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Gabriel's journey / Alison Hart.
Hart, Alison,

Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: F Har       Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781561454426 (reinforced) :
Pub. Info: Atlanta [Ga.] : Peachtree, c2007.
Target Audience: 7-11.

Thirteen-year-old Gabriel, a former slave, leaves behind his life as a professional jockey and joins his father in the Fifth U.S. Colored Cavalry at Camp Nelson, Kentucky.
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Small steps / Louis Sachar.
Sachar, Louis,

Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: F Sac       Collection: TX
ISBN: 0385733143 :
Pub. Info: New York : Delacorte Press, 2006.
Target Audience: 690 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.2 7.0 102722 IN

Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.
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Sparrow / Sherri L. Smith.
Smith, Sherri L.

Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: F Smi       Collection: TX
ISBN: 9780385733243
Pub. Info: New York : Delacorte Press, c2006.

After the death of the beloved grandmother who raised her, high-school student Kendall Washington travels to New Orleans expecting to be taken in by her only living relative, an aunt, but the reunion does not go as planned.


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When the black girl sings / Bil Wright.
Wright, Bil.

Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: F Wri       Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781416939955 (hardcover : alk. paper) :
Pub. Info: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2008.
Target Audience: 9 & up. Ages 12 up.

Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive Connecticut girls' school where she is the only black student, fourteen-year-old Lahni Schuler feels like an outcast, particularly when her parents separate, but after attending a local church where she hears gospel music for the first time, she finds her voice.
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Until we meet again / Anne Schraff.
Schraff, Anne E.

Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: F Sch       Collection: TX
ISBN: 0944210074 :
Pub. Info: West Berlin, N.J. : Townsend Press, c2002.
Target Audience: 740 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.8 4.0 78149 IN

A series of unexpected events shatter Darcy's plans for a peaceful summer and may change her life forever.
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Blood is thicker / Paul Langan, D. M. Blackwell.
Langan, Paul.

Branch: 0033
Call Number: F Lan       Collection: TX
ISBN: 1591940168
Pub. Info: West Berlin, NJ : Townsend Press, 2004.
Target Audience: 730 Lexile.

Hakeem's father gets sick and the family can't afford their home anymore. The family moves to Detroit and Hakeem has to share a room with his cousin who becomes his enemy.
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Gabriel's triumph / Alison Hart.
Hart, Alison,

Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: F Har       Collection: TX
ISBN: 9781156454105 (reinforced) :
Pub. Info: Atlanta, Ga. : Peachtree, c2007.
Target Audience: 7-11.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader MG 4.6 6

A thirteen-year-old newly-freed slave faces the challenges of freedom and horse racing as he pursues his dream of becoming a famous jockey in Civil War Kentucky and New York.
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Behind you / Jacqueline Woodson.
Woodson, Jacqueline.

Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: F Woo       Collection: TX
ISBN: 039923988X
Pub. Info: New York : Putnam's, c2004.
Target Audience: Young Adult Follett Library Resources. 720 Lexile.

After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that 'Miah is watching over them.
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Yolonda's genius / Carol Fenner.
Fenner, Carol.

Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: F Fen       Collection: TX
ISBN: 0689813279 :
Pub. Info: New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1997, c1995.
Target Audience: 710 Lexile.
Study Program Note: Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.8 6.0 14840 0033

After moving from Chicago to Grand River, Michigan, fifth grader Yolonda, big and strong for her age, determines to prove that her younger brother is not a slow learner but a true musical genius.
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The beast / Walter Dean Myers.
Myers, Walter Dean,

Branch: 0033
Location: Valley
Call Number: F Mye       Collection: TX
ISBN: 0439368413
Pub. Info: New York : Scholastic, 2003.
Target Audience: Young Adult Follett Library Resources. 680 Lexile.

A teenager from Harlem struggles to save his girlfriend from herself when she develops a drug problem while he is away at a Connecticut prep school.
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