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2) Ghost boys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation unleashed on his family and community. This gripping story is about how children, families--and one boy--grow to understand American blackness.
3) Being Clem
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and struggles in 1940's Chicago.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In 1941 Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby, a Polish-American girl from the slums, leaves her meat-packing plant job to be a "taxi" dancer, paid a dime apiece to dance with men in a dance hall, and becomes entangled with the mob.
Author
Series
Friendship garden volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Third-grader Anna has had trouble making friends since her family moved from a small town in New York to Chicago, but a group project at school leads to new opportunities, including friendships, a club, and a garden she can work in, just like in her last home.
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