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Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A 2018 William C. Morris Award Finalist
Killing isn't supposed to be easy. But it is. It's the after that's hard to deal with.
Nate was eight the first time he stabbed someone; he was eleven when he earned his red laces—a prize for spilling blood for "the cause." And he was fourteen when he murdered his father (and the leader of The Fort, a notorious white supremacist compound) in self-defense, landing in a treatment center...
Killing isn't supposed to be easy. But it is. It's the after that's hard to deal with.
Nate was eight the first time he stabbed someone; he was eleven when he earned his red laces—a prize for spilling blood for "the cause." And he was fourteen when he murdered his father (and the leader of The Fort, a notorious white supremacist compound) in self-defense, landing in a treatment center...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Anthony "Ant" Jones from the ghetto of East Cleveland, Ohio, gets a scholarship to a prep school in Maine, he finds that he must change his image and adapt to a world that never fully accepts him, but when he goes home he discovers that he no longer truly belongs there either.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
10) Home girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Naomi's life takes a dramatic turn when she is placed with a black foster care family.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
Language
English
Description
"Ernest J. Gaines's new novella revolves around a courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order. After Brady Sims pulls out a gun in a courtroom and shoots his own son, who has just been convicted of robbery and murder, he asks only to be allowed two hours before he'll give himself up...
12) Say their names
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition hardcover.
Language
English
Description
"Seven-year-old Aliya sees the public reaction to recent and tragic events on TV news. Determined to make sure the lives of those lost matter, she leads her own protest march that extends beyond her living room and into her neighborhood to 'say their names' and loudly proclaim 'good people come in all colors'"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Strange truth novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Benny and Virginia investigate when the student body president is maimed during Winship Academy's science expo in what may have been an accident, while a mystery man was handing out drugs.
Benny and Virginia investigate when the student body president is maimed during Winship Academy's science expo . Was it an accident or an attack? And what about the anonymous boy in the girls' bathroom handing out drugs to anyone with the secret password? As the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Coming-of-age story following eighteen-year-old Adrian Carter as he graduates from high school and confronts difficult decisions about his future. Dealing with important themes (a desire for independence, identity, first love, familial tensions) from the nuanced perspective of a biracial teen, this story tackles key contemporary social issues: class differences, colourism in the Black community and the structural barriers limiting access to post-secondary...
15) Alligator bayou
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn.
16) Alice in charge
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 22
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Along with the usual concerns of senior year in high school, Alice faces some very difficult situations, including vandalism by a group of Neo-Nazis and a friend's confession that a teacher has been taking advantage of her.
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