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1) Gangsta rap
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When teenage Ray and his two friends, Prem and Tyronne, form a successful rap band in the London's East End where they live, they soon find themselves embroiled in increasingly violent gang warfare.
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 6
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this reimagination of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger"--
3) So much
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relatives arriving in succession give in to their desire to squeeze and kiss and play with the baby.
4) Numbers
Author
Series
Numbers volume 1
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Magical metal-worker Joan Sands must navigate court intrigue and escape the fae queen's control as she strives to release her grandfather from royal prisons, grapple with a city plagued by fae attacks, and fulfill her destiny as Ogun's only child to reforge the pact between humanity and the fae.
6) Foreigners
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Caryl Phillips shares the fact-based story of three foreigners-black men attempting to fit into a white world. Francis Barber worked for Dr. Samuel Johnson, and after the good doctor's death he struggles for respect. Randy Turpin beats Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951, but soon falls into debt and despair. David Oluwale is a Nigerian immigrant who is brutally beaten by Leeds police officers in 1969.
7) Leon and Bob
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Leon and his imaginary friend Bob do everything together until a new boy moves in next door.
Author
Series
Bones of ruin volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An African tightrope walker who cannot die gets involved with a mysterious society that's convinced the world is ending and is drafted into the fight-to-the-death Tournament of Freaks, where she learns the terrible truth of who and what she really is"--
Author
Series
Seducing the Sedgwicks volume 2
Publisher
Avon Impulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Once beloved by London's fashionable elite, Hartley Sedgwick has become a recluse after a spate of salacious gossip exposed his most-private secrets. Rarely venturing from the house whose inheritance is a daily reminder of his downfall, he's captivated by the exceedingly handsome man who seeks to rob him. Since retiring from the boxing ring, Sam Fox has made his pub, The Bell, into a haven for those in his Free Black community. But when his best...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Zac never believed his grandfather's tales about their enslaved ancestors being descended from an African king, but when his grandfather is murdered and the villains come after Zac, he sets out for Ghana to find King Baktu's long-lost treasure before the murderers do.
Author
Series
Bones of ruin volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Iris is on a mission to stop herself from becoming the Hiva, a cataclysmic power that can destroy the world.