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(0)Jacqueline Woodson
Author
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. ZJ's mom explains it's because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. ZJ can understand...
Author
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.
5) Show way
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
AD 650L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
6) Harbor me
Author
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
Six kids discover the power of sharing their secrets and their stories ... It all starts when six kids are sent to a room for a weekly chat - by themselves, with no adults to listen in. At first they fear this new unfamiliar and wonder...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"By heeding their wise grandmother's advice, a brother and sister discover the ability to lift themselves up and imagine a better world" -- Provided by publisher.
8) Hush
Author
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
AD 790L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A rope passed down through the generations frames an African American family's story as they journey north during the time of the Great Migration.
10) Lena
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
115 pages ; 22cm
Language
English
Description
Lena and her younger sister Dion feel they have no other choice but to leave their home and take to the open road. Their mother is dead, and their father has done terrible things to the girls. They know from experience that if they're put into foster homes, they will be separated. And all they really have is each other. So the girls head out, with only a vague plan of finding their mama's people. Life on the road is full of danger, but Lena knows...
11) Feathers
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
118 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
134 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
153 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
16) Pecan pie baby
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Mama's pregnancy draws attention away from Gia, she worries that the special bond they share will disappear forever once the baby is born.
17) Visiting day
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 1150L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages: color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
