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Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie."" --
Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A Black French Canadian whose family just moved to Austin, Texas, Norris finds himself cataloging everyone he meets: the Cheerleaders, the Jocks, the Loners, and even the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. He's...
Author
Series
Wildstone novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
"When Maze returns to Wildstone for the wedding of her estranged bff and the sister of her heart, its also a reunion of a once ragtag team of teenagers who had only each other until a tragedy tore them apart and scattered them wide. Now as adults together again in the lake house, there are secrets and resentments mixed up in all the amazing childhood memories. Unexpectedly, they instantly fall back into their roles: Maze their reckless leader, Cat...
3) Mirror girls
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.
"As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were secretly separated after the brutal lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now, at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, Charlie is a young Black...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.
5) Rogue lawyer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse...
Author
Series
Publisher
Steeple Hill
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
This second title in the critically acclaimed Hideaway series tells the inspiring story of a troubled teenager who becomes the catalyst for romance and self-discovery between clinic doctor Karah Lee Fletcher and Ranger Taylor Jackson.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart, a riveting new novel of legal suspense featuring Dismas Hardy and his daughter, Rebecca, now grown up and an associate in Hardys law firm.Late one night, a teenage African American foster child named Tanya Morgan plummets to her death from the overpass above San Franciscos Stockton tunnel. But did she fall...or was she pushed?Rushing to produce a convictable suspect in the glare of the media spotlight,...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo, about Afro-Latina Xiomara Batista who turns to journalling poetry.
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours her frustration onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself...
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