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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
At Niveus Private Academy, Devon and Chiamaka are the only students chosen to be Senior Prefects who are also black, which makes them targets for a series of anonymous texts revealing their secrets to the entire student body. Both students were on track toward valedictorian and bright college futures, but this prank quickly turns into a very dangerous game and they are at more than one disadvantage as it looks like things could turn deadly.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
When you look like us-brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades-everyone else thinks you're trouble. No one even blinks twice over a missing black girl from public housing because she must've brought whatever happened to her upon herself. I, Jay Murphy, can admit that, for a minute, I thought my sister Nicole just got caught up with her boyfriend-a drug dealer-and his friends. But she's been gone too long. Nic, where are you? If I hadn't hung...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. She goes with the flow--which is how she ends up singing in her friends' punk band as a favor, even though she'd prefer to hide at the merch table. Reggie is a D&D Dungeon Master and self-declared Blerd. He spends his free time leading quests and writing essays critiquing the game under a pseudonym, keeping it all under wraps from his disapproving family....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Mary, a teenager living in a group home, becomes pregnant, authorities take another look at the crime for which Mary was convicted when she was nine years old.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
While on a post-graduation Mediterranean cruise with her family, Lenore Bennett meets a hopeless romantic with a ten-year plan who helps her find something she's been looking for--love.
A star artist and style icon at her high school, Lenore Bennett is a master in the subtle art of not giving a... well, you know what. But now that graduation is here, she's a little less sure. Heading to NYU in the fall with a scarlet U (for "undeclared") written...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Losing her mom to cancer left her traumatized; now Tiffany Sly is living Chicago to live with the biological dad she's never known. Anthony Stone is a rich man with four other daughters-- and rules for every second of the day. Tiffany doesn't fit into her new luxurious, but super-strict, home-- or get along with her half-sister London. The only thing that makes her new life even remotely bearable is Marcus McKinney, who has had his own experiences...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"18-year-old Opal is a young Black woman working as a housekeeper in a small Southern town in the 1930s--and then the Klan descends. A moving story that confronts America's tragic past, When Stars Rain Down is both heartwarming and heart-wrenching. This summer has the potential to change everything. The summer of 1936 in Parsons, Georgia, is unseasonably hot, and Opal Pruitt senses a nameless storm brewing. She hopes this foreboding feeling won't...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Her sights are set on securing passage aboard Captain Ann-Marie's smuggler airship Midnight Robber, earning the captain's trust using a secret about a kidnapped Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls the Black God's Drums. But Creeper keeps another secret close to her heart-- Oya, the African orisha of the wind and storms, who speaks inside her head and grants...
10) Spin
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When DJ ParSec (Paris Secord), rising star of the local music scene, is found dead over her turntables, the two girls who found her, Kya (her pre-fame best friend) and Fuse (her current chief groupie) are torn between grief for Paris and hatred for each other--but when the lack of obvious suspects stalls the investigation, and the police seem to lose interest, despite pressure from social media and ParSec's loyal fans, the two girls unite, determined...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Quinn's journal is where she writes down everything -- in list format -- that she doesn't want to admit out loud, or even face; once they're written, she can release them and feel a little bit more at peace. When the journal goes missing and her list of biggest fears is posted online with a challenge to face each of them or else have the entire journal go public, it's time for Quinn to move out of the realm of her mind and into real life. She's not...
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Monique is a preacher's daughter who detests the impossible rules of her religion. Everyone expects her to wait until marriage, so she has no one to turn to when she discovers that she physically can't have sex. After two years of trying and failing, her boyfriend breaks up with her. To win him back, Monique teams up with straight-laced church girl Sasha--who is surprisingly knowledgeable about Monique's condition--as well as Reggie, the misunderstood...
13) Anger is a gift
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Six years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near crippling panic attacks. Now, in his sophomore year of high school, Moss and his fellow classmates find themselves increasingly treated like criminals in their own school. New rules. Random locker searches. Constant intimidation and Oakland Police Department...
Author
Series
Song below water volume 1
Publisher
TOR Teen
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In a society determined to keep her under lock and key, Tavia must hide her siren powers. Meanwhile, Effie is fighting her own family struggles, pitted against literal demons from her past. Together, these best friends must navigate through the perils of high school's junior year. But, everything changes in the aftermath of a siren murder trial that rocks the nation, and Tavia accidentally lets out her magical voice at the worst possible moment. Soon,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Novah feels like her life has been put on hold, taking care of her four younger siblings while her older sister Ariana gets to play volleyball and hang out--but when their parents are killed in a car crash Ariana and Novah will have to learn to cooperate.
16) Legendborn
Author
Series
Legendborn volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"After not being able to have a sweet sixteen party, Mahalia decides to throw a coming out party to celebrate love and herself"--
Mahalia Harris wants a big Sweet Sixteen like her best friend Naomi. She wants the cute new girl Siobhan to like her back. She wants a break from worrying about money, snide remarks from white classmates, and pitying looks from church ladies. It's too late for a Sweet Sixteen-- but what about a Coming Out Party? A singing,...
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A collection of short stories explore what it is like to be young and black, centering on the experiences of black teenagers and emphasizing that one person's experiences, reality, and personal identity are different than someone else.
19) Promise: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"New England, 1957. The Kindred sisters-Ezra and Cinthy-grew up with an abundance of love. Love from their parents, who let them believe that the stories they tell on stars can come true. Love from their neighbors, the Junketts, the only other Black family in town, whose home is filled with spice-rubbed ribs and ground-shaking hugs. And love for their adopted hometown of Salt Point, a beautiful village perched high up on coastal bluffs. But as the...
20) The hate u give
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she's forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of Khalil?
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