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1) Light it up
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators.
3) Ghost boys
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceano expraes
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
Author
Series
The hate u give volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
When a woman--known only as Mother--moves her family from Atlanta to its wealthy suburbs, she discovers that neither the times nor the people have changed since her childhood in a small Southern town. Despite the intervening decades, Mother is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No, where are you really from? The American-born daughter of Bengali immigrants, she finds that her answer-- Here --is never enough. Mother's simmering anger...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event-a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives. Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions....
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