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Series
Curlfriends volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER!
2024 Golden Kite Award Winner •An NPR and New York Public LibraryBest Book of the Year
“I want to be friends with them all” — Vashti Harrison, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
New Kid meets The Baby-sitters Club in this graphic novel series opener...
2024 Golden Kite Award Winner •An NPR and New York Public LibraryBest Book of the Year
“I want to be friends with them all” — Vashti Harrison, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
New Kid meets The Baby-sitters Club in this graphic novel series opener...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with a companion book to New Kid, winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize. This time, it's Jordan's friend Drew who takes center stage in another laugh-out-loud funny, powerful, and important story about being one of the few kids of color in a prestigious private school.
Eighth grader Drew Ellis is no
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Science-obsessed Zoe finds herself trapped in one of her favorite monster movies and needs to invent her way out of a disaster while also saving the monster who has become her friend"--
Publisher
Eureka
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Description
"Twenty-three stories and poems by America's earliest black authors, illustrated by contemporary black artists including: authors, Langston Hughes [et al.]; adaptations, Alex Simmons, Christopher Priest, Mat Johnson; illustrators, Afua Richardson [et al.]"--Cover p. [4].
5) Ghost roast
Author
Publisher
Versify, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Chelsea, daughter of a paranormal specialist, risks her hard-won popularity and more when she is drawn into a paranormal romance after discovering her own ability to communicate with ghosts.
Author
Series
Silver Sprocket volume 84
Publisher
Silver Sprocket
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore. Passmore masterfully tackles comics about race, gentrification, the prison system, online dating, gross punks, bad street art, kung fu movie references, beating up God, and lots of other grown-up stuff with refreshing doses of humor and lived relatability.
7) Safe passage
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An epic journey across the South Side of Chicago for Darius, his little sister Cissy, and his best friend Booger as they set out to find an armored truck that has lost a payload of cash"--
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Series
Language
English
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Description
New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay (World of Wakanda, Difficult Women) adapts her short story "We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness" as a full-length graphic novel with writer Tracy Lynne Oliver (This Weekend), and artist Rebecca Kirby (Biopsy.)
Expanding an unforgettable world where a tragic event forever bathes the world in darkness, The Sacrifice of Darkness follows one woman's powerful journey through this new landscape as she discovers...
9) Blackward
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tired of feeling like you don't belong? Join the club. It's called the Section. You'd think a spot to chill, chat, and find community would be much easier to come by for nerdy, queer punks. But when four longtime, bookish BFFs--Lika, Amor, Lala, and Tony--can't find what they need, they take matters into their own hands and create a space where they can be a hundred percent who they are: Black, queer, and weird. The group puts a call out for all...