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1) Bloodmarked
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Series
Legendborn volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 26
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"When the leaders of the Order reveal that they will do everything in their power to keep the approaching demon war a secret, Bree and her friends go on the run so she can learn how to control her devastating new powers"-- Provided by publisher
3) Muted
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"For seventeen-year-old Denver, music is everything. Writing, performing, and her ultimate goal: escaping her very small, very white hometown. So Denver is more than ready on the day she and her best friends Dali and Shak sing their way into the orbit of the biggest R&B star in the world, Sean Mercury Ellis. Merc gives them everything: parties, perks, wild nights -- plus hours and hours in the recording studio. Even the painful sacrifices and the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist, author Tayari Jones unveils a ...story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them...
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Series
Bluford series volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When a frightening ordeal turns her life upside down, Darcy reaches out to her friends for help, but discovers that one of them has an even bigger secret.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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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.
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This is a unique and vividly told novel about a girl named Betsey Brown, an African American seventh-grader growing up in St. Louis, Missouri. While rendering a complete portrait of this girl, author Ntozake Shange also profiles her friends, her family, her home, her school, and her world. This world, though a work of fiction, is based closely and carefully on actual history, specifically on the nationwide school desegregation events of the Civil...
9) Two Rivers
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When a train derails in Two Rivers, railroad worker and single father Harper Montgomery, who is still tormented by grief and his role in a past crime, finds a chance for atonement when he takes in one of the survivors, a pregnant fifteen-year-old girl named Maggie.
10) Nubia: real one
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Nubia has always been a little bit...different. As a baby she showcased Amazonian-like strength by pushing over a tree to rescue her neighbor's cat. But despite her having similar abilities, the world has no problem telling her that she's no Wonder Woman. And even if she were, they wouldn't want her. Every time she comes to the rescue, she's reminded of how people see her: as a threat. Her moms do their best to keep her safe, but Nubia can't deny...
11) Watch us rise
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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"Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends. This year at their NYC high school, they plan to rock the theater and poetry clubs ... until Chelsea realizes the poetry club is more interested in the "classics" than poems that matter, and Jasmine has an experience that is more drama than theater. Sick over the way even their progressive school fails to listen to their voices, they start a new club, one dedicated to writing and creating work that supports women's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
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...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"With the heart-shaped herb thriving, a group of Wakanda's finest engineers working on expanding her dome technology, and the borders more fortified than ever, Princess Shuri can finally focus on what matters most: her training. Soon, a bigger problem rears its head. The princess hears whispers of exceptionally talented young girls across the world going missing. A young environmental scientist in Kenya, a French physics prodigy -- the list of the...
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"Monique is a preacher's daughter who detests the impossible rules of her religion. Everyone expects her to wait until marriage, so she has no one to turn to when she discovers that she physically can't have sex. After two years of trying and failing, her boyfriend breaks up with her. To win him back, Monique teams up with straight-laced church girl Sasha--as well as Reggie, the misunderstood bad boy... While on their quest, Monique discovers the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
18) Jayd's Legacy
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Series
Drama High volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Jayd Jackson, happily in a relationship with the coolest white boy ever, deals with her ex-boyfriend, who is trying to break them up, and her best friend Nellie who is causing all sorts of drama as she runs for junior class homecoming Princess against the Athletes and Cheerleaders.
19) Second Chance
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Series
Drama High volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When Jayd starts dating a half-Jewish white boy, her ex-boyfriend KJ starts trouble, while her enemy Misty and an anti-black teacher make her life miserable, forcing her to rely on Mama's magic to get through another day at Drama High.
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