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Language
English
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Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man, suffering from dementia and living as a recluse in his Los Angeles apartment. Then Robyn Small, a 17-year-old family friend, appears and helps clean up his apartment and straighten out his life. A reinvigorated Ptolemy volunteers for an experimental medical program that restores his mind, and he uses his last days--shortened now by the medical experiment--to delve into the mystery of the recent drive-by shooting...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 1110L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Using the alphabet to introduce its contents, this book includes topic such as abolitionists, cowboys, Harlem Renaissance, and Kwanzaa"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Young Oxford history of African Americans volume Volume 5
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
86) Amazing Grace
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
Author
Language
English
Description
"As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 'black rage, ' historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames, ' she writes, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.' Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time...
Author
Series
American crossroads volume 15
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen -- he can't wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and Clayton's mother forbids Clayton from playing the blues. And Clayton knows that's no way to live. Armed with his grandfather's brown porkpie hat and his harmonica, he runs away from home in search of the Bluesmen, hoping...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Presents information about the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the physical and psychological health of African Americans and explains why and how society needs to collectively do more to combat its pernicious effects.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion, " keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
92) Hidden riches
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After a lifetime spent scrubbing and mending for others, Ana Mae Futrell has passed away. Her relatives reluctantly return to their North Carolina hometown to bury the older sister they never really bothered to know--a sister who's stitched clues leading to a million dollars in a quilt.
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"Critically acclaimed writer Jabari Asim guides readers ages 9-12 through the history of African Americans, from the slave trade to the Black Lives Matter movement, in the latest volume in Black Dog's bestselling, award-winning Child's Introduction series. This illustrated introduction to African American history goes beyond what's taught in the classroom giving young readers a more comprehensive look at this timely and important topic. Author Jabari...
Author
Series
A to Z guides volume 49
Publisher
Scarecrow Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2009, c2006
Language
English
100) Before I let go
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Their love was supposed to last forever. But after two devastating tragedies, Yasmen and Josiah Wade realized love alone couldn't solve everything... or keep their marriage together. It's taken a year since their split for Yasmen to finally start feeling like herself again. To finally be able to breathe again. But the more she sees Josiah--whether it's parenting their two children or working together at the restaurant they co-own--the more Yasmen...
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