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(0)Jacqueline Woodson
Author
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. ZJ's mom explains it's because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. ZJ can understand...
Author
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise there...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.
8) Remember us
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It seems like Sage's whole world is on fire the summer before she starts seventh grade. As house after house burns down, her Bushwick neighborhood gets referred to as "The Matchbox" in the local newspaper. And while Sage prefers to spend her time shooting hoops with the guys, she's also still trying to figure out her place inside the circle of girls she's known since childhood. A group that each day, feels further and further away from her. But it's...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"By heeding their wise grandmother's advice, a brother and sister discover the ability to lift themselves up and imagine a better world" -- Provided by publisher.
10) Harbor me
Author
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
Six kids discover the power of sharing their secrets and their stories ... It all starts when six kids are sent to a room for a weekly chat - by themselves, with no adults to listen in. At first they fear this new unfamiliar and wonder...
12) Show way
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
AD 650L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
13) The other side
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Two girls, one white and one black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the fence that divides their town.
14) Feathers
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
118 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
15) Visiting day
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 1150L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages: color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
16) Lena
Author
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lena and her younger sister Dion mourn the death of their mother as they hitchhike from Ohio to Kentucky while running away from their abusive father.
17) Hush
Author
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
AD 790L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A rope passed down through the generations frames an African American family's story as they journey north during the time of the Great Migration.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
153 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.