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In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as...
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Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Six years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near crippling panic attacks. Now, in his sophomore year of high school, Moss and his fellow classmates find themselves increasingly treated like criminals in their own school. New rules. Random locker searches. Constant intimidation and Oakland Police Department...
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2023.
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English
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"From the NAACP Image Award-nominated author of Happily Ever Afters comes a dual POV rom-com about Reggie and Delilah, who fall in love through missed connections and chance meetings on holidays over the course of a year. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han, with crossover appeal for readers of Jasmine Guillory and Talia Hibbert romances. Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. She...
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Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, two students at Niveus Private Academy, are selected to be part of the elite school's senior class prefects and struggle against an anonymous bully who reveals all of their secrets.
"All you need to know is . . . I’m here to divide and conquer. Like all great tyrants do. —Aces
When two Niveus Private Academy students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are selected to be part of the elite school’s senior...
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Series
The hate u give volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Deutsch
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"Die 16-jährige Starr Carter bewegt sich zwischen zwei Welten: dem Armenviertel, in dem sie lebt, und der schicken Vorstadt-Vorschule, die sie besucht. Das unsichere Gleichgewicht zwischen diesen Welten wird erschüttert, als Starr Zeuge der tödlichen Erschießung ihres besten Freundes aus Kindertagen, Khalil, durch einen Polizisten wird."
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy...
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