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Kevin R. Free
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no memory of how she got there or where she's from, only a fleeting sense that this isn't the first time she's found herself in similar circumstances. Taken in bya caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She'll go on to become the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Times,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Richard Perry Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving wanted to live out their married life near family in Virginia. However, the state refused to let them--because Richard was white and Mildred was black. After being arrested and charged with a crime, the Lovings were forced to leave their home--until they turned to the legal system. In one of the country's most prominent legal battles, Loving v. Virginia, the Lovings secured their future when the court...
84) Genius: the con
Author
Series
Genius (Leopoldo Gout) volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Three young geniuses from around the globe hatch a plot to trick a vicious warlord, infiltrate a mastermind's organization, protect their families, and save the world.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 18
Description
While greedy drug researchers develop psychotropic drugs to build an army of drugged mercenaries, Aerune mac Audelaine, evil lord of the Unseleighe Sidhe, wants to use these drugs to feed on the suffering of the human world--and only magician/bard Eric Banyon, who has recently relocated to New York City in search of an ordinary life, can stop both plans from becoming reality.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Free Anderson thought the war was over. But his battle to survive is only just beginning. An old nemesis has been shadowing his every step, just waiting to take revenge. And sure enough, before long Free finds himself framed for rustling and about to be hanged. There's only one man who can save him--a former army buddy turned mustanger named Parks Scott. Problem is, no one knows exactly where Scott has gone. The effort to find the free-roaming former...
89) Bronx masquerade
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Appears on list
Description
While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.
Author
Pub. Date
c2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
John wants to be a preacher when he grows up a leader whose words stir hearts to change, minds to think, and bodies to take action. But why wait? When John is put in charge of the family farm's flock of chickens, he discovers that they make a wonderful congregation! So he preaches to his flock, and they listen, content under his watchful care, riveted by the rhythm of his voice. John grew up to be a member of the Freedom Riders, chairman of the Student...
91) How it went down
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
94) For Lamb
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north- if only he could curb...
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