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41) Shark teeth
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader Sharkita "Kita" embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help Avery get the recognition she craves, and it will also be a good idea for the school project about the history of her small North Carolina town, where racial tensions are never far from the surface--only it...
Author
Publisher
Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Feminist Press edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Acker navigates her characters' lives with humor, heart, and grace. I loved these stories." --Lisa Ko This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who's never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life's "training school"--with lessons on gentrification and respectability- and fight to create their own...
45) Twins
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Maureen and Francine Carter are twins and best friends. They participate in the same clubs, enjoy the same foods, and are partners on all their school projects. But just before the girls start sixth grade, Francine becomes Fran -- a girl who wants to join the chorus, run for class president, and dress in fashionable outfits that set her apart from Maureen. A girl who seems happy to share only two classes with her sister! Maureen and Francine are...
Author
Publisher
Fortress Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvi, 148 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The stories of girls of color are often overlooked and ignored rather than valued and heard. Instead of relegating these young women to the margins, minister and youth advocate Khristi Lauren Adams brings their stories front and center where they belong. Thought-provoking and inspirational, Parable of the Brown Girl is a powerful example of how God uses the narratives we most often ignore to teach us the most important lessons in life.
Author
Series
Princess Truly (An Acorn Book) volume 5
Publisher
Acorn/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
44 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text super girl Princess Truly goes on a camping trip with little brother Ty and her dog, Sir Noodles; with her super powers she is not afraid of dark caves, bugs, or things that go bump in the night, which is a problem when she develops hiccups, and needs something to scare them away.
Author
Series
Maya and the rising dark volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Maya and the godlings must return to the sinister world of The Dark to retrieve the one thing keeping the veil between the worlds from crumbling: her father's soul.
50) A map to the sun
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One summer day, Ren meets Luna at a beachside basketball court and a friendship is born. But when Luna moves to back to Oahu, Ren's messages to her friend go unanswered. Years go by. Then Luna returns, hoping to rekindle their friendship. Ren is hesitant. She's dealing with a lot, including family troubles, dropping grades, and the newly formed women's basketball team at their high school. With Ren's new friends and Luna all on the basketball team,...
51) Like home
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Chinelo, 'Nelo' as her best friend Kate calls her, is all about her neighborhood Ginger East, but it isn't what it used to be though. After a deadly incident at the local arcade, most of her friends' families moved away. Kate, whose family owns the local corner store, is still there and as long as that stays constant, Nelo's good. When the store is vandalized the police and the media get involved, and more of the outside world descends upon Ginger...
52) Ruby Lee & Me
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a formerly segregated North Carolina town hires its first African-American teacher in 1969, two girls--one black, one white--confront the prejudice that challenges their friendship.
53) Disgruntled
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Novel about a young black girl coming of age in Philadelphia in the late '80s and early '90s"--
54) Smash it!
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Language
English
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Description
Olivia "Liv" James is done with letting her insecurities get the best of her. She's going to smash junior year, and makes a list. A F*ck-It list. She tries out for the school musical, says yes to a date, and starts making new friends. But with change comes a lot of missteps, and being bold means following her heart. What happens when Liv's heart is interested in three different guys-- and two of them are her best friends? What is she supposed to do...
55) Girl dad
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fun read-aloud written in upbeat rhyming verse, Girl Dad is a picture book that honors the strong men who raise, love, and uplift strong girls."--
56) Gone wolf
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Imogen lives outside of Washington DC. The pandemic has distanced her from everyone but her mother and her therapist. Imogen has intense phobias and nightmares of confinement. Her two older brothers used to help her, but now she's on her own, until a college student helps her see the difference between being Blue and sad, and Black and empowered.
Author
Series
Zora and me volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.
Author
Series
Princess Truly (An Acorn Book) volume 7
Publisher
Acorn/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
44 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text, Princess Truly visits the science museum with her brother, solves the mystery of her missing snack, and uses her magic curls to take a trip to outer space with her pug, Sir Noodles.
59) The root worker
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
60) Push
Author
Language
English
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Description
Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" ("Newsday") is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey of transformation and redemption.
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