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King's older brother Khalid has died and King is convinced that he's appearing in the form of a dragonfly now. Right before he died,...

Two brothers are home alone while their survivalist father is out of town, and the power goes off. Everywhere. The brothers aren't too...

This book is about 12 year old Indian Asha and her best African friend, Yesofu. When the president of their country decides that all...

This book takes place in a time when colored students were trying to integrate into whites only schools. This is the story about 1 of the...

Petra lives in a lighthouse next to the sea during the first year of the second world war. She has a very courageous older sister named...

Shayla is in seventh grade and has two best friends who call themselves the United Nations, because of their different ethnic...

Donte and his older brother Trey have just moved to a new small town and are attending a prestigious private school, but Donte doesn't...

This book is about this quiet girl who made a friend with a colored girl. This book was set in 1958 in Little Rock Arkansas and were...

Jasmine Warga's novel in verse was a decent audiobook. I enjoyed hearing the words that I wouldn't have known how to pronounce otherwise....

This is the autobiography of Katherine Johnson research mathmatition at NASA. She excelled at math at a young age. She skipped several...

Finn is a 12 year old boy, whose twin sister supposedly drowned in a lake, and his mom up and left him and his dad a few months before...

Never Caught is the story of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's slave. Ona was born into slavery and was the personal slave of...

Allies is about the fictional characters, based off of real people, fighting on d-day in world war ll. The story of Dee; a soldier from...

What would you do if you found out the women in your family could time travel? Faced with the tragedies of his younger sister drowning...

Shayla is starting 7th grade with her two best friends by her side. They call themselves the United Nations because Shayla is Black,...

In typical Gratz style, this novel interweaves several storylines with characters from all over the world coming together as Allies to...

As Clea starts seventh grade, she is falling behind and overwhelmed with her schoolwork, but she absolutely loves to play chess and wants...

I listened to this audiobook and it is lengthy. I might have done better reading this one instead. The premise is gruesome - Ella's ugly...

Main storyline- Four stars... But all the cricket game playing and terminology was too much for this girl. I admit I had to gloss over a...

Genesis is used to moving around. She knows her dad struggles - with keeping a job, with alcoholism, with kindness. Her mom works hard...