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1) Ghost boys
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Black Lives Matter: Books to Start a Conversation
Black Lives Matter: Elementary Stories
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Description
"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"--
2) 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.
3) 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
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
Black Lives Matter: Books to Start a Conversation
Books You May Have Missed 2020: Combined
Black Lives Matter: Books to Start a Conversation
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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...
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.
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...
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