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1) Caprice
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After a wonderful seven weeks at Ainsley International School, twelve-year-old Caprice has been offered a full scholarship and she should be delighted, but instead she is full of doubts because what happened at the last night dance has brought back the memory of being sexually abused by her uncle as a four-year-old; worse, her maternal grandmother is ill, and that means going back to the house in Baltimore where it all happened--Caprice has never...
2) Tyrell
Author
Series
Publisher
PUSH
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.
3) Bronxwood
Author
Series
Publisher
PUSH
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Tyrell's life is spinning out of control after his father is released from prison, his little brother is placed in foster care, and the drug dealers he's living with are pressuring him to start dealing.
4) Kendra
Author
Publisher
PUSH/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
High schooler Kendra longs to live with her mother who, unprepared for motherhood at age fourteen, left Kendra in the care of her grandmother.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and Black in America. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.
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