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• Booked

  Alexander, Kwame

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  Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.

• This Book Is Anti-racist

  Jewell, Tiffany

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  Learn about anti-racism work, what it means to be an ally and how to stand up to injustice when you see it.

• Brown Girl Dreaming

  Woodson, Jacqueline

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  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.

• Child of the Dream

  a Memoir of 1963

  Robinson, Sharon, 1950-

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  The daughter of Jackie Robinson shares her memories of growing up during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

• Clean Getaway

  Stone, Nic

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  Take a trip with bestselling author Nic Stone (Dear Martin) and an eleven-year-old boy who is about to discover that the world hasn't always been a welcoming place for kids like him, and things aren't always what they seem--his G'ma…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crown (read Along)

  An Ode to the Fresh Cut

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  Celebrates the magnificent feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with a new cut.

• For Black Girls Like Me

  Lockington, Mariama

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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.

• Genesis Begins Again

  Williams, Alicia, 1970-

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  Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.

• A Good Kind of Trouble

  Ramée, Lisa Moore

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  Shayla always tries to stay out of trouble. But seventh grade means trying new things, taking risks, and standing up for what you believe in, even if a little bit of trouble follows.

• King and the Dragonflies

  Callender, Kacen

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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"--

• Look Both Ways

  a Tale Told in Ten Blocks

  Reynolds, Jason

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  Jason Reynolds tells ten tales (one per block) about what happens after the school bell rings, and weaves them into one story about the detours we face on the walk home, and in life.

• New Kid

  Craft, Jerry

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  Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• March. Book One

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020

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  This is the first volume in a trilogy of graphic memoirs based on the life of civil rights leader and US Congressman John Lewis.

• My Life as An Ice Cream Sandwich

  Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

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  In the summer of 1984, twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace of Huntsville, Alabama, visits her father in Harlem, where her fascination with outer space and science fiction interfere with her finding acceptance.

• Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. Vol. 1, BFF

  Montclare, Brandon

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  Introduces Lunella Lafayette, also known as Moon Girl, the smartest person in the Marvel Universe! Lunella has a compelling reason for requiring an Omni-Wave Projector but she doesn’t plan on also bringing a gigantic T. Rex into the future!

• The Only Black Girls in Town

  Colbert, Brandy

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  In a predominately white California beach town, the only two black seventh-graders, Alberta and Edie, find hidden journals that uncover family secrets and speak to race relations in the past.

• Stamped

  Racism, Antiracism, and You

  Kendi, Ibram X.

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  Jason Reynolds presents a young readers’ version of Stamped From the Beginning about the history of racist and antiracist ideas in America

• The Undefeated

  Alexander, Kwame

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  Kwame Alexander (The Crossover) writes a tribute to black American triumph and tribulation.

• The Usual Suspects

  Broaddus, Maurice

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  When middle school student Thelonius is suspected of hiding a gun in the park near his school, he is determined to find out who actually did it.

• What Lane?

  Maldonado, Torrey

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  Biracial sixth-grader Stephen questions the limitations society puts on him after he notices the way strangers treat him when he hangs out with his white friends and learns about the Black Lives Matter movement.