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1) Goggles!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Two boys find a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles and, with the help of their dog, elude the bigger boys who try to steal them from them.
2) Roots
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Pub. Date
1976
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 48
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A black American traces his family's origins back to the African who was brought to America as a slave in 1767.
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Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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It was a day when Max didn't feel like talking to anyone. He just sat on his front steps and watched the clouds gather in the sky. A strong breeze shook the tree in front of his house, and Max saw two heavy twigs fall to the ground. So begins this story of a young boy's introduction to the joys of making music. Max picks up the sticks and begins tapping out the rhythms of everything he sees and hears around him-the sound of pigeons startled into flight,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 15
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This collection of essays by scholar-activist W.E.B. Du Bois is a masterpiece in the African American canon. Du Bois, arguably the most influential African American leader of the early twentieth century, offers insightful commentary on black history, racism, and the struggles of black Americans following emancipation. In his groundbreaking work, the author presciently writes that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,"...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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The adventures of Peter, a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than this book. With its universal appeal, the story has become a favorite with millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever. -- Publisher description.
12) Invisible man
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A Vintage book volume 715
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 30
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In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage,...
13) Paradise
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Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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"In 1950, a core group of nine old families leaves the increasingly corrupted African American community of Haven, Oklahoma, to found in that same state a new, purer community they call Ruby. But in the early 1970s, the outside world begins to intrude on Ruby's isolation, forcing a tragic confrontation. It's about this time, too, that the first of five damaged women finds solace in a decrepit former convent near Ruby ... The individual stories of...
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"When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy,...
17) Clover: a novel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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After her father dies, within hours of being married to a white woman, a ten-year-old Clover HIll learns, with her new mother, to overcome grief and to adjust to a new place in their rural black South Carolina community.
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Pub. Date
1995
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"Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America - and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman."
20) Langston Hughes
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Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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An illustrated collection of poems about the racial and social history of American culture.