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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
"Queer black girls team up to overthrow the patriarchy in the former kingdom of Cinderella"--
Two hundred years after Cinderella found her prince, the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl's display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again. Sophia would much rather marry Erin, her childhood best friend,...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape"--
They only wanted to make some money during the dry season to help their impoverished family; instead they were tricked into forced labor on a plantation in the Ivory Coast. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods Amadou and his younger...
Author
Series
Blood like magic volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
After failing to come into her powers, sixteen-year-old Voya--a Black witch living in near-future Toronto--is forced to choose between losing her family's magic forever, a heritage steeped in centuries of blood and survival, or murdering her first love, a boy who is supposedly her genetic match.
Author
Series
War girls volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Living a comfortable life in the Space Colonies, Ify, now nineteen and a medical administrator, must return to wartorn Nigeria, where she last saw her sister, to investigate why young refugees from that nation are carrying a deadly virus.
2181. It's been five years since the Biafran War ended. Ify is living a comfortable life in the Space Colonies as a medical administrator. Back in Nigeria, Uzo, a young synth, helps an aid worker, Xifeng, restore...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Audre and Mabel, both young women of color from different backgrounds, fall in love and figure out how to care for each other as one of them faces a fatal illness." --
Trinidad. Audre is being sent to live in America with her father because her strictly religious mother caught her with her secret girlfriend, the pastor's daughter. Her grandmother Queenie tries to reassure her granddaughter that she won't lose...
6) Hot comb
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women's lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story 'Hot Comb' is about a young girl's first perm--a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming 'too white' in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In 'Virgin Hair', taunts of 'tender-headed' sting as much as the perm itself. It's...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"All too many kids of color get 'the talk.' The talk about where to keep their hands, how to wear their clothes, how to speak, how to act around police-an honest talk, a talk about survival in a racist world. The get "the talk" because they must. But white kids don't get this talk. Instead, they're barely spoken to about race at all-and that needs to change. The Other Talk begins this much-needed conversation for white kids. In an accessible, anecdotal,...
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In response to recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, National Book Award-winning writer Jesmyn Ward looked to James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time for comfort and counsel. In the essay 'My dungeon shook,' Baldwin addresses his fifteen-year-old namesake on the one hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. He writes: 'You know, and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years...
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