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81) Come on, rain
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.
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Heaven trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
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Pub. Date
2005.
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"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary."
Overcoming extreme poverty, racism, and other adversities Carter Godwin...
85) The Davenports
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Pub. Date
2023.
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The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in 1910 Chicago, and the two daughters, Olivia and Helen, are finding their way and finding love--even where they are not supposed to.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self- respect they need to survive.
88) The getaway
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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"Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of the world’s most famous resorts. He’s got his family, his crew, and an incredible after-school job at the property’s main theme park. Life isn’t so great for the rest of the world, but when people come here to vacation, it’s to get away from all that. As things outside get worse, trouble starts seeping into Karloff. First, Jay’s friend Connie and her family disappear in the middle...
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This novel is a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, the story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope...
90) The yellow house
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"A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands...
91) Everybody says
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Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
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A boy proud of his individuality proclaims his love of raw carrots, rainy days, and his pet iguana.
92) Wonder horse
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Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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A fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely. Includes an author's note.
93) Boundless Grace
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Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 2
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Grace is invited for a visit with her father and his new family in Africa.
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Nightjohn volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl whom Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four.
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Dyamonde Daniel books volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Dyamonde Daniel may be new in town, but that doesn't stop her from making a place for herself in a jiffy. With her can-do attitude and awesome brain power she takes the whole neighborhood by storm. The only thing puzzling her is the other new kid in her class. He's grouchy-but Dyamonde's determined to get to the bottom of his attitude and make a friend.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
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An introduction to the life Martin Luther King, Jr. Including how he organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott and African American people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights.