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• The Davenports

  Marquis, Krystal,

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  The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made through the entrepreneurship of William Davenport, a formerly enslaved man who founded the Davenport Carriage Company years…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If I Ever Get Out of Here

  a Novel With Paintings

  Gansworth, Eric, 1965-

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  Lewis is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white people being nice to him -- people like George…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Downstairs Girl

  Lee, Stacey (Stacey Heather),

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  By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, "Dear Miss…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Not Free

  Chee, Traci,

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  The collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II. Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• X

  a Novel

  Shabazz, Ilyasah

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  Cowritten by Malcolm X's daughter, this riveting novel follows the formative years of the man whose words and actions shook the world. Malcolm Little's parents have always told him that he can achieve anything, but from what he can tell, that's a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Butterfly Yellow

  Lại, Thanhhà

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  In the final days of the Việt Nam War, Hằng takes her little brother, Linh, to the airport, determined to find a way to safety in America. In a split second, Linh is ripped from her arms--and Hằng is left behind in the war-torn country.

• Burn Baby Burn

  Medina, Meg,

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  While violence runs rampant throughout New York, a teenage girl faces danger within her own home. Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where the World Ends

  McCaughrean, Geraldine,

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  Every summer Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds. But this summer, no one arrives to take them home. Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they've been abandoned--cold, starving and clinging to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Out of Darkness

  Pérez, Ashley Hope

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  New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Into the Bright Open

  a Secret Garden Remix

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  When a terrible accident leaves Mary orphaned at fifteen, she is sent to the wilderness of the Georgian Bay to live with an uncle she's never met. At first she believes this new manor will be just like the one she left in Toronto: cold, isolating,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lies We Tell Ourselves

  Talley, Robin,

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  In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever. Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jefferson High School. An honors student at her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crossing Ebenezer Creek

  Bolden, Tonya

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  When Mariah and her young brother Zeke are suddenly freed from slavery, they join Sherman's march through Georgia. Mariah wants to believe that the brutalities of slavery are behind them, but even as hope glimmers, there are many hardships yet to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Flygirl

  Smith, Sherri L.

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  Ida Mae Jones dreams of flight. Her daddy was a pilot and being Black didn't stop him from fulfilling his dreams. When America enters the war with Germany and Japan, the Army creates the WASP, the Women's Airforce Service Pilots - and Ida suddenly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death Coming Up the Hill

  Crowe, Chris,

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  It's 1968, and war is not foreign to seventeen-year-old Ashe. When his high school history teacher dares to teach the political realities of the war, Ashe grows to better understand the situation in Vietnam, his family, and the wider world around…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Code Talker

  a Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

  Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-

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  Throughout World War II, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. Joseph Bruchac brings their stories to life through the fictional tale of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love & War

  An Alex & Eliza Story

  De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971-

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  As the war for American Independence carries on, newlyweds Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler are settling into their new adventure- marriage. But Alex is still General George Washington's right-hand man, sent to the front lines at Yorktown, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• African Town

  Inspired by the True Story of the Last American Slave Ship

  Latham, Irene,

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  In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Their journey includes the savage…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

  Lee, Mackenzi

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  Henry "Monty" Montague was bred to be a gentleman. His passions for gambling halls, late nights spent with a bottle of spirits, or waking up in the arms of women or men, have earned the disapproval of his father. His quest for pleasures and vices…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• These Shallow Graves

  Donnelly, Jennifer

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  Jo Montfort is beautiful and rich, and soon she'll graduate from finishing school and be married off to a wealthy bachelor. Which is the last thing she wants. Jo dreams of becoming a newspaper reporter like the trailblazing Nellie Bly. Wild…Read moreRead more of this annotation