well, that's a different kind of problem. In these and twenty-two other short stories and poems, readers plumb the inner lives of African American teenage boys.
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Pittsburgh, 1998: Chris "Crest" Tolbert is eighteen years old, a soon-to-be father, and partially paralyzed after a devastating accident that left his best friend dead. In Everyday People, acclaimed novelist Stewart O'Nan offers a multifaceted portrait of Crest and of East Liberty, the African American neighborhood he calls home. As he deals with the challenges of new fatherhood and life as a paraplegic, Crest must also negotiate his relationships...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till is "A moving elegy," says The Bulletin.
In 1955 people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral held by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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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...
6) Boys To Men?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 150 min.)
Language
English
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In this moving follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Hoop Dreams, award-winning filmmaker Frederick Marx continues his exploration of the lives of ordinary young men and the extraordinary challenges they face. Boys to Men? - the second in a proposed trilogy about masculinity in America - trains its focus on the pressures and expectations faced by a diverse group of young urban males. This program consists of four films. Are You Listening? features...
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English
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"A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long. Wright Thompson's family farm in Mississippi is 23 miles from the site of one of the most notorious and consequential killings in American history, yet he had to leave the state for college before he learned the first thing about...
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A Shout Mouse Press Production in collaboration with Shootback and Beacon House
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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HL 600L
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xxv, 199 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
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English
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Tajon is sixteen and black. He's tall and skinny, and he has dreadlocks. Tajon works hard and tries his best to be good. He does O.K. in school. He has plans. He's determined. Tajon is the kind of son who cares about his family. He's the kind of brother who stands up for his sister. He's the kind of kid who dreams big dreams to get himself and those he loves up and out of the hood. Tajon is the one who got shot.
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Publisher
Editorial Planeta
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
249 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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Español
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"A Jordan Banks, que empieza este curso en un nuevo colegio, le encanta dibujar cómics acerca de su vida. No obstante, sus padres, en vez de cumplir su sueño y enviarlo a una escuela de Bellas Artes, deciden llevarlo a un prestigioso colegio privado destacado por su calidad educativa, donde resulta que Jordan es uno de los pocos chicos afroamericanos. Durante los viajes diarios desde el apartamento de Washington Heights en el que vive a la exclusiva...
11) Quincredible
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Series
Quincredible volume 1
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
volumes (unpaginated) : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Invulnerability is a pretty useless superpower if you've only got a one-hundred-pound frame to back it up. That's what Quinton West's life became when he went from a small guy who got beat up to a small guy who can't get hurt after the meteor shower dubbed “The Event” gifted him the power of invulnerability but no other powers to compliment it. But there's more to Quin than meets the eye, and Quin realizes that he can use his quirky hobby of...
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