Walter Dean Myers
61) Street love
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated.
62) Looking like me
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Jeremy sets out to discover all of the different "people" that make him who he is, including brother, son, writer, and runner.
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship.
65) Crystal
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Crystal has difficulty trying to reconcile her personal and school life with the sexy, sophisticated persona her career as a quickly advancing high-fashion model has forced upon her.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of love, such as a dying father's determination to help start a family business--a beauty salon--and the relationship of two teens who plan to remain celibate until they marry.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
A retelling of six stories from the Old Testament, which explore the complexity of love from the perspective of Ruth, Delilah, Reuben, Isaac, Gamiel, and Zillah.
69) Blues journey
Author
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
[2005, c2003]
Language
English
Description
A blues poem that revisits the history of the African American experience.
72) Monster
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 420L
Language
English
Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
From basketball dreams and family fiascos to first crushes and new neighborhoods, this anthology, written by award-winning children's authors, celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us.
74) Fresh ink
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
"An anthology featuring award-winning diverse authors about diverse characters. Short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play explore such topics as gentrification, acceptance, untimely death, coming out, and poverty, and range in genre from contemporary realistic fiction to adventure and romance"--