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Beginner's Luck - Literary Debuts
Black Voices | YA PEQ
JEF - Black Voices for Black History (Adult)
MCL - Morris Award
Black Voices | YA PEQ
JEF - Black Voices for Black History (Adult)
MCL - Morris Award
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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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Theodore Boone volume 3
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English
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Big trouble is brewing for Theodore Boone. While all of Strattenburg anxiously awaits the new trial of infamous murder suspect Pete Duffy, problems arise for their own kid lawyer. There's been a robbery and Theo is the accused. His reputation is on the line, and with the evidence building against him and dangerous threats looming, Theo will do whatever it takes to prove his innocence even if it means breaking a few rules.
3) What we saw
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The story of a town torn apart by the events surrounding the rape of drunk girl at a house party, from the perspective of the partygoers who witnessed it"--
4) On the edge
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Maddie Diaz witnesses the murder of a homeless man by members of a gang, she tells the cops what she saw without thinking about the repercussions of snitching, but a mysterious guy named Lobo comes to her defense and is determined to take down the gang and protect her"--
5) Hush
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English
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Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.
Author
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Ali Cross volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Ali Cross is following in his father Alex Cross' footsteps as a detective. A crime at a concert near his school sparks his newest investigation, and it gets dangerous fast. When Ali sees a friend get hurt, he's the best person to find out who did it. Even if he's only a kid. After all, he's Alex Cross's son. Solving crimes runs in the family.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
Author
Series
Shades of London volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Rory, of Boueuxlieu, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.
9) Club Dread
Author
Series
Hunted volume 2
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Chastity witnesses the murder of a pop star, her hopes of settling down with her mother in San Francisco seem to disappear.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When her grandmother and guardian suffers a stroke, twelve-year-old Poppy Parker's life turns upside down--but when she witnesses a murder and has to go into witness protection with Detective Brannigan's mother it becomes hard to believe she will ever find a way home, let alone save Gunner, a beautiful German shepherd with an uncertain future.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Theo isn't looking for trouble, but when he and his friends witness a brutal attack on Ricky-Ricky, the kind of kid who doesn't know better than to confront the most vicious gang leader around, he's in trouble for real. And in this neighborhood, everything is at stake.
14) El odio que das
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Starr es una chica de dieciséis años que vive entre dos mundos: el barrio pobre de gente negra donde nació, y su escuela situada en un elegante barrio residencial blanco. El difícil equilibrio entre ambos se hace añicos cuando ella es testigo de la muerte a tiros de su mejor amigo, Khalil, a manos de un policía. A partir de ese momento, todo lo que Starr diga acerca de la aterradora noche que cambió su vida podrá ser usado de excusa...
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