GLITTER by Babygirl Daniels
Posted by Daniel on January 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Asia Smith walks through her life with a silver spoon in her mouth, thanks to her father, who spares no expense when it comes to his baby girl. But when he dies tragically, her extravagant lifestyle is brought down a notch. She struggles to adjust to her new life with Auntie Joy.
Asia thinks that entering [...]
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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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JOSEPH by Shelia P. Moses
Posted by Daniel on September 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment
For Joseph Flood, life is tough. Tough because of Mama’s addiction to drugs and alcohol. Tough because daddy is away with the army fighting in Iraq. Tough because it looks like there’s no way out once you’re living in a homeless shelter in a North Carolina ghetto neighborhood. And tough because Joseph in enrolled in [...]
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SECRETS IN THE SHADOWS by Anne E. Schraff
Posted by Daniel on September 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Roylin is living a nightmare – and it’s all his fault. It started when the new student, Korie Archer, arrived in his history class. She was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen, and unlike most people at Bluford High, she seemed to like him. But when Roylin tried to impress her, he made [...]
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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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RIKERS HIGH by Paul Volponi
Martin Stokes could hold his own in the tough New York City neighborhood where he grew up, but that’s nothing – nothing – compared to Riker’s Island. Martin’s been in the Riker’s Island jail for five months and counting, locked up for a crime he didn’t even mean to commit.
After his court date is delayed [...]
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