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1) Harbor me
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
4) Remember us
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"The summer before seventh grade, as the constant threat of housefires looms over her Brooklyn neighborhood, basketball-loving Sage is trying to figure out her place in her circle of friends, when a new kid named Freddy moves in"--
5) Show way
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The making of "Show ways, " or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
Author
Language
English
Description
Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of town from the white side where Annie lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around the grown-ups' rules by sitting on top of the fence together. With the addition of a brand-new author's note, this special edition celebrates the tenth anniversary of this classic book. As always, Woodson moves readers with her lyrical narrative, and...
9) Feathers
Author
Language
English
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Description
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
10) The dear one
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Feni has to adjust when the pregnant young daughter of an old friend of her mother's comes to stay with them.
11) Hush
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.
12) Behind you
Author
Language
English
Description
After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that 'Miah is watching over them.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
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.
15) Visiting day
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
17) Our Gracie Aunt
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Following their wise grandmother's advice, a brother and sister discover their ability to lift themselves up and imagine a better world"/"Siguiendo el consejo de su sabia abuela, un hermano y una hermana descubren su capacidad para levantarse e imaginar un mundo mejor"--Provided by publisher.
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