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2) Game
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Follows a family's two hundred forty-one year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.
6) Invasion!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry were friends in Virginia, but now that they are both involved in the Normandy invasion, the differences in their positions is uncomfortable, for Josiah is a white infantryman and Marcus is a black transport driver, the only role the segregated army will allow him.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more. Exhilarating and electric, these poems capture the energy and resilience of a neighborhood and a people.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
During a summer in Harlem, David relies on his mother and a close friend and on an old man he meets in the park to help him come to terms with his father's outbursts and unstable behavior.
10) Lockdown
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen/Amistad
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.
11) Juba!: a novel
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In Five Points, New York, in the 1840s, African American teenager William Henry "Juba" Lane works hard to achieve his dream of becoming a professional dancer but his real break comes when he is invited to perform in England. Based on the life of Master Juba; includes historical note.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Frederick Douglass was a self-educated slave in the South who grew up to become an icon. He was a leader of the abolitionist movement, a celebrated writer, an esteemed speaker, and a social reformer, proving that, as he said, "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
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