Jacqueline Woodson
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.