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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Mina Mooney is about to discover that when you're at the top, the only place to go is down. . .
It's springtime in Del Rio Bay, and everyone's heading to the O.C. to catch the varsity cheer squad compete at the Extreme Nationals. Everyone's pumped, especially Mina Mooney, because making the elite squad has finally gained her entrance into the Upper Circle. Mina's psyched for the big show--and some unsupervised cuddle time with Brian. Best of all,...
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Inspired by the events of his own life, the Essence bestselling author of B-More Careful and Bad Girlz presents a vivid, unflinching novel about a young man's coming of age in the city streets. Never Go Home Again is the story of Corey Dixon, a young man whose father tries as best he can to steer him away from the lure of the streets. And yet, like so many others in his neighborhood, Corey finds the lucrative drug trade too tempting to resist. While...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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At Niveus Private Academy, Devon and Chiamaka are the only students chosen to be Senior Prefects who are also black, which makes them targets for a series of anonymous texts revealing their secrets to the entire student body. Both students were on track toward valedictorian and bright college futures, but this prank quickly turns into a very dangerous game and they are at more than one disadvantage as it looks like things could turn deadly.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
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"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
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Ride or die chick novels volume 1
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From the day he was born, Treacherous Freeman was never given a fair chance. He was raised by his father, a notorious gangster who deprived Treacherous of a normal childhood. Instead, he gave Treacherous an education in life on the streets of Virginia. When the time comes for Treacherous to make some sudden decisions, he has no idea they will land him in the very place that he is trying to avoid.
Teflon Jackson is a beautiful woman who is the result...
9) Raising Kane
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Denim diaries volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Fifteen-year-old Kane Alexander resents having to care for her two younger siblings while her father works, and when he insists Kane put her family before her social life, Kane decides to run away.
10) Crazy love
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Falling obsessively in love with Sincere Lewis, Kamiyah Nicols begins watching Sincere constantly, hacking into his online accounts and straining her own relationships with friends and family to assuage her growing anxieties.
11) The hoopster
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Hoopster trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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Andre Anderson is a black teenager who loves to play basketball, When he is viciously attacked, it calls his whole world into question--even his deadly jumpshot.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Jay is forced to continually cover for his sister, Nicole, who hangs out with the wrong crowd; however, Jay can't deal with it any more. Soon after, Nic fails to return home. When she's deemed missing, the police barely bother to search for her; she's just another lost Black girl. Jay feels guilty and he thinks, "If I hadn't hung up on her that night, she would be home spending time with our grandma. If I was a better brother, she'd be finishing senior...
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Shortie like mine volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
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Teenage single mother Toi McKnight struggles to balance school, her job, and taking care of her young son, and she finds herself immersed in more drama when she falls in love with Harlem, a man who refuses to date teenage mothers.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
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When her friend Monday Charles goes missing and Monday's mother refuses to give her a straight answer, Claudia digs into her disappearance.
Monday Charles is missing, and Claudia seems to be the one person who notices. They've always been inseparable, and when Monday doesn't show up for school for two weeks, Claudia knows that something is wrong. Monday's mother refuses to give Claudia a straight answer, and her sister April is even less help. How...
16) Zyla & Kai
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The story of how a cynic and a hopeless romantic become friends, fall in love, and break up unfolds from their different perspectives.
17) Second chance
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Drama High volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Back at high school Jayd Jackson is looking for a new boyfriend and finds one in Jeremy Weiner, a half-Jewish white boy from Palos Verdes whose parents are rich.
19) Bronxwood
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Tyrell's life is spinning out of control after his father is released from prison, his little brother is placed in foster care, and the drug dealers he's living with are pressuring him to start dealing.
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