No Way Out
Afraid of being taken from his grandmother and placed in a foster home, Harold Davis, a Bluford High freshman, begins to work for the neighborhood drug dealer, Londell James, but Harold's choice leads him to world more dangerous than he could have imagined.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 76
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 580
subjects: high school students, problem families, african americans [X], drug dealers, school, family life [X], school stories [X], family problems, dysfunctional families [X]
Like Vanessa
It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first African American Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but the odds are against her until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 35
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: williams, vanessa, african american girls, beauty contests, dysfunctional families [X], urban schools, self-confidence, nineteen eighties, african americans [X], family problems, family life [X], schools, newark (n.j.), historical fiction, school stories [X], children's audiobooks
Harbor Me
"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 120
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: hispanic americans, african americans [X], schools, dysfunctional families [X], friendship, large type books, family problems, family life [X], school stories [X], children's audiobooks, latinos (u.s.), families, juvenile fiction / people & places / united states / african american, juvenile fiction / family / general (see also headings under social issues), juvenile fiction / social issues / adolescence