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Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper |
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death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile
accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving
the car, and many others in the school. 180 pages. (F DRA) |
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The First Part Last by Angela Johnson |
| Bobby's carefree
teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care
for his adored baby daughter. 132 pages. (F JOH Bestseller Section) |
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Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers |
| Seventeen-year-old
Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the
Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active
duty in Vietnam. 309 pages. (F MYE) |
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Slam! by Walter Dean Myers |
Sixteen-year-old
"Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball
talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to
succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently. 266 pages.
(F MYE) |
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Chanda's Secrets by Allan Stratton |
| Chandra Kabelo, a sixteen-year-old in a small South African town, faces down shame and stigma in her efforts to help friends and family members who are dying of AIDS. 193 pages. (F STR) | |
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Monster by Walter Dean Myers |
| 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. 281 pages. (F MYE) | |
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The Other Side of Truth by Beverly Naidoo |
Smuggled out of
Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother
are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the
airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what
may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria. 252
pages (F NAI) |
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker |
Tells
the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary
in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium
of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate
letters she begins, "Dear God." 288 pages. (F WAL) |
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