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81) Uptown
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A tour of the sights of Harlem, including the Metro-North Train, brownstones, shopping on 125th Street, a barber shop, summer basketball, the Boy's Choir, and sunset over the Harlem River.
82) Zyla & Kai
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The story of how a cynic and a hopeless romantic become friends, fall in love, break up, and then disappear during senior trip.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
New Orleans, 1838. When Benjamin January suddenly finds that his services playing piano at extravagant balls held by the citys wealthy are no longer required, he ends up agreeing to accompany sugar planter Henri Viellard and his young wife, Chlï¸ o, on a mission to Washington to find a missing friend.
Author
Series
Marvelous world volume 1.5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Transported to the fantasy world of Midlandia, Louis Proof, an inner-city boy from New Jersey, tries to return home using his newly acquired powers.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Carli and Rex have an immediate connection, an understanding that must mean first love, but family secrets, disappointments--and basketball, which holds center stage in both their lives--all create complications"--
91) Feathers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
Author
Language
English
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Description
When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the wake of her parents' death, Aretha, a habitually single Black lawyer, has had only one obsession in life--success--until she falls for Aaron, a coffee entrepreneur. Moving into his Brooklyn brownstone to live along with his Hurricane Sandy-traumatized, illegal-gun-stockpiling, optimized-soy-protein-eating, bunker-building roommates, Aretha finds that her dreams of making partner are slipping away, replaced by an underground world, one of selling...
96) Princess hair
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Little girls pretending to be princesses celebrate the different shapes, textures, and styles of their black hair.
Author
Series
The Vanderbeekers volume 2
Language
English
Description
"When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After losing her child and seeing the world as an increasingly dangerous place, a young Black woman from Boston decides to construct a separate society at an abandoned restaurant in Western Massachusetts. She locates a benefactor and soon it all begins to take shape, but it doesn't take long for problems to develop"--