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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
3) I rise
Author
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Ayo has to decide whether to take on her mother's activist role when her mom is shot by police. As she tries to find answers, Ayo looks to the wisdom of her ancestors and her Harlem community for guidance"--
Ayo's mother founded the biggest civil rights movement to hit New York City in decades. Its called See Us and it tackles police brutality and racial profiling in Harlem. Ayo has spent her entire life being an activist and now,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Physical Desc
323 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While in Charlestown Prison in the 1940s, young Malcolm Little reads all the books in the library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam, and emerges as Malcolm X.
5) Homeland
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1060L
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Marcus, once called M1k3y, receives a thumbdrive containing evidence of corporate and governmental treachery, his job, fame, family, and well-being, as well as his reform-minded employer's election campaign, are all endangered.
7) These hands
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
An African American man tells his grandson about a time when, despite all the wonderful things his hands could do, they could not touch bread at the Wonder Bread factory. Based on stories of bakery union workers; includes historical note.
8) Equal
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 1959 at the foot of Bakers Mountain in western North Carolina when 13-year-old Jackie Honeycutt first bumps into Thomas Freeman fishing on the riverbank. They hit it off, and Jackie hopes the two of them can be friends. But Jackie is white, and Thomas is Black -- and Jackie quickly learns their growing friendship won't be easy. North Carolina is the focus of the growing civil rights movement, and through his friendship with Thomas,...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Determined to stand up for their rights, eleven-year-old Rufus, a Black boy, and his friends participate in the 1963 civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama.
Rufus Jackson Jones is from Birmingham, the place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the most segregated place in the country. A place that in 1963 is full of civil rights activists including Dr. King. The adults are trying to get more attention to their cause--to show that separate is not...