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1) Monster
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 7
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
In Mississippi in the early 1900s ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A black family living in Missippippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
11) Scorpions
Author
Language
English
Description
After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs. The story of twelve-year-old Jamal, whose life changes drastically when he acquires a gun. Though he survives the experience, it's not without sacrificing his innocence and possibly his relationship with his best friend.
13) Dancer
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Stephanie struggles to perfect her ballet dancing as her classes are complicated by the introduction of a new male dancer.
15) Toning the sweep
Author
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.
17) Who is Carrie?
Author
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
A young black girl living in New York City in the late eighteenth century observes the historic events taking place around her and at the same time solves the mystery of her own identity.
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