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21) Blues Journey
Author
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The opening line of this call and response style verse asks the question that forms the thread throughout – Blues, what you mean to me? In a magnificent collaboration of words, art, and song, a timeline of the blues is presented in a soulful reading and dramatic musical accompaniment that offers a compelling evocation of the blues experience. A Live Oak Media audio production.
22) Slam!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Greg "Slam" Harris can do it all on the basketball court. He's seen ballplayers come and go, and he knows he could be one of the lucky ones. Maybe he'll make it to the top. Or maybe he'll stumble along the way. Slam's grades aren't that hot. And when his teachers jam his troubles in his face, he blows up. Slam never doubted himself on the court until he found himself going one-on-one with his own future, and he didn't have the ball....
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Martyr. Prophet. Hustler. Dealer. Troublemaker. Revolutionary. A BIOGRAPHY BY As a fourteen-year-old he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student. At sixteen he
was hustling tips at a Boston nightclub. In Harlem he was known as Detroit Red, a slick street operator. At
nineteen he was back in Boston, leading a gang of burglars. At twenty he was in prison. It was in prison that Malcolm Little started the journey that would lead...
24) Shooter
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The groundbreaking and widely praised novel about a school shooting, from the acclaimed author of Monster. Multiple narratives, a personal journal, and newspaper and police reports add perspective and pull readers into the story.
""Questions of guilt and innocence drive the plot and stay with the reader,"" said Hazel Rochman in a starred Booklist review. ""Highly readable.""
""A haunting story that uncovers the pain
...Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
28) Hoops
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1983], c1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake.
31) Oh, snap!
Author
Series
Cruisers volume 4
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When their journalistic counterparts at a school in England begin to add incriminating photographs to their articles, the Cruisers and students at Harlem's DaVinci Academy realize that words and pictures do not always tell the whole story.
32) A star is born
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Zander's play, Act Six, brings Da Vinci Academy into the spotlight, especially when LaShonda's costume designs win her an opportunity she can accept only if she is willing to leave her autistic brother and their group home behind.
33) Juba!: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged retail edition.
Language
English
Description
An engaging historical novel based on the true story of the meteoric rise of an immensely talented young black dancer, William Henry Lane, who influenced today's tap, jazz, and step dancing. With meticulous and intensive research, Walter Dean Myers has brought to life Juba's story.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.
36) Harlem: a poem
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A poem celebrating the people, sights, and sounds of Harlem.
Author
Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first collection of King’s essential writings for high school students and young people
A Time to Break Silence presents Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most important writings and speeches—carefully selected by teachers across a variety of disciplines—in an accessible and user-friendly volume. Now, for the first time, teachers and students will be able to access Dr. King's writings not only electronically