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1) Pride
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Back home in Brooklyn, fifteen-year-old Viola has big summer plans but with one best friend going to camp and the other not only working but experiencing her first crush, Viola is glad to be overworked as an unpaid lighting intern when her grandmother's play goes to Broadway.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
4) Sparrow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Sparrow Cooke of Brooklyn has always been the kind of child who prefers reading books to playing with friends (not that she has many of those) and since fifth grade the one person who seemed to understand her was the school librarian--so when Mrs. Wexler was killed in an accident Sparrow's world came apart, and when she was found on the edge of the school roof everyone assumed that it was a suicide attempt, which Sparrow denies,...
5) Vinyl moon
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A teen girl reeling from the scars of a past relationship finds healing and hope in the words of strong Black writers and the new community she builds in Brooklyn, New York--
7) The takedown
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this near-future mystery, Kyla Cheng, the smartest, hottest, most popular student at her Brooklyn high school, gets taken down a peg by a faked sex tape that goes viral"--
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