TITLE: Legendborn
AUTHOR: Tracy Deonn CALL NUMBER: FIC Deo - FANTASY SUMMARY: To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights. |
TITLE: Genesis Begins Again
AUTHOR: Alicia Williams CALL NUMBER: FIC Wil - NOVELS SUMMARY: Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is. |
TITLE: Piecing Me Together
AUTHOR: Renée Watson CALL NUMBER: FIC Wat - NOVELS SUMMARY: Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls. |
TITLE: March: Book Three
AUTHOR: John Lewis CALL NUMBER: 323 Lew - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A graphic novel account of some pivotal moments in the Civil Rights Movement. |
TITLE: The Sun Is Also a Star
AUTHOR: Nicola Yoon CALL NUMBER: FIC Yoo - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Natasha, whose family is hours away from being deported, and Daniel, a first generation Korean American who strives to live up to his parents' expectations, unexpectedly fall in love and must determine which path they will choose in order to be together. |
TITLE: Brown Girl Dreaming
AUTHOR: Jacqueline Woodson CALL NUMBER: 921 Woo SUMMARY: The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South. |
TITLE: The Boy in the Black Suit
AUTHOR: Jason Reynolds CALL NUMBER: FIC Rey - NOVELS SUMMARY: Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man. |
TITLE: One Crazy Summer
AUTHOR: Rita Williams-Garcia CALL NUMBER: FIC Wil - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: After travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, Delphine and her two sisters discover that their mother, a dedicated poet, wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp. |
TITLE: Day of Tears
AUTHOR: Julius Lester CALL NUMBER: FIC Les - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Presents an historical fiction written in first-person format that follows Emma, the slave of Pierce Butler, through a series of events in her life as her master hosts the largest slave auction in American history in Savannah, Georgia in 1859 in order to pay off his mounting gambling debts. |