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Urban FictionMiddle School |
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Janae
by L. J. Alonge
The five urban basketball stars from Justin tackle a new set of competitors who cause them to misstep, lose tempers and reveal their disparate views about winning.
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Justin
by L. J. Alonge
Harboring few greater ambitions than to earn a prestigious rating in his favorite video game, Justin unexpectedly becomes a member of a crackerjack pick-up basketball team comprised of five kids from urban Oakland during the course of a hot summer.
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Between the lines
by Nikki Grimes
A companion to the Coretta Scott King Award-winning Bronx Masquerade follows an aspiring journalist's participation in a poetry class that he hopes will help him write more expressively, an endeavor that reveals the challenges being faced by his classmates, from intolerance and bullying to health problems and dysfunctional family lives.
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Target
by Patrick Jones
When seventeen-year-old Frankie Skinaway's incarcerated father and cousins try to get him involved in the First Nations Mafia, even after his mother enrolls Frankie in an alternative high school to keep him safe, Frankie has a hard choice to make.
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Returning to normal
by Patrick Jones
When Xavier's father returns to Boston after serving ten years in federal prison, tensions quickly mount and Xavier's anger explodes on the baseball field, making it less likely that he will achieve his dream of playing in the major leagues than that he will follow his father's path.
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No way out
by Peggy Kern
With his sick grandmother's medical bills mounting and a social worker threatening to put him in a foster home because his grandmother can no longer take him of him, Bluford High freshman Harold David reluctantly agrees to work for the neighborhood drug dealer to pay the bills.
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The bully
by Paul Langan
After Darrell Mercer and his mother move from Philadelphia to California in the middle of the school year, the ninth-grader quickly becomes a target for the freshman class bully, Tyray Hobbs
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Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass
by Meg Medina
Informed that a bully she does not know is determined to beat her up because of her pale skin, good grades and lack of accent, Latin American teen Piddy struggles to stay on top of a busy work schedule and learn more about the father she has never met until the bully's gang forces her to confront more difficult challenges. By the award-winning author of The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind.
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My own worst frenemy : a Langdon Prep novel
by Kimberly Reid
After trouble in the 'hood, Chanti Evans is enrolled at Langdon Prep by her vice cop mom, and from the beginning, Chanti finds herself in trouble--making enemies with the headmistress and being set up for a burglary she didn't commit.
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When I was the greatest
by Jason Reynolds
Living in a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, Ali, his sister, and their neighbors stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one of them gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.
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X : a novel
by Ilyasah Shabazz
Co-written by the best-selling author of Malcolm Little and daughter of Malcolm X, a novel based her father's formative years describes his father's murder, his mother's imprisonment and his challenging effort to pursue an education in law.
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The hate u give
by Angie Thomas
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 and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. Itcould also endanger her life.
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