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Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York Times Bestselling Author of An American Marriage
"A love story . . . Full of perverse wisdom and proud joy . . . Jones's skill for wry understatement never wavers."
-O: The Oprah Magazine
"Silver Sparrow will break your heart before you even know it. Tayari Jones has written a novel filled with characters I'll never forget. This is a book I'll read more than once."
-Judy Blume
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow,...
Author
Series
Promises volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After losing her mother and the abandonment of her father, Promise has two goals: graduate from high school and be loved. Her pursuit of these goals will lead to life-altering events.
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Pregnant after being raped, a young teenager on the streets of North Philadelphia puts her newborn up for adoption and vows to seek revenge, eventually crossing paths with a young FBI agent trying to outrun her shady past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
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Description
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Author
Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trying to discover why a Harlem high school student is being targeted for murder, quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his protégée, Amelia Sachs, look for answers in the student's term paper about her civil rights activist ancestor.
7) Shattered
Author
Series
Bluford series volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Darcy Wills is desperate. A painful secret is ruining her closest friendships at Bluford High School. And an even deeper lie is tearing her family apart. Unwilling to lose the people she loves, Darcy must confront her past and the truth. What she discovers will change her world forever"--Book description.
Continues the story of Darcy Wills as she begins her junior year at Bluford High School. Eager to repair her relationship with her old boyfriend...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She's rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she's a true leading lady is in her own writing--in the swoony love stories she shares only with Caroline, her best friend and #1 devoted reader. When Tessa is accepted into the creative writing program of a prestigious art school, she's excited to finally let her stories...
Author
Publisher
Cartel Publications
Pub. Date
�2009
Language
English
Description
After witnessing the vicious murder of her beloved sister, the infamous "Queen Kat", Nyse, vows to bring demise to the culprit responsible for her slaying. Which is none other than Fatal. Just as Nyse begins to put her plans into motion, she receives yet another slap to the face when she finds out that her family has teamed up with Eliza Gibbs, to take the only person she has left out of her life, her newborn son. Feeling abandoned and alone, Nyse...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the Jim Crow South, white supremacy reigns and tensions are high. But Evalene Deschamps has other things to worry about. She has two little sisters to look after, an overworked single mother, and a longtime crush who is finally making a move. On top of all that, Evvie's magic abilities are growing stronger by the day. Her family calls it jubilation--a gift passed down from generations of black women since the time of slavery. And as Evvie's talents...
Author
Series
Philadelphia story volume 2
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
"Begonia is caught between the hard knocks of the streets and the nightmare of her home life. Forced to become the head of her household, she has to trade her paintbrush in for a switchblade and her love of art into a love affair with the hood. Lying, stealing, and turning tricks, Begonia will do any and everything she can to protect her sisters from the ugliness of the world. However, it just isn't enough... Her younger sister Violet, desperate to...
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Language
English
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Description
"Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black parents. Her best friend, Cherish Whitman, adopted by a wealthy white family, is something Farrah likes to call WGS--White Girl Spoiled. With Brianne and Jerry Whitman as parents, Cherish is given the kind of adoration and coddling that even upper-class Black parents can't seem to afford--and it creates a dissonance in her best friend...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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...
14) Jackal: a novel
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she's not the first-and she may not be the last. . . . It's watching. Liz Rocher is coming home . . . reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn't exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward and passive-aggressive reunions. Liz has grown, though;...
15) Promise kept
Author
Series
Promises volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Asher has maneuvered himself into a position of great importance, but his ambition may cost him his best friend's life. Promise and Asher have each come into their own, but will they ever be able to come together?
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