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42) Yo! Yes?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two lonely characters, one black and one white, meet on the street and become friends.
44) Monster
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
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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.
45) Ruby: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ephram Jenkins has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby, "the kind of pretty it hurt to look at," is already quite damaged, but Ephram is forcibly drawn to her. As soon as she becomes a young woman and has any power of her own, Ruby flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York City. Years later, when a funeral forces her to return...
Author
Language
English
Description
Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the center: a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life; but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love until she told a lie that ruined the life of an innocent woman, a lie...
48) Bluish: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Dreenie feels both intrigued and frightened when she thinks about the girl nicknamed Bluish, whose leukemia is making her pale and causing her to use a wheelchair.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer"--
50) Looking like me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jeremy sets out to discover all of the different "people" that make him who he is, including brother, son, writer, and runner.
51) Survive the Dome
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A high school junior teams up with a hacker during a police brutality protest to shut down a device that creates an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.
53) A Clean Up Man
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kraig Holmes is a hard-working independent contractor living in Baltimore. He's an average guy-with one exception. A painful secret haunts him daily. Kraig had a one-time sexual experience with a man he knew little about. It propelled him into a lifestyle of promiscuity and an insatiable appetite for dangerous sex. When the guy disappeared into thin air, Kraig was left hurt and devastated.
Now Kraig has developed a taste for the married men who pursue...
57) CurvaLicious
Author
Publisher
Parker Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource (426 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Three stories about real women with curves and figures that make men drool. Kelley Nyrae - Trust Me; Wanda Thomas - Indecent Behavior; Skylar Kade - Lawful Pleasures."--
58) Not His Type
Author
Publisher
Genesis Press, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (266 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Not His Type by Chamein Canton."--
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