Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Summary: Zane is itching for an adventure that will take him away from his family's boarding house in Rockaway, Queens. So when he is entrusted with a real treasure map, leading to a spot somewhere in Manhattan, Zane wastes no time in riding the ferry over to the city to start the search with his friends Kiko and Jack and his dog, Hip-Hop. Through strange coincidence, they meet a man who is eager to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: Visiting her grandmother in the Louisiana bayou, ten-year-old Maddy begins to realize that she may be the only sibling to carry on the gift of her family's magical legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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Summary: "Sometimes, 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield prep, most of the students don't look like him. They don't like him either. Dubbing him "Black Brother," Donte's teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter-skinned brother, Trey. When he's bullied and framed by the captain of the fencing team, "King" Alan, he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: Bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes reimagines the classic novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson in this thrilling adventure set in modern-day Manhattan, in which three kids must navigate the city's hidden history, dodge a threatening crew of skater kids, and decide who they can really trust in order to hunt down a long-buried treasure. Three kids. One dog. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2013
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Summary: "Framed. Bullied. Disliked. But I know I can still be the best. Sometimes, 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield Prep, most of the students don't look like him. They don't like him either. Dubbing him "Black Brother," Donte's teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter-skinned brother, Trey. When he's bullied...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: "After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Summary: While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Dèja, who was born after the attacks, realizes how much the events still color her world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Suspended unjustly from elite Middlefield Prep, Donte Ellison studies fencing with a former champion, hoping to put the racist fencing team captain in his place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Summary: Joe Samuels, a young Black man trying to escape being lynched for a rape he did not commit, and Mary Keane, a lonely young white woman fighting to exonerate Joe, embark on individual odysseys of self-discovery, in a story inspired by the 1921 burning of Greenwood, an affluent Black section of Tulsa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2021
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Summary: Bronx middle-grader Addy, who struggles with a family tragedy by drawing maps and studying mazes, joins other city youngsters on a wilderness adventure in California that turns deadly when wildfires erupt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: Follow one girl's journey to discover the joy and history of step dancing- an ode to sisterhood and a strong mother-daughter bond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Summary: "While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Dèja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016