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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every opportunity that comes her way. And Jade has: every day she rides the bus away from her friends and to the private school where she feels like an outsider, but where she has plenty of opportunities. But some opportunities she doesn't really welcome, like an invitation to join Women to Women, a mentorship program for...
Author
Series
Bluford series volume 16
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Vicky Fallon can't take it. Her father has lost his job. Her parents are constantly fighting, and her troubled little brother is out of control. Once an honor student, Vicky is quickly falling behind in her classes at Bluford High. Now her teachers, friends, and new boyfriend, Martin Luna, want answers. Pressured from all sides, Vicky knows something is about to snap. But the explosion that hits her home is worse than anything she could image.--Book...
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Series
Bluford series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"'Someone is stalking me!'...Darcy Wills is in big trouble. And she does not know where to turn for help. First there was the mysterious stranger who started following her. Then there was the threatening note left on her desk at Bluford High School. And now her sister has disappeared. Forced into a desperate race against time, Darcy must take action to save her sister--and her fragile family--before it is too late"--Book description.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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"Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends. This year at their NYC high school, they plan to rock the theater and poetry clubs ... until Chelsea realizes the poetry club is more interested in the "classics" than poems that matter, and Jasmine has an experience that is more drama than theater. Sick over the way even their progressive school fails to listen to their voices, they start a new club, one dedicated to writing and creating work that supports women's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Recounts the events surrounding the 1957 photograph taken by Will Counts that captured one of nine African-American students trying to enter an Arkansas high school while being taunted by an angry white mob and discusses how the photo brought the civil rights movement to the forefront of the nation's attention.
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Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Lydell Nelson Was a senior now, but hardly anyone in the class knew him. During lunch, he was always writing in a journal. Nobody ever bothered to ask him what he was writing, and he nevervolunteered any information.But when people tried to be friends, he just turned them away.
7) The game
Author
Series
Cap central volume 5
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Cecilia Calhoun's transition to Cap Central has been rough. She joined the school's step team to make friends and keep busy. But the team's co-captain, Brennay Baxter, is a dictator. She makes life miserable for any girl who doesn't do what she says. Worse, Cecilia is convinced Brennay is behind an anonymous online game that awards points for every interaction wtih an autistic student. And she's disgusted with herself for not putting a stop to the...
8) Resolved
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Looks inside the world of high school debate at the National Tournament of Champions, focusing on seniors Richard Funches and Louis Blackwell.
Author
Series
Drama High volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When Jayd starts dating a half-Jewish white boy, her ex-boyfriend KJ starts trouble, while her enemy Misty and an anti-black teacher make her life miserable, forcing her to rely on Mama's magic to get through another day at Drama High.
Author
Series
Bluford series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"In grade school, Darcy Wills and Brisana Meeks were friends. But all that changed at Bluford High when Darcy started hanging with "the zeros"--a group of students Brisana despises. Now the former friends are bitter rivals, and the tension between them is getting worse. For a while, Darcy tries to stay calm, ignoring her old friend's daily taunts. But when she learns that Brisana is after her boyfriend, Hakeem Randall, Darcy knows she must do something....
11) Chaos theory
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A senior at Windward Academy, Shelbi, who has a diagnosed mental illness, keeps to herself until she forms a connection with Andy Criddle, who is battling addiction, but the closer they get, the more the past threatens to pull them apart.
12) Jayd's Legacy
Author
Series
Drama High volume 3
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Jayd Jackson, happily in a relationship with the coolest white boy ever, deals with her ex-boyfriend, who is trying to break them up, and her best friend Nellie who is causing all sorts of drama as she runs for junior class homecoming Princess against the Athletes and Cheerleaders.
13) Tia: Fitting in
Author
Series
Juicy central volume 5
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
After Mexican American Tia joins the Yearbook Club so she can get to know her classmates better and improve her English, she decides to run against popular Sherise for club president.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that schools had to allow Black students to attend previously all-white schools. On September 4, 1957, nine Black students were set to attend Little Rock Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas. But when they arrived, an angry mob of white people spat at them and hurled racist insults. They were also prevented from entering the school by the National Guard. After they were finally allowed in weeks later, they faced...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
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Describing the author's life and experiences, this is "the ... true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West Side who form the first all-black high school rowing team in the nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Series
Flyy girls novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Meet the Flyy Girls. The group of girls who seem like they can get away with anything. Veteran author Ashley Woodfolk pens a gorgeous and dynamic series of four Harlem highschoolers, each facing a crossroads of friendship, family, and love. Micah Dupree had always liked being the "good girl." She was happy painting, going to church, and acing her school projects. After all, she had a perfect older brother to live up to. But when he unexpectedly dies,...
Author
Series
Bluford series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Roylin Bailey is living a nightmare--and it's all his fault. It started when the new student, Korie Archer, arrived in his history class. She was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen, and unlike most people at Bluford High, she seemed to like him. But when Roylin tried to impress her, he made a terrible mistake. Now one of his friends is gone, and someone is out to destroy him. Caught in a tightening web of lies and threats, Roylin is desperate...
18) The Fight
Author
Series
Drama High volume 1
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When sixteen-year-old Jayd Jackson returns to South Bay High, she discovers that her former best friend is out to get her and her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend wants to fight, which forces Jayd to turn to Mama and her bag of tricks for help.
Author
Series
Flyy girls novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Meet the Flyy Girls. The group of girls who seem like they can get away with anything. Veteran author Ashley Woodfolk pens a gorgeous and dynamic series of four Harlem highschoolers, each facing a crossroads of friendship, family, and love. Lux Lawson is on a spree. Ever since her dad left, she's been kicked out of every school that would take her, and this is her last chance: Harlem's Augusta Savage School of the Arts. If this doesn't work, Lux...
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