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When You Look Like Us
by Pamela N. Harris
When you look like us-brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades-everyone else thinks you're trouble. No one even blinks twice over a missing black girl from public housing because she must've brought whatever happened to her upon herself. I, Jay Murphy, can admit that, for a minute, I thought my sister Nicole just got caught up with her boyfriend-a drug dealer-and his friends. But she's been gone too long. Nic, where are you? If I hadn't hung up on her that night, she would be at our house, spending time with Grandma. If I was a better brother, she'd be finishing senior year instead of being another name on a missing persons list. It's time to step up, to do what the Newport News police department won't. Bring her home
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2023 Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production for Young Adults
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The Honeys
by Ryan La Sala
After his twin sister Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars takes her place at the elite Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy where he finds himself hunted by something toying with his mind that leads him to the Honeys, a group of beautiful --and terrifying-- girls.
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff
by Paul Galdone
Three clever billy goats outwit a big ugly troll that lives under the bridge they must cross on their way up the mountain.
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Demon in the Wood: A Shadow and Bone Graphic Novel
by Leigh Bardugo
In this graphic novel prequel to the international Netflix sensation Shadow and Bone, Eryk and his mother, the deadliest and rarest of their kind, must hide their true abilities wherever they go, but they soon discover deadly secrets have a way of revealing themselves.
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Inheritance: A Visual Poem
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Interweaving a powerful message of self-love, an award-winning author and poet celebrates the beauty and meaning of natural Black hair through her most famous spoken-word poem brought to a lushly illustrated picture book form.
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