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1) The batboy
Author
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
It is every baseball kid's dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year-old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols. Baseball was the job his father loved so much, in the end he couldn't leave it. Yet he could leave his family. Now Brian sees the job as the way to win back his father.There is no winning back some people, though. Just ask Hank Bishop once the most popular player...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Physical Desc
564 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Detroit, 1930s. Mary, the American-born daughter of Greek and French immigrants, lives in a tiny apartment with her parents, her brothers, and her twin sister. She questions why her parents ever came to America, while yearning for true love, to own her own business, and to be an independent, modern American woman. Flashbacks to her parents' childhoods connect their stories with Mary's: issues of arranged marriage, learning about independence, and...
Author
Series
(David Andrew),Ballpark mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Mike and Kate visit Detroit, someone is blackmailing the Tigers' famous slugger, Tony Maloney." --
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
5) Love radio
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Prince Jones, a self-professed teen love doctor known for his radio segment on the local hip-hop station, believes he can get the bookish, anti-romance Dani Ford to fall in love with him in three dates.
At seventeen Prince Jones has his own segment on Detroit's popular hip-hop show, Love Radio, dishing out advice to the brokenhearted. He dreams of becoming a DJ and falling in love, but being the main caretaker for his mother, who has multiple sclerosis,...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie--a good life. But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola's mother is detained by U.S. immigration, leaving Fabiola to navigate her loud American cousins, Chantal, Donna, and Princess; the grittiness of Detroit's West Side; a new school; and a surprising romance, all on her own. Just as she finds her footing in this strange new world,...
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In a scheme to reunite with her estranged biological mother, foster kid Jess joins a cosplay team working toward a competition in New York, but along the way she learns the value of the family you choose for yourself.
Bounced between foster homes since the age of seven, Jessica knows better than to set down roots. Most of the kids at her new Michigan high school think shes a witch anyway (because, you know, goth). The only one who gives her the time...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
In 1850 the Detroit River was a major track along the Underground Railroad -- the last step to freedom. The journey across the river was dangerous, especially in winter and especially for a 12-year-old boy. When Louis's father left him in charge of the farm he offered his son this advice, "If you don't know what to do, just do what you think I would have done." Louis relies upon his father's words of wisdom when a runaway slave and her two children...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2017].
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1954, this compelling historical novel tells the story of a young girls struggles and triumphs in the aftermath of World War II. The war is over, but the threat of communism and the Cold War loom over the United States. In Detroit, Michigan, twelve-year-old Marjorie Campbell struggles with the ups and downs of family life, dealing with her veteran fathers unpredictable outbursts, keeping her mothers stash of banned library books a secret,...
10) Detroit
Author
Series
Hoop city volume 2
Publisher
EPIC Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Isaiah is a hot-shot freshman, talented and hardworking enough to be on the varsity basketball team at one of the top private high schools in Detroit. The problem is, his family is breaking apart and he is losing street-cred with his new suburban address. Will Isaiah be able to rise above the taunts--real or imagined--from teammates and opponents? Will he be able to overcome the destruction of his family?" -- Page [4] cover.
11) Caged warrior
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From age three, McCutcheon Daniels, now sixteen, has been trained in Mixed Martial Arts and must keep winning to feed his five-year-old sister and father, but chance presents an opportunity to get out of the Detroit slums using his brain instead of his fighting skills.