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1) A mercy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Born to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears, Magnolia Flower is a girl with a vibrant spirit. Not to be deterred by rigid ways of the world, she longs to connect with others, who too long for freedom. She finds this in a young man of letters who her father disapproves of. In her quest to be free, Magnolia must make a choice and set off on a journey that will prove just how brave one can be when leading with one's heart.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Criminal lawyer Jake Brigance faces the fight of his life when he is asked to defend Carl Hailey, who, in a rage of anger, shot and killed the men on trial for the rape of his daughter. Before The Firm and The Pelican Brief made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and justice at last it's available in a Doubleday hardcover edition. In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage...
4) Amara's farm
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Series
Language
English
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Description
There are many plants on Amara's farm. Today is the day she looks for her pumpkins.
Author
Series
Frankie and friends volume 1
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In a charming new chapter-book series by a social-change advocate, young Frankie emulates her journalist mama by reporting on household news with the help of her sister and unlikely news crew"--
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she's not the first-and she may not be the last. . . . It's watching. Liz Rocher is coming home . . . reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn't exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward and passive-aggressive reunions. Liz has grown, though;...
9) Say her name
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Global Girls Squad
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
McKenzie Rivers, the pint-sized daredevil and Lizzie Sanders, who loves all things frilly, aren't afraid of being different. And that's exactly why Princess Lovina of Exquisite City calls upon them to stop the Same Glam Goddess from making all the little girls of the world look the same. With the aid of their magical lovely lockets and fierce diva weaponry, Lizzie and McKenzie will travel the world to find the Seven Crystals of Sisterhood. Their first...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Celeste knows she should be excited to spend two weeks at her grandparents' lake house with her brother, Owen, and their cousins Capri and Daisy, but she's not. Bugs, bad cell reception, and the dark waters of the lake. cemeanks. On top of that, she just failed her swim test and hates being in the water--it's terrifying. But her grandparents are strong believers in their family knowing how to swim, especially having grown up during a time of segregation...
14) Lola gets a cat
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
More than anything Lola would like a cat, but first she must learn how to care for it.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
20) Perfect joy
Author
Series
Carmen Browne volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carmen starts middle school popular with everyone but her best friends, and finding a new friend only makes things worse, then her grades start to slip and a problem arises at home and she realizes the only way she can be happy again is to turn everything over to God.
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