Sharon M Draper
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Language
English
Description
Stella lives in the segregated South -- in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. Some stores she can go into. Some stores she can't. Some folks are right pleasant. Others are a lot less so. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn't bothered them for years. But one late night, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something they're never supposed to see, something...
2) Double Dutch
Author
Language
English
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Description
Three eighth-grade friends, preparing for the International Double Dutch Championship jump rope competition in their home town of Cincinnati, Ohio, cope with Randy's missing father, Delia's inability to read, and Yo Yo's encounter with the class bullies.
Author
Series
Hazelwood High trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved. When Gerald was a child he was fascinated by fire. But fire is dangerous and powerful, and tragedy strikes. His substance-addicted mother is taken from him. Then he loses the loving generosity of a favorite aunt. A brutal stepfather with a flaming temper and an evil secret...
Author
Series
Out of my mind volume 1
Language
English
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NYT - Children’s Middle Grade
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NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Paperback
NYT - Children’s Paperback Books
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
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A brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy, considered by many to be mentally retarded, discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
5) Blended
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
Author
Series
Out of my mind volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Because she loves horses but is scared of them, Melody wants to conquer her fears, so she hopes a summer camp will be the place to welcome someone with cerebral palsy who wants to learn to ride.
Author
Series
Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
After the neighborhood basketball court is vandalized, Ziggy and his friends decide to form a club called the Black Dinosaurs and build their clubhouse in Ziggy's backyard.
Author
Series
Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
After their counselor told them a story about spirits in the woods near their campsite, Ziggy and his friends get lost in that very place. Ziggy and his Black Dinosaur pals are excited about their overnight camping trip to Caesar's Creek State Park -- it was named after an ex-slave who later became a Shawnee chief! Their camping counselor is descended from Caesar, and she fills the campers' imaginations with intriguing but sometimes spooky stories...