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2022 Youth Media Awards
Printz Medal | Winners And Honorees | 2020-Current
SO MLK Day--Further Reading for Teens
Printz Medal | Winners And Honorees | 2020-Current
SO MLK Day--Further Reading for Teens
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Publisher Annotation: International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood.
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Banned Books Week: Young Adult Fiction
Book List for SOU Education Courses
Books for Teen and Tween Activists
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Book List for SOU Education Courses
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Publisher Annotation: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2019]
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English
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Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr tries to find her voice in order to stand up for what's right.
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Authors to Celebrate this Black History Month
Books @ Noon March 2021 Picks
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After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
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Diverse YA Reads
JCLS Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee: Great Reads
SO MLK Day--Further Reading for Teens
Talking about Race & Racism with Young People
JCLS Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee: Great Reads
SO MLK Day--Further Reading for Teens
Talking about Race & Racism with Young People
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Told from two viewpoints, Atlanta high school seniors Lena and Campbell, one black, one white, must rely on each other to survive after a football rivalry escalates into a riot.
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From debut author Lisa Moore Ramée comes this funny and big-hearted debut middle grade novel about friendship, family, and standing up for what's right, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give and the novels of Renée Watson and Jason Reynolds.
Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she'd also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact, learn to...
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Publisher Annotation: When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks, Jack knows he?s falling?hard. Soon she?s meeting his best friends, Jillian and Franny, and Kate wins them over as easily as she did Jack. But then Kate dies. And their story should end there. Yet Kate?s death sends Jack back to the beginning, the moment they first meet, and Kate?s there again. Healthy, happy,...
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Legacy of Orisha volume 1
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2018.
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
13) Promise boys
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2023.
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J.B., Ramón, and Trey, students of the Urban Promise Prep School, must follow the school's strict rules, but when their principal is murdered, the three boys must band together to track down the real killer before they are arersted.
15) On the come up
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Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother.
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Candlewick Press
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Writing from the perspective of a friend, Frederick Joseph offers candid reflections on his own experiences with racism and conversations with prominent artists and activists about theirs?creating an essential read for white people who are committed anti-racists and those newly come to the cause of racial justice.
18) Banned books for kids: reading lists and activities for teaching kids to read censored literature
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Sourcebooks
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[2023]
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English
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"In our polarized environment, the censorship and outright banning of children's books that some people deem to be controversial or objectionable remains a major concern for schools, libraries, and communities across the United States. Intellectual freedom champion, the American Library Association, created Teaching Banned Books to Kids, a guide that includes both contemporary books that have been banned and classic literature that continues to be...
19) Dear Martin
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Book List for SOU Education Courses
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Books for Teen and Tween Activists
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Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
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