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2) Seed magic
Author
Series
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rose takes a gift from the crazy old Birdman and discovers that even in the bleak, gray city there are ways to make a beautiful garden.
3) Bang!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A teenage boy must face the harsh realities of inner city life, a disintegrating family, and destructive temptations as he struggles to find his identity as a young man.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Few words are as ideologically charged as "ghetto." It was initially synonymous with two cities: Venice, where the word was first used in conjunction with the segregation of the Jews in 1516, and Rome, where the ghetto survived as a compulsory institution until the fall of the Papal States in 1870, long after it had ceased to exist elsewhere. Ghetto: The History of a Word offers a fascinating account of the changing nuances of this slippery word,...
5) Money hungry
Author
Series
Raspberry Hill novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again.
6) House arrest
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Chanel is living the high life until one day, while out shopping with her boyfriend DeAndre, they're both arrested. As Chanel finds herself behind bars for a crime she didn't commit, a judge places her under HOUSE ARREST. With nowhere to go, she is forced to move back in with her mother and daughter, who live on the ghetto side of town. DeAndre makes her a proposition from jail that will have her torn between her two lifestyles.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl, only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Now Amanda is sixteen and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing....
9) If I grow up
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the inner-city projects, DeShawn is reluctantly forced into the gang world by circumstances beyond his control.
Author
Series
Thug novels volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Trying to survive the 'hood, friends Angel, Jaz, and Kyra find themselves unable to leave the lying, cheating, vicious, drug-dealing men that they love, becoming trapped in a world of jealousy, turf wars, revenge, sex, and violence.
Angel, Jaz, and Kyra are all leading double lives, torn between working hard to leave the ghetto behind--and being dragged back in by the lying, pimping, drug-dealing men they can't seem to let go. From jealous rampages...
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Raspberry Hill tries to sort out her confused feelings of disgust, shame, and love for her homeless, drug addicted father and worries that she may have inherited his lying and stealing ways.
13) Burned: a novel
Author
Series
Henning Juul series volume 1
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Traumatized and scarred by the fire that killed his son, Oslo crime reporter Henning Juul investigates the brutal murder of a local woman and becomes convinced that the case's chief suspect, a Pakistani native, is innocent.
14) Dangerous minds
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A former U.S. Marine and first-time teacher finds that conventional methods don't work with her tough inner-city students, so she breaks the rules to create her own curriculum.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the...
17) Tight
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Tight: Lately, Bryan's been feeling it in all kinds of ways . . . Bryan knows what's tight for him--reading comics, drawing superheroes, and hanging out with no drama. But drama is every day where he's from, and that gets him tight, wound up. And now Bryan's friend Mike pressures him with ideas of fun that are crazy risky. At first, it's a rush following Mike, hopping turnstiles, subway surfing, and getting into all kinds of trouble. But Bryan never...
18) Hoop dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 289
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This documentary follows two inner-city basketball phenoms' lives through high school as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A memoir of growing up in the tough world of Baltimore in the 1980s chronicles the relationship between the author and his father, a Vietnam vet and Black Panther affiliate, and his campaign to keep his sons from falling victim to the temptations of the streets.
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