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While in Charlestown Prison in the 1940s, young Malcolm Little reads all the books in the library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam, and emerges as Malcolm X.
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Mia's friends love rom-coms, but she hates how silly and unrealistically contrived they are. Besides, her life is dramatic enough with her "bridezilla" sister, Sam, as well as all of her junior year classes and the after school clubs offering distractions. Of course, bridezilla wants Mia to find herself a date for the wedding, forcing her to conspire to create a meet-cute situation with her friends, right out of Mia's hated rom-coms.
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Angel Hill, sixteen, and Isaiah Wilson, seventeen, attend the same African American school in 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma, but don't hang around in the same circles until a job working for a mobile library brings them together. As they collaborate for work, they bond over their knowledge of black civil rights authors and begin a tentative relationship. However, when a white mob attacks their community, the two realize they must put their civil rights theories...
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Seventeen-year-old Maverick "Mav" Carter begins dealing drugs for the King Lords as a way to help support his family while his father is in jail. When he learns that his girlfriend is pregnant, his focus shifts and he tries to make a clean break from drug dealing. However, a loved one's murder makes it difficult to forget his old ties, and he must figure out for himself the meaning of loyalty, manhood, and responsibility.
5) Chlorine sky
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Skyy and her best friend Lay Li have a falling out after a new boyfriend enters Lay Li's life. With an absent mother and no one to help her navigate her uncertain future, Skyy is forced to face a relationship with a new boyfriend alone and discover her self-worth in the process.
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[2020] | MackinVIA | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 1 online resource | English | Available Online
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With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
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2018. | First edition. | Orbit | xii, 400 pages ; 22 cm | English | It's Here
Overton High - Teen Non-Fiction 1 available 808.83 Jem |
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2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Hachette Audio | English | Available Online
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N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful...
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Nightmare-verse volume 1
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In this urban fantasy "Alice in Wonderland" story, Alice is living in Atlanta and juggling real life with an over-protective mom, a best friend, and school with her job as a Dreamwalker, one trained to kill creatures known as Nightmares in the dream realm called Wonderland. Then her mentor is poisoned, and Alice must travel deep into Wonderland--deeper than she's ever gone before--to find the antidote.
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[2020] | MackinVIA | Balzer + Bray | 1 online resource (403 pages) | English | Available Online
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Michael Angeli, a mixed-race gay teen living in London, tells his story in lyrical verse, describing his struggles with self-acceptance and identity as he grows up without a father. When he moves away from home to attend university, he discovers the drag community, where he finally finds acceptance and a new persona as the Black Flamingo.
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[2020] | MackinVIA | Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company | 1 online resource (294 pages) | English | Available Online
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A black teenager named Echo believes she is a wizard and uses her magical abilities to cope and rise up out of her crime-infested and poverty-stricken east Cleveland neighborhood, and reach beyond her dysfunctional family's drug addiction. She meets wise female wizards along the way who teach her to use magic and uses a portal that transports her to a rich, mostly white school on the west side of town where she meets Elena, a Muslim teen whom she...
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Collects seventeen stories that detail what it's like to be young and black in a diverse America. "In these stories, black kids are nerds and geeks, gay and lesbian, first-gen and immigrants, outdoorsy and artists, conflicted and confused, grieving and succeeding, thriving and surviving--in short, they're fully human."
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2018. | First edition. | Tom Doherty Associates | 111 pages ; 21 cm | English | It's Here
Overton High - Teen Fiction 1 available QR F Cla |
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In an alternate New Orleans caught in the tangle of the American Civil War, the wall-scaling girl named Creeper yearns to escape the streets for the air-in particular, by earning a spot on-board the airship Midnight Robber. Creeper plans to earn Captain Ann-Marie's trust with information she discovers about a Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls The Black God's Drums. But Creeper also has a secret herself: Oya, the African orisha of...
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2016. | Knopf | 305 pages ; 24 cm. | English | It's Here
Overton High - Teen Fiction 1 available F GYA |
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Penguin Random House Audio Pub | 11 sound discs (13 hr., 11 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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6 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
6 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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2016 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2016 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (approximately 13 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available at another branch
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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
14) Long way down
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[2017] | MackinVIA | Atheneum | 1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations | English | Available Online
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As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.
15) The red pencil
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Twelve-year-old Amira, a resident of a Sudanese refugee camp following the murder of her parents in a Janjaweed attack, finds hope in the gift of a simple red pencil that allows her to express her creativity and formulate her hopes for the future.
16) The hate u give
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[2017] | MackinVIA | Balzer + Bray | 1 online resource (444 pages) | English | Available Online
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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter is trying to balance her suburban prep school life with the poor, black neighborhood where she lives when she witnesses her childhood best friend Khalil get shot and killed by a police officer. As tensions mount and her city erupts in protests, the only person who knows the truth of that night is Starr, and what she does or doesn't say can change everyone's lives forever.
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Overton High - Teen Fiction 1 available F MAG | |
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In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
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Cora, a slave on a cotton plantation and an outcast among her fellow Africans, escapes her bondage in pursuit of freedom via the Underground Railroad alongside a fellow slave named Caesar. But the two are ferociously hunted after Cora kills a white boy who tries to capture her, and Cora runs from state to state, in a relentless fight for freedom.
19) Akata warrior
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Akata series volume 2
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Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2017. | Viking | 477 pages ; 22 cm | English | It's Here
Overton High - Teen Fiction 1 available F Oko |
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Available Online
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2017 | OverDrive | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Available Online
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2017 | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Available Online
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Now stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny Nwazue, along with her friends from the the Leopard Society, travel through worlds, both visible and invisible, to the mysterious town of Osisi, where they fight in a climactic battle to save humanity.
20) Kindred
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1979 | 1st ed. | Doubleday | It's Here
Overton High - Teen Fiction 1 available F BUT | |
[2009?] | Beacon Press | Available at another branch
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1998 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Available Online
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Checked Out
5 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2004 | OverDrive | Beacon Press | English | Checked Out
5 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Checked Out
5 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2004 | Beacon Press | English | Checked Out
5 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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p1998 | Recorded Books | 1 sound media player (11 hr.) : digital ; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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Dana, a black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor.