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Author
Series
Great Courses volume 13
Language
English
Description
Professor Schmid challenges the stereotypical lack of diversity in most mystery and suspense fiction by presenting the contribution that writers from other races and ethnicities have made to the genre. By investigating both black writers and black characters, you'll see how black mystery fiction views crime not just in terms of challenges and solutions, but also in terms of justice.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Elliot Gabaroche is very clear on what she isn't going to do this summer - things like mock trial camp at UCLA and the Air Force summer program in Colorado Springs. But what she is going to do is pack up her determination, her favorite Octavia Butler novels, and her Jordans, and go to summer camp. Specifically, a cutthroat academic-decathlon-like competition for a full scholarship to Rayevich College, the only college with a...
4) Grown
Author
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Award-winning author Tiffany D. Jackson delivers another riveting, ripped-from-the-headlines mystery that exposes horrific secrets hiding behind the limelight and embraces the power of a young woman’s voice. When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2022-2023 OBOB 9th-12th Grade
American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
If I Ever Get Out of Here: Further Reading
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American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
If I Ever Get Out of Here: Further Reading
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Description
Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Emily Bird is an African American high school senior in Washington D.C., member of a privileged medical family, on the verge of college and the edge of the drug culture, and not really sure which way she will go--then one day she wakes up in the hospital with no memory of what happened.
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Tasia Quirk is young, Black, and fabulous. She's a senior, she's got great friends, and a supportive and wealthy family. She even plays football as the only girl on her private high school's team. But when she catches her mamma trying to stuff a mysterious box in the closet, her identity is suddenly called into question. Now Tasia?s determined to unravel the lies that have overtaken her life. Along the way, she discovers what...
Author
Series
Flyy girls novels volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Meet the Flyy Girls. The group of girls who seem like they can get away with anything. Veteran author Ashley Woodfolk pens a gorgeous and dynamic series of four Harlem highschoolers, each facing a crossroads of friendship, family, and love. Lux Lawson is on a spree. Ever since her dad left, she's been kicked out of every school that would take her, and this is her last chance: Harlem's Augusta Savage School of the Arts. If this doesn't work, Lux...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: Black is...sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Ren?e Watson. Black is?three friends walking back from the community pool talking about nothing and everything, in a story by Jason Reynolds. Black is?Nic Stone?s high-class beauty dating a boy her momma would never approve of. Black is?two girls kissing in Justina Ireland?s story set in Maryland. Black is urban and rural, wealthy...
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