![Sweet whispers, Brother Rush [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/56505@2x.jpg)
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Virginia Hamilton
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Summary: Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a retarded brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems.
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Paul Volponi
(630)
Summary: While playing in a crucial basketball game on the very court where his best friend was murdered, Mackey tries to come to terms with his own part in that murder and decide whether to maintain his...
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![Clover [downloadable ebook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/69294@2x.jpg)
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Dori Sanders
(1,093)
Summary: After her father dies within hours of being married to a white woman, a ten-year-old black girl learns with her new mother to overcome grief and to adjust to a new place in their rural black South Carolina community.
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![Game [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53795@2x.jpg)
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Walter Dean Myers
(798)
Summary: If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially...
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![Night heat [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/56292@2x.jpg)
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Brenda Jackson
(1,104)
Summary: Sebastian Steele was the kind of man women dreamed about. He was drop-dead gorgeous, wickedly charming and fabulously wealthy. So why wouldn't Jocelyn Mason accept his offer to help her struggling...
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![Porch lies [downloadable audiobook] / tales of slicksters, tricksters, and other wily characters](https://www.johnstonlibrary.com/wp_pac/full/images/noimage.gif)
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Pat McKissack
Summary: A story anthology from award-winning author Patricia C. McKissack, who has been credited with changing the face of children's literature with her rich writing that celebrates the expressions of...
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![A thousand never evers [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/46071@2x.jpg)
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Shana Burg
Summary: A bold work of historical fiction about one African American girl who finds her voice in segregated Mississippi. In Kuckachoo, Mississippi, 1963, Addie Ann Pickett worships her brother Elias and...
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![Response [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/56560@2x.jpg)
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Paul Volponi
(354)
Summary: When an African American high school student is beaten with a baseball bat in a white neighborhood, three boys are charged with a hate crime.
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![Darnell Rock reporting [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/56565@2x.jpg)
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Walter Dean Myers
(130)
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Darnell's twin sister and the other members of the Corner Crew have doubts about his work on the school newspaper, but the article he writes about a homeless man changes his attitude about school.
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![47 [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/56606@2x.jpg)
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Walter Mosley
(1,822)
Summary: Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.
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![Rikers High [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/56559@2x.jpg)
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Paul Volponi
(854)
Summary: Arrested on a minor offense, a New York City teenager attends high school in the jail facility on Rikers Island, as he waits for his case to go to court.
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![A good night for ghosts [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/56390@2x.jpg)
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Mary Pope Osborne
(3,367)
Summary: Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."
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![Most loved in all the world [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/63553@2x.jpg)
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Tonya Hegamin
(144)
Summary: Even though Mama is an agent on the Underground Railroad, in order to help others she must remain a slave, but she teaches her daughter the value of freedom through a gift of love and sacrifice.
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![The planet of Junior Brown [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/58491@2x.jpg)
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Virginia Hamilton
(807)
Summary: Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.
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![Nikki and Deja [downloadable ebook] / election madness](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61321@2x.jpg)
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Karen English
(57)
Summary: When Carver Elementary holds school-wide elections for the first time, third-grader Deja puts all her efforts into running for school president, ignoring her best friend Nikki's problems.
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Jane Kurtz
(103)
Summary: Desta's father, who needs to return briefly to his Ethiopian homeland, describes what it was like for him to grow up there.
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![Sahara special [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/43052@2x.jpg)
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Esme Raji Codell
(3,422)
Summary: Struggling with school and her feelings since her father left, Sahara gets a fresh start with a new and unique teacher who supports her writing talents and the individuality of each of her classmates.
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![The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation. [downloadable audiobook] / Volume one. the pox party](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/39005@2x.jpg)
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M. T Anderson
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Summary: Octavian Nothing is raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers. He and his mother are the only people in their household assigned names. Young Octavian begins to question the...
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![Vive la Paris [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/36633@2x.jpg)
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Esme Raji Codell
(307)
Summary: Paris has just come for piano lessons, not chopped-liver sandwiches or French lessons or free advice. But when old Mrs. Rosen gives her a little bit more than she can handle, it might be just what...
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![Bucking the Sarge [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35524@2x.jpg)
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Christopher Paul Curtis
(1,698)
Summary: Luther T. Farrell has got to get out of Flint, Michigan. As his best friend, Sparky, says, "Flint's nothing but the Titanic." And as Luther's mother, aka the Sarge, says, "Take my advice and stay off...
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Victoria Bond
(1,315)
Summary: A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and...
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![Satch & me [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53686@2x.jpg)
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Dan Gutman
(1,331)
Summary: With his ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe takes Flip with him to find out whether Satchel Paige really was the fastest pitcher ever.
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![Hush harbor [downloadable ebook] / praying in secret](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/54659@2x.jpg)
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Freddi Williams Evans
Summary: While Simmy watches for danger from high in a tree, other slaves gather in a hidden spot in the woods to sing and pray together in their own way, risking their lives in pursuit of religious freedom....
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![After Tupac & D Foster [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53762@2x.jpg)
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Jacqueline Woodson
(3,961)
Summary: In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
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![Bucking the Sarge [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/55255@2x.jpg)
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Christopher Paul Curtis
(1,698)
Summary: Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men,...
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![Make way for Dyamonde Daniel [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61198@2x.jpg)
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Nikki Grimes
Summary: Spunky third-grader Dyamonde Daniel misses her old neighborhood, but when she befriends a boy named Free, another new student at school, she finally starts to feel at home.
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![A summer of Kings [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61602@2x.jpg)
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Han Nolan
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Summary: Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family.
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![Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and me, Elizabeth [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35618@2x.jpg)
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E. L Konigsburg
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Summary: Two fifth-grade girls, one of whom is the first black child in a middle-income suburb, play at being apprentice witches.
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![Mr. Chickee's messy mission [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/43063@2x.jpg)
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Christopher Paul Curtis
Summary: The Flint Future Detectives are back in another hilarious adventure that's filled with more gizmos and gadgets. Steven and his best friend Russell are back! When Russell's dog, Rodney Rodent, jumps...
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![With every drop of blood [downloadable audiobook] / a novel of the Civil War](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/76146@2x.jpg)
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James Lincoln Collier
Summary: A vivid portrayal of the Civil War. Johnny, 14, convinces his mother to let him join a wagon train carrying food to Confederate soldiers. He has been brought up to believe that all blacks are stupid;...
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![The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35700@2x.jpg)
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Christopher Paul Curtis
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Summary: Enter the world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the "weird" Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Mom and Dad decide to visit Grandma, the Watsons head off to Birmingham, Alabama, where they witness a tragic historic event.
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![The house of Dies Drear [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/58490@2x.jpg)
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Virginia Hamilton
(3,162)
Summary: A black family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.
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Virginia Hamilton
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Summary: As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.
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![Cast two shadows [downloadable ebook] / the American Revolution in the South](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/60927@2x.jpg)
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Ann Rinaldi
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Summary: In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen-year-old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll among her family and friends and, along with a startling revelation about her own background, comes to understand the true nature of war.
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![The other half of my heart [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/56500@2x.jpg)
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Sundee Tucker Frazier
(1,234)
Summary: Twin daughters of interracial parents, eleven-year-olds Keira and Minna have very different skin tones and personalities, but it is not until their African American grandmother enters them in the...
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Shannon Gibney
(544)
Summary: "Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people from one African American family chasing an elusive dream across centuries and continents. Gibney conjures an ambitious, sinuous novel...
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![Dream country [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/194495@2x.jpg)
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Shannon Gibney
Summary: "Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people from one African American family chasing an elusive dream across centuries and continents. Gibney conjures an ambitious, sinuous novel...
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![Harbor me [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/193313@2x.jpg)
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Jacqueline Woodson (read by Jacqueline Woodson)
(9,334)
Summary: When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world." -- Provided by publisher
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Call #: YA CD BOOK F WOODSON
Location: YA CD Books Fiction
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Jacqueline Woodson
(9,415)
Summary: "When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world." -- Provided by publisher
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Call #: YA F WOODSON
Location: YA Fiction
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![Harbor me [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/201016@2x.jpg)
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Jacqueline Woodson
(9,337)
Summary: When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world." -- Provided by publisher
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