Jacqueline Woodson
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Language
English
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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Two familes from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier,...
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English
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For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise there...
4) Harbor me
Author
Language
English
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"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
Author
Language
English
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2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations
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Description
ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.--
8) Show way
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
10) The other side
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Two girls, one white and one black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the fence that divides their town.
15) Hush
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.
16) Visiting day
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
17) Feathers
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
19) Our Gracie Aunt
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children/Jump at the Sun
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When a brother and sister are taken to stay with their mother's sister because their mother neglects them, they wonder if they will see their mother again.
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