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2) Monster
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Language
English
Description
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.
4) Slam!
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English
Description
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.
6) Street love
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Language
English
Description
This story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated.
7) Glory Field
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Series
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English
Description
This is the story of one family whose history saw slavery at its very rawness. It is a story of pride, determination, struggle and hope. And of the piece of land that holds them together through it all
8) Dope sick
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Language
English
Description
Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices.
10) The Mouse rap
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English
Description
During an eventful summer in Harlem, fourteen-year-old Mouse and his friends fall in and out of love and search for a hidden treasure from the days of Al Capone. It's summertime in Harlem, and The Mouse (as he calls himself) and his friends look beyond dance contests and basketball for diversion. The rumor of a huge cash stash in an abandoned building in Harlem left by gangster Tiger Moran in 1930 offers possibilities. Each chapter begins with a rap...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
Description
One street. One block. Ten unforgettable stories. Some of these stories are the ones behind the headlines, the lives that go on after the facts fade from the news. Others are private, even mysterious. Salty, wrenchingly honest, here are stories whose characters jump off the page to pull readers into their lives.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of love, such as a dying father's determination to help start a family business--a beauty salon--and the relationship of two teens who plan to remain celibate until they marry.