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2) Money hungry
Author
Series
Raspberry Hill novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again.
3) Junebug
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
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Description
An inquisitive young boy who lives with his mother and younger sister in a rough housing project in New Haven, Connecticut, approaches his tenth birthday with a mixture of anticipation and worry.
4) Team seven
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"A teen basketball player's promising career threatens to be derailed by the drugs and violence in his seedy neighborhood"--
5) Tight
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Back to School, More Titles - Tween
Black History Month - Tweens
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Black History Month - Tweens
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Description
After his quick-tempered father gets in a fight and is sent back to jail, sixth-grader Bryan, known for being quiet and thoughtful, snaps and follows new friend Mike into trouble.
Author
Series
Raspberry Hill novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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Description
Teenaged Raspberry Hill tries to sort out her confused feelings of disgust, shame, and love for her homeless, drug addicted father and worries that she may have inherited his lying and stealing ways.
7) Chess rumble
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Branded a troublemaker due to his anger over everything from being bullied to his sister's death a year before, Marcus begins to control himself and cope with his problems at home and at his inner-city school when an unlikely mentor teaches him to play chess.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Follows the efforts of four young women struggling to escape the limitations of the Atlanta housing projects, from Aisha, whose fashionable life is abruptly halted by her husband's imprisonment, to Molly, whose low self-esteem blinds her to her husband's infidelity.
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