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050111
Becoming Muhammad Ali by Patterson, James 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2020)

BTSB #: 050111 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.4 MG RC: 8.6 6-8 Lexile: 1010

Genres: Historical Fiction Sports Family Life


Subjects: Ali, Muhammad,|d1942-2016 - Childhood and youth - Fiction Family life - Fiction Boxing - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Louisville (Ky.) - Fiction


Summary: A fictionalized biography of Muhammad Ali when he was a child.


964696
Before the ever after by Woodson, Jacqueline 

BTSB Prebound(Nancy Paulsen, 2020)

BTSB #: 964696 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.5 MG Lexile: 780

Genres: Sports Family Life


Subjects: Novels in verse Brain - Diseases - Fiction Best friends - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Father-son relationship - Fiction Memory - Fiction Football - Fiction African Americans - Fiction


Summary: ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.


290490
Blended by Draper, Sharon M. 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2018)

BTSB #: 290490 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4 MG RC: 3.4 3-5 Lexile: 610 F&P: Y

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Racially mixed people - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Divorce - Fiction Family life - Ohio - Fiction Ohio - Fiction


Summary: Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.


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050280
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019)

BTSB #: 050280 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 9-12   
AR: 4 MG Lexile: 670 GN

Subjects: Graphic novels Novels in verse Basketball - Fiction Twins - Fiction Brothers - Fiction Father-son relationship - Fiction African Americans - Fiction


Summary: Twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health. In graphic novel format.


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582170
For black girls like me by Lockington, Mariama 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2019)

BTSB #: 582170 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.5 MG RC: 3.7 6-8 Lexile: 500 HL

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Identity (Psychology) - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Interracial adoption - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Home schooling - Fiction Moving - Fiction


Summary: Eleven-year-old Makeda dreams of meeting her African American mother, while coping with serious problems in her white adopted family, a cross-country move, and being homeschooled.


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949807
Genesis begins again by Williams, Alicia 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum, 2019)

BTSB #: 949807 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-13   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 4.2 6-8 Lexile: 670 F&P: Y

Genres: Multicultural


Subjects: Human skin color - Fiction Self-esteem - Fiction Family problems - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction Moving - Fiction


Summary: Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.


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749481
Ghost boys by Rhodes, Jewell Parker 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2018)

BTSB #: 749481 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3 MG RC: 3.2 6-8 Lexile: 360 HL F&P: Z

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Till, Emmett,|d1941-1955 - Fiction Police shootings - Fiction Racism - Fiction Death - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Family life - Illinois - Chicago - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - Fiction


Summary: After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till.


952714
Gone crazy in Alabama [Gaither sisters]by Williams-Garcia, Rita 

BTSB Prebound(Amistad, 2015)

BTSB #: 952714 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 4.5 3-5 Lexile: 740

Genres: Family Life


Subjects: Sisters - Fiction Family life - Fiction Summer - Fiction Alabama - Fiction


Summary: The Gaither sisters are about to learn what it's like to be fish out of water as they travel from the streets of Brooklyn to the rural South for the summer of a lifetime.


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879491
Hate u give by Thomas, Angie 

BTSB Prebound(HarperCollins, 2017)

BTSB #: 879491 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 3.9 UG RC: 5.3 9-12 Lexile: 590 HL

Genres: Multicultural


Subjects: Racism - Fiction Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Police shootings - Fiction Witnesses - Fiction


Summary: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. These worlds are shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.


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Last last-day-of-summer [Legendary Alston Boys Adventure]by Giles, Lamar 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019)

BTSB #: 379218 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-12   
AR: 5.2 MG RC: 4.5 3-5 Lexile: 740 F&P: V

Genres: Adventure Fiction Supernatural Science Fiction


Subjects: Adventure fiction Time - Fiction Supernatural - Fiction Cousins - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Science fiction


Summary: When adventurous cousins Otto and Sheed Alston accidentally extend the last day of summer by freezing time, they find the secrets between the unmoving seconds are not as much fun as they expected.


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247077
New kid by Craft, Jerry 

BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2019)

BTSB #: 247077 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 2.9 MG RC: 3.1 3-5 Lexile: 320 GN

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Humorous fiction Private schools - Fiction School stories Graphic novels


Summary: Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and not really fitting into either one. Can Jordan learn to navigate his new school culture while keeping his neighborhood friends and staying true to himself? In graphic novel format.


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One crazy summer [Gaither sisters]by Williams-Garcia, Rita 

BTSB Prebound(HarperCollins/Amistad, 2010)

BTSB #: 952892 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.6 MG RC: 4.6 3-5 Lexile: 750 F&P: W

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Black Panther Party - Fiction Mothers - Fiction African Americans - Fiction California - History - Fiction


Summary: In the summer of 1968, after traveling to Oakland, California, to spend a month with their estranged mother, Delphine and her two younger sisters get a cold welcome as their mother makes them attend a Black Panther summer camp.


495808
Parker inheritance by Johnson, Varian 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic, 2018)

BTSB #: 495808 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.2 MG RC: 4.4 6-8 Lexile: 610 F&P: Y

Genres: Mystery Fiction Historical Fiction


Subjects: Mystery fiction African Americans - Fiction Buried treasure - Fiction Grandmothers - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Friendship - Fiction South Carolina - Fiction


Summary: Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out to find the inheritance, exonerate her grandmother, and expose an injustice once committed against an African American family in Lambert.


050639
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)

BTSB #: 050639 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-12   
AR: 4.3 MG RC: 4.7 6-8 Lexile: 780 F&P: Y

Genres: Sports Family Life Multicultural


Subjects: Novels in verse Basketball - Fiction Families - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Washington (D.C.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.


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596675
Season of Styx Malone by Magoon, Kekla 

BTSB Prebound(Wendy Lamb Books, 2018)

BTSB #: 596675 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.8 MG RC: 2.8 3-5 Lexile: 510 F&P: W

Genres: Adventure Fiction Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Adventure fiction Family life - Indiana - Fiction Foster children - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Indiana - Fiction


Summary: Caleb Franklin and his younger brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer with their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city.


706366
Seventh most important thing by Pearsall, Shelley 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2015)

BTSB #: 706366 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.1 MG RC: 4.6 6-8 Lexile: 760 F&P: Y

Genres: General Fiction


Subjects: Hampton, James,|d1909-1964 - Fiction Artists - Fiction Folk art - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Community service (Punishment) - Fiction


Summary: In 1963, thirteen-year-old Arthur is sentenced to community service helping the neighborhood Junk Man after he throws a brick at the old man's head in a moment of rage, but the junk he collects might be more important than he suspects. Inspired by the work of American folk artist James Hampton.


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922618
Some places more than others by Watson, Renee 

BTSB Prebound(Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2019)

BTSB #: 922618 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG RC: 4.6 3-5 Lexile: 750

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Family life - New York (State) - Harlem - Fiction African Americans - New York (State) - New York - Fiction Harlem (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - Fiction


Summary: Amara visits her father's family in Harlem for her twelfth birthday, hoping to better understand her family and herself, but New York City is not what she expected.


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596149
Taste for victory [Jake Maddox Graphic Novels]by Maddox, Jake 

BTSB Prebound(Stone Arch, 2021)

BTSB #: 596149 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 3 MG Lexile: 560 GN F&P: R

Subjects: Basketball - Fiction Cooking - Fiction Hobbies - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Graphic novels


Summary: Hank Watson loves playing basketball and helping his team win big games. But he has another passion too--cooking! When Hank has an opportunity to meet celebrity chef Brenton Spooner, he jumps at the chance. But while practicing a difficult dish, he accidentally burns his hand. The injury affects his performance both on the court and in the kitchen. Will Hank come through in the clutch and help his team win the big game and still impress his cooking hero? In graphic novel format.


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604568
Tristan Strong destroys the world [Tristan Strong Volume: Book 2]by Mbalia, Kwame 

BTSB Prebound(Disney/Hyperion, 2020)

BTSB #: 604568 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5 MG Lexile: 710

Genres: Adventure Fiction Supernatural Science Fiction


Subjects: Adventure fiction Kidnapping - Fiction Supernatural - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Science fiction


Summary: Seventh-grader Tristan must return to Alke and enlist the help of African gods and black folktale heroes when Nana is abducted from the Strong family farm in Alabama.


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208407
Turning point by Chase, Paula 

BTSB Prebound(Greenwillow Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 208407 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.9 MG Lexile: 730

Genres: Multicultural


Subjects: Best friends - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Ballet dancers - Fiction African Americans - Fiction


Summary: Best friends Rasheeda and Monique navigate the ups and downs of a teenagers' summer, Mo at home in the Cove; Sheeda at a sleepaway ballet intensive.


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