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Columbia Pike - Kids Fiction
JF REYNO
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JF REYNO
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Shirlington - Kids Fiction
JF REYNO
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JF REYNO
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"When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires--literally"--
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Central - Kids Fiction
JF SHABA
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JF SHABA
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Shirlington - Kids Fiction
JF SHABA
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JF SHABA
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Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
3) Blended
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Eleven-year-old Isabella's parents are divorced, so she has to switch lives every week: One week she's Isabella with her dad, his girlfriend Anastasia, and her son Darren living in a fancy house where they are one of the only black families in the neighborhood. The next week she's Izzy with her mom and her boyfriend John-Mark in a small, not-so-fancy house that she loves. Because of this, Isabella has always felt pulled between two worlds. And now...
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Central - Kids Nonfiction
J 811 WOODS
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J 811 WOODS
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Shirlington - Kids Nonfiction
J 811 WOODS
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J 811 WOODS
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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...
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Cherrydale - Kids Fiction
JF STONE
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JF STONE
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Shirlington - Kids Fiction
JF STONE
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JF STONE
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Westover - Kids Fiction
JF STONE
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JF STONE
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"For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. But adventure quickly turns...
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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
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Central - Kids Fiction
JF ALEXA
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JF ALEXA
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Westover - Recently Returned
JF ALEXA
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JF ALEXA
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Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
7) Dough boys
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Deontae "Simp" Wright has big plans for his future. Plans that involve basketball, his best friend, Rollie, and making enough money to get his mom and four younger brothers out of the Cove, their low-income housing project. Long term, this means the NBA. Short term, it means being a dough boy-getting paid to play lookout and eventually moving up the rungs of the neighborhood drug operation with Rollie as his partner. Roland "Rollie" Matthews used...
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Dragons in a bag volume 1
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Aurora Hills - Kids Fiction
JF ELLIO
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JF ELLIO
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Courthouse - Kids Fiction
JF ELLIO
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JF ELLIO
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In Brooklyn, nine-year-old Jax joins Ma, a curmudgeonly witch who lives in his building, on a quest to deliver three baby dragons to a magical world, and along the way discovers his true calling.
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Finding Langston volume 1
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Central - Kids Fiction
JF CLINE
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JF CLINE
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Shirlington - Kids Fiction
JF CLINE
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JF CLINE
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Westover - Kids Fiction
JF CLINE
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JF CLINE
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Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
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Central - Kids Fiction
JF LOCKI
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JF LOCKI
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Glencarlyn - Kids Fiction
JF LOCKI
1 available
JF LOCKI
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Shirlington - Kids Fiction
JF LOCKI
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JF LOCKI
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Eleven-year-old Makeda dreams of meeting her African American mother, while coping with serious problems in her white adopted family, a cross-country move, and being homeschooled.
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Central - Kids Fiction
JF BROWN
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JF BROWN
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Cherrydale - Kids Fiction
JF BROWN
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JF BROWN
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On a cold winter night, Iris and her best friend, Daniel, sneak into a clearing in the woods to play in the freshly fallen snow. There, Iris carefully makes a perfect snow angel -- only to find the crumbling gravestone of a young girl, Avery Moore, right beneath her. Immediately, strange things start to happen to Iris: She begins having vivid nightmares. She wakes up to find her bedroom window wide open, letting in the snow. She thinks she sees the...
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Zoe Washington stories volume 1
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Aurora Hills - Kids Fiction
JF MARKS
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JF MARKS
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Shirlington - Kids Fiction
JF MARKS
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JF MARKS
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Zoe Washington isn't sure what to write. What does a girl say to the father she's never met, hadn't heard from until his letter arrived on her twelfth birthday, and who's been in prison for a terrible crime? A crime he says he never committed. Could Marcus really be innocent? Zoe is determined to uncover the truth. Even if it means hiding his letters and her investigation from the rest of her family. Everyone else thinks Zoe's worrying about doing...
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Central - Kids Fiction
JF WILLI
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JF WILLI
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Columbia Pike - Kids Fiction
JF WILLI
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JF WILLI
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There are ninety-six things Genesis hates about herself. She knows the exact number because she keeps a list. Like #95: Because her skin is so dark, people call her charcoal and eggplant-even her own family. And #61: Because her family is always being put out of their house, belongings laid out on the sidewalk for the world to see. When your dad is a gambling addict and loses the rent money every month, eviction is a regular occurrence. What's not...
14) ghetto cowboy
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15) Ghost boys
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Central - Kids Fiction
JF RHODE
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JF RHODE
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Glencarlyn - Kids Fiction
JF RHODE
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JF RHODE
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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"--
16) Gloom town
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Central - Kids Fiction
JF SMITH
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JF SMITH
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Shirlington - Kids Fiction
JF SMITH
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JF SMITH
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Westover - Kids Fiction
JF SMITH
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JF SMITH
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When twelve-year-old Rory applies for a job at a spooky old mansion in his gloomy seaside town, he finds the owner, Lord Foxglove, odd and unpleasant. But he and his mom need the money, so he takes the job anyway. Rory soon finds out that his new boss is not just strange, he's not even human-and he's trying to steal the townspeople's shadows. Together, Rory and his friend Isabella set out to uncover exactly what Foxglove and his otherworldly accomplices...
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In the small town of Alcolu, South Carolina, in 1944, 12-year-old Ella spends her days fishing and running around with her best friend Henry and cousin Myrna. But life is not always so sunny for Ella, who gets bullied for her light skin tone, and whose mother is away pursuing a jazz singer dream in Boston. So Ella is ecstatic when her mother invites her to visit for Christmas. Little does she expect the truths she will discover about her mother, the...
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"In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself"--
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Legendary Alston Boys adventure volume 1
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Glencarlyn - Kids Fiction
JF GILES
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JF GILES
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Shirlington - Kids Fiction
JF GILES
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JF GILES
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Otto and Sheed are the local sleuths in their zany Virginia town, masters of unraveling mischief using their unmatched powers of deduction. And as the summer winds down and the first day of school looms, the boys are craving just a little bit more time for fun, even as they bicker over what kind of fun they want to have. That is, until a mysterious man appears with a camera that literally freezes time. Now, with the help of some very strange people...
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Little Shaq volume 3
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Central - Kids Fiction
JF ONEAL
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JF ONEAL
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Westover - Kids Fiction
JF ONEAL
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JF ONEAL
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"Little Shaq has always wanted his own kitten, but his parents aren't sure he is responsible enough. When Little Shaq is chosen as his class's Star of the Week, he's sure it's his moment to prove that his parents can count on him. Will Little Shaq be able to show he's ready for his very own pet?"--