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(0)Angie Thomas
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"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
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Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time. This leaves him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his baby momma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
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Nic Blake and the Remarkables volume 1
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"It's not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are cool--like getting a pet hellhound for your twelfth birthday. Others, not so much--like not being trusted to learn magic because you might use it to take revenge on an annoying neighbor. All Nic Blake wants is to be a powerful Manifestor like her dad. But before she has a chance to convince him to teach her the gift, a series of shocking revelations and terrifying events...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2019]
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English
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Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr tries to find her voice in order to stand up for what's right.
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After enduring his father's suicide, his own suicide attempt, broken friendships, and more in the Bronx projects, Aaron Soto, sixteen, is already considering the Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure when his new friendship with Thomas turns to unrequited love.
7) Blackout
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2021]
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English
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"Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark"--
8) Whiteout
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2022]
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English
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Atlanta is blanketed with snow just before Christmas, but the warmth of young love just might melt the ice in this novel of Black joy, and cozy, sparkling romance -- by the same unbeatable team of authors who wrote the New York Times bestseller Blackout! is the city grinds to a halt, twelve teens band together to help a friend pull off the most epic apology of her life. But will they be able to make it happen, in spite of the storm? No one is prepared...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teens in love to this charming, hilarious, and heartwarming novel that shines a bright light through the dark.
A summer heatwave blankets New York City in darkness. But as the city is thrown into confusion, a different kind of electricity sparks...
A first meeting.
Long-time friends.
Bitter
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Montena
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2021.
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Español
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"Una sofocante ola de calor deja a la ciudad de Nueva York sumida en un apag̤n, pero en medio de la noche m̀s c̀lida y oscura, otro tipo de chispas brillar̀n en la ciudad. Un primer encuentro. Amigos de toda la vida. Ex amargados. Y quiz̀... el inicio de algo nuevo. Cuando las luces se apagan, los sentimientos m̀s profundos salen a la luz: el amor florece, la amistad se transforma en algo nuevo y todas las posibilidades tienen una oportunidad...
12) On the come up
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Paramount
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[2023]
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English
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Brianna Jackson is a sixteen-year-old gifted rapper who attempts to take the battle rap scene by storm to lift her family and do right by the legacy of her father a local hip-hop legend whose career was cut short by gang violence. But when her first hit song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, she finds herself torn between the authenticity that got her this far and the false persona that the industry wants to impose upon her. Based on the New York...
