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1) Sag Harbor
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Language
English
Description
Benji, one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, tries desperately to fit in, but every summer, he and his brother, Reggie, escape to the East End of Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals has built a world of its own.
Author
Language
English
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Tow-Kaye just learned that the love of his life is pregnant--and though he knows what the right thing to do is, he's scared to death to do it. Jeffrey hates having a mom who dresses like a teenager, but when another sexy mom moves in next door--well, that's a different kind of problem. In these and twenty-two other short stories and poems, readers plumb the inner lives of African American teenage boys.
Author
Publisher
Lion Forge
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Invulnerability is a pretty useless superpower if you?ve only got a one-hundred-pound frame to back it up. That?s what Quinton West?s life became when he went from a small guy who got beat up to a small guy who can?t get hurt after the meteor shower dubbed ?The Event? gifted him the power of invulnerability but no other powers to compliment it. But there?s more to Quin than meets the eye, and Quin realizes that he can use his quirky hobby of creating...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins PUblishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When Trayvon Martin took his last walk down a Florida street on a cool February evening in 2012, he was just another American teenager, heading home with candy and a soda, talking on the phone with a friend, and dreaming of the future. By the end of the night he was dead--gunned down by a neighborhood watchman. Within weeks his name would be on the lips of a President and the movement for justice in his case would spread all over the country. Today...