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(0)Jacqueline Woodson
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When August, an anthropologist who has studied the funeral traditions of different cultures, revisits her old neighborhood after her father's death, her reunion with a brother and a chance encounter with an old friend bring back a flood of childhood memories. Flashbacks depict the isolation she felt moving from rural Tennessee to New York and show how her later years were influenced by the black power movement, nearby street violence, her father's...
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Language
English
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Description
"Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier,...
3) Remember us
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Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"It seems like Sage's whole world is on fire the summer before she starts seventh grade. As house after house burns down, her Bushwick neighborhood gets referred to as "The Matchbox" in the local newspaper. And while Sage prefers to spend her time shooting hoops with the guys, she's also still trying to figure out her place inside the circle of girls she's known since childhood. A group that each day, feels further and further away from her. But it's...
5) Visiting day
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"Siguiendo el consejo de su sabia abuela, un hermano y una hermana descubren su capacidad para levantarse e imaginar un mundo mejor". --
"Following their wise grandmother's advice, a brother and sister discover their ability to lift themselves up and imagine a better world." --
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When a brother and sister are taken to stay with their mother's sister because their mother neglects them, they wonder if they will see their mother again.