PATTERSON HEIGHTS by Felicia Pride
Posted by Daniel on December 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Avery Washington has spent his entire life in Patterson Heights, a Baltimore neighborhood with a mean rep. It’s a good place to grow up—it has heart and soul as well as a few street hustlers, and plenty of solid families just like his. Then one day, his older brother Rashid ends up in the wrong [...]
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INDIGO SUMMER by Monica McKayhan
Fifteen-year-old Indigo Summer’s world finally seems to be going in the right direction: She hooks up with the star linebacker on the high-school football team, gets a date for homecoming and makes the high-school dance squad all in the same week. But sometimes things are just too good to be true. After football star Quincy [...]
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DIRTY SOUTH by Phillip Thomas Duck
Posted by Daniel on August 31, 2009 · Leave a Comment
College is a big adjustment—but not if you’re Kenya Posey. Even at a Southern school far from her Jersey turf, she’s the one the girls envy and the boys want. Kenya’s the star of a hot singing/dancing troupe, her high-school BFF Lark is on campus—could things get any better?
For Lark, the answer is yes. While [...]
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SHE SAID, SHE SAID by Celeste O. Norfleet
Posted by Daniel on August 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Can you ground your mother? On the last day of school, Tamika’s boyfriend dumps her, her best friend moves away and she’s forced to go on a lame mother-daughter trip to her grandmother’s house. She can barely handle one minute with her controlling, critical mom. But when they arrive, her life gets even worse! Her [...]
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SPIN IT LIKE THAT by Chandra Sparks Taylor
Posted by Daniel on August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Sixteen-year-old Jasmine Richardson has a love for music. When She gets on the turntables, her gift for spinning and rhyming earn her admiration and respect. She’s also talented academically, but her parents disapprove of their daughter’s hobby, hoping that it’s a phase she’s going through. Still, Jasmine finds it hard to deny the joy and [...]
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THE PLEDGE by Chandra Sparks Taylor
Posted by Daniel on August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
If you really loved me, you’d…
Raised in a strict household, sixteen-year-old Courtland Murphy never had a date. But that was before the guy of her every dream – basketball star Allen Benson – asked her. She’s gone from never-been-kissed to dating the hottest guy in school. And now her new boyfriend is pressuring her to [...]
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FIRST SEMESTER by Cecil R. Cross
Posted by Daniel on August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
James “JD” Dawson grew up in the hood, but left a life of violence three thousand miles behind to make something of himself at the University of Atlanta. But when the freshman got off to a fool’s start – kicking it with his new homeboys, showing up late for class, not studying and checking out [...]
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FAST FORWARD by Celeste Norfleet
Posted by Daniel on August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
How did Kenisha Lewis’s life go from near perfect to sheer chaos in just a few months? Coping with family tragedy is tough enough without getting kicked out of private school and sent to the local public school, where she’s forced to make some major adjustments. New friends (and enemies), new clothes, a hot new [...]
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HOW TO SALSA IN A SARI by Dona Sarkar
Posted by Daniel on August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
First, Issa Mazumder’s nerdy boyfriend dumps her for popular Latina princess Cat Morena – as if Cat even likes him. She just hates Issa. And for good reason: Issa finds out that her mother not only has been dating Cat’s dad, but is going to marry him. That means they’re moving to Cat’s huge house. [...]
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