Jewell Parker Rhodes
1) Ghost boys
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Zane is itching for an adventure that will take him away from his family's boarding house in Rockaway, Queens. So when he is entrusted with a real treasure map, leading to a spot somewhere in Manhattan, Zane wastes no time in riding the ferry over to the city to start the search with his friends Kiko and Jack and his dog, Hip-Hop. Through strange coincidence, they meet a man who is eager to help them find the treasure: John, a sailor who knows all...
5) Sugar
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly, the woman screams, the man runs out, and the chase to capture and lynch him begins. When Joe, a young man trying to be the next Houdini, is accused of rape, he must perform his greatest escape by eluding a bloodthirsty lynch mob. And Mary, the motherless daughter of a farmer who tries to marry her off to the farmhand who viciously raped her, must find the courage...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
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Books You May Have Missed 2020: Combined
Description
Suspended unjustly from elite Middlefield Prep, Donte Ellison studies fencing with a former champion, hoping to put the racist fencing team captain in his place.
8) Soul step
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Follow one girl's journey to discover the joy and history of step dancing- an ode to sisterhood and a strong mother-daughter bond"-- Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
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Description
Jerome, de doce años, es la más reciente víctima, asesinada por un policía blanco que confunde su pistola de juguete con una amenaza. Como fantasma, él observa la devastación que se ha desatado en su familia y comunidad a raíz de lo que ven como un asesinato injusto y brutal. Una vez más, Jewell Parker Rhodes entrelaza hábilmente capas históricas y sociopolíticas en una historia apasionante y conmovedora sobre cómo los niños y las familias...
11) Paradise on fire
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Bronx middle-grader Addy, who struggles with a family tragedy by drawing maps and studying mazes, joins other city youngsters on a wilderness adventure in California that turns deadly when wildfires erupt.
12) Bayou magic
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Visiting her grandmother in the Louisiana bayou, ten-year-old Maddy begins to realize that she may be the only sibling to carry on the gift of her family's magical legacy.
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