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A Summer of Kings

Han Nolan

Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to li

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Rooftop

Paul Volponi

Still reeling from seeing police shoot his unarmed cousin to death on the roof of a New York City housing project, seventeen-year-old Clay is dragged into the whirlwind of political manipulation that

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Rebound

Bob Krech

Determined to make the varsity basketball team, seventeen-year-old Ray finds his efforts to play both hindered and helped by the atmosphere of racism in his town.

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Freedom Walkers

Russell Freedman

Presents the story of the Montgomery bus boycott and the key persons and events that contributed to the year-long struggle for equal rights on Montgomery's city buses.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Scout Finch, the young daughter of a local attorney in the Deep South during the 1930s, tells of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with the rape of a white girl.

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Target

Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson

After being brutally raped, Grady finally goes to a new high school where he meets an outgoing African American and several other students who try to help him deal with the horrible secret that is rob

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Black and White

Paul Volponi

Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught.

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Indian Killer

Sherman Alexie

A murderer, dubbed the Indian Killer, is stalking and scalping white men in Seattle, and John Smith, a Native American man who was adopted by a white couple at birth and who is slowly descending into

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Remember

Toni Morrison

Text and photographs introduce the history of school desegregation in the United States.

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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

Gary D. Schmidt

In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that t

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