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1) Promise boys
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2024 - Young Adults
Back to School - Young Adult
Black Authors of Young Adult Books
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Back to School - Young Adult
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Description
J.B., Ramón, and Trey, students of the Urban Promise Prep School, must follow the school's strict rules, but when their principal is murdered, the three boys must band together to track down the real killer before they are arersted.
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Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 20
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Desmond and best friend Andres attend the town's birthday celebration with a petting farm, bumper cars, cotton candy machines, and ghosts, but mostly this Kersville Town Clown Extravaganza is full of creepy clowns of all kinds.
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Rain novels (Comrie) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
In the companion novel to the critically acclaimed Rain Rising, Rain must once again find the strength to rise above. The start of the school year is bringing a lot of changes for Rain: New school. No Circle Group. No Dr. McCalla. No Miss Walia. No step team. And Xander, her older brother and superhero, is away at college. Although everyone else seems okay with change, Rain struggles to open up to her new counselor, her mom, Umi, Alyssa, and even...
5) Paradise
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins Toni Morrison's Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away,...
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Marya Khan volume 3
Language
English
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"Determined to win a trophy at her school's fall festival and outshine her frenemy Alexa, Marya throws herself into selling the most tickets, but as she becomes laser-focused on victory, she begins to lose sight of what truly matters."--
12) Nesting dolls
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"A little girl struggling to find her place within her family is shown how special she is through a set of nesting dolls."--
13) The artivist
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Motivated by the realization of global inequities, a young boy embraces his dual identities as an artist and activist, becoming an "Artivist" to make a difference by using his viral mural as a catalyst for positive change.
15) My name
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"My Name is an inspiring picture book that encourages kids to celebrate themselves and all the things that make them unique, especially their name.
16) Forgive me not
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Set in an alternate version of Queens, N.Y., fifteen-year-old Violetta must participate in the Trials, a series of tests meant to push her to the edge, to atone for her sister's death.
17) The Blackwoods
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Told from multiple points of view, this novel follows Ardith and Hollis Blackwood as their lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.
18) Off the rails
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Series
Mihi ever after volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Mihi and her friends head back to the Rainbow Realm to save Prinncess Pat from a destructive quest.
20) Cornrows
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
As Mama and Great-Grammaw skillfully weave and braid their children's hair into the intricate cornrow patterns of Africa, they retell fascinating tales of ancestral life in Africa and praise contemporary African American activists.
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