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Accelerated Reader MG 4.6 8 512804 |
| Contents |
Griot of Grover Street: part one / Kwame Mbalia -- There's going to be a fight in the cafeteria on Friday and you better not bring Batman / Lamar Giles -- McCoy game / B.B. Alston -- Legendary Lawrence Cobbler / Julian Winters -- First-day fly / Jason Reynolds -- Got me a jet pack / Don P. Hooper -- Extinct / Dean Atta -- Epic venture / Jay Coles -- Definition of cool / Varian Johnson -- Griot of Grover Street: part two / Kwame Mbalia -- Five thousand light-years to home / Suyi Davies Okungbowa -- Coping / Tochi Onyebuchi -- Gender reveal / George M. Johnson -- Kassius's foolproof guide to losing the Turkey Bowl / Davaurn Sanders -- But also, Jazz / Julian Randall -- Our dill / Justin A. Reynolds -- Percival and the jab / P. Djèlí Clark -- Embracing my Black boy joy / Jerry Craft -- Grit of Grover Street: part three / Kwame Mbalia. |
| Summary |
Black boy joy is...Picking out a fresh first-day-of-school outfit. Saving the universe in an epic intergalactic race. Finding your voiceand your rhymesduring tough times. Flying on your skateboard like nobodys watching. And more! From seventeen acclaimed Black male and non-binary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood."-- Amazon.com. |
| Audience |
710L Lexile |
| Subject |
African American boys -- Juvenile fiction.
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African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
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Boys -- Juvenile fiction.
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African Americans -- Literary collections.
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Boys -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- African American authors.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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| Add'l Names |
Mbalia, Kwame, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780593379936
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0593379934
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