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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
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“[A] suspense-filled page-turner about murder, repentance, and forgiveness.” Viet Thanh Nguyen. “A marvel.” Michael Connelly. "A touching portrait of two families bound together by a split-second decision.” Attica Locke. In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as its been since the unrest of the early 1990s. But Grace Park and Shawn Matthews have their own problems. Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious,...
3) Alone
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English
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Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man’s finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react . . . and forever pay the consequences.
Alone . . . that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful,...
Alone . . . that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful,...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Best Fiction - 2021
Fiction by Black Authors
Good Morning America Book Club
Great Fiction Audiobooks of 2021
Fiction by Black Authors
Good Morning America Book Club
Great Fiction Audiobooks of 2021
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"Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event-a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives. Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions....
5) Dragon tears
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English
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Harry Lyon was a rational man, a cop who refused to let his job harden his soul. Then one fateful day, he was forced to shoot a man—and a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes uttered the haunting words that challenged Harry Lyon's sanity:"Ticktock, ticktock. You'll be dead in sixteen hours...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn..."
7) Shot clock
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Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Former NBA All-Star Caron Butler and acclaimed author Justin A. Reynolds tip off the first book in a new middle grade series about a young boy trying to make his mark on an AAU basketball team coached by a former NBA star in his hometown. Perfect for fans of The Crossover and the Track series. *A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! Tony loves basketball. But the game changed recently when his best friend, Dante, a hoops phenom, was killed...
8) Ghost boys
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
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Series
Blackwater Falls volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In Blackwater Falls, Colorado, veteran police officer Harry Cooper is hot on the heels of some local vandals when the situation turns deadly: believing one of them has a gun, Harry opens fire and Duante Reed, a young Black man, is killed. The "gun" in his hands was a bottle of spray paint. Meanwhile, in nearby Denver, a drug raid goes south and a Latino teen, Mateo Ruiz, is also killed. Detective Inaya Rahman is all too familiar with the name of...
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"A reported home invasion in an upscale New York community forces Detective Jimmy Vega into a life-or-death decision. A Hispanic man who fits the description of the armed intruder is fleeing the scene. When he refuses to surrender and reaches into his pocket Vega has just seconds to act. Soon, a tragic mistake takes an even darker turn when Vega uncovers links between the dead man and his own mothers unsolved murder.Vegas need for answers propels...
11) Light it up
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators.
12) 4th of July
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A young girl is killed in crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. In a landmark trial that transfixes the nation, Lindsay fights to save her career and her sanity. While awaiting trial, Lindsay escapes to the beautiful town of Half Moon Bay, but the peaceful community there is reeling from a string of unspeakable murders. Working with her friends in the...
13) The hate u give
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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A girl from a poor black neighborhood attending a rich mostly white prep school witnesses her childhood friend being killed by a police officer and faces a difficult dilemma.
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Beau Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she’s grown up in. But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister’s name by finding the only witness to the murder; Katia’s no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing. If she doesn't find him and tell the world what really happened, Katia's death will be ignored, like the...
15) Enemy within
Author
Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 13
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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Language
English
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Legendary African American activist-comedian D. L. Hughley uses satire to draw attention to white privilege and racial injustice, sardonically offering an illustrated how-to guide for black people, full of insight from white people, about how to act, dress, speak, walk, and drive in the safest manner possible.
17) Fire on the levee: the murder of Henry Glover and the search for justice after Hurricane Katrina
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his struggle to unravel the cover-up of a police shooting, and subsequent incineration of the shooting victim, in Hurricane Katrina–era New Orleans. In 2009, Jared Fishman was a young prosecutor working on low-level civil rights cases in the Justice Department when a file landed on his desk. That folder contained two items: a story from The Nation magazine examining...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A behind-the-scenes account of the #blacklivesmatter movement shares insights into the young men and women behind it, citing the racially charged controversies that have motivated members and the economic, political, and personal histories that inform its purpose.
20) Magnum force
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010-]
Language
English
Description
Harry Callahan finds himself fighting against a squad of vigilante cops.
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