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Every Time a Rainbow Dies

2009-03-17 Young Adult Fiction
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Release : 2009-03-17
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 117/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Every Time a Rainbow Dies by : Rita Williams-Garcia

Download or read book Every Time a Rainbow Dies written by Rita Williams-Garcia. This book was released on 2009-03-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia, Every Time a Rainbow Dies is a moving, lyrical, and diverse love story—perfect for fans of One Crazy Summer who are ready for an older voice. Dreamy Thulani spends most of his time up on the roof, taking care of the flock of doves in the cote and watching the streets of Brooklyn bustle below him. He is up there on the day he sees a girl being brutally attacked in an alley. Though the girl makes it clear she wants nothing more to do with him after he helps her home, he can’t stop thinking about her. Is she okay? What is her name? Would she be scared if he tried to talk to her? Suddenly, for the first time since his mother died, Thulani finally has a reason to come down from the roof. But as much as he wants to care for this girl, Ysa—more fragile and fiercer than his birds—she will not trust easily. Is it possible to shelter someone who needs to be free?

No Laughter Here

2009-10-06 Young Adult Fiction
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Release : 2009-10-06
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 753/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis No Laughter Here by : Rita Williams-Garcia

Download or read book No Laughter Here written by Rita Williams-Garcia. This book was released on 2009-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking novel, Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia uses her vividly realistic voice to highlight an often taboo practice that affects millions of girls around the world every year, and to explore a perspective not often depicted in YA fiction. Even though they were born in different countries, Akilah and Victoria are true best friends. But Victoria has been acting strange ever since she returned from her summer in Nigeria, where she had a special coming-of-age ceremony. Why does proud Victoria, named for a queen, slouch at her desk and answer the teacher's questions in a whisper? And why won't she laugh with Akilah anymore? Akilah's name means "intelligent," and she is determined to find out what's wrong. But when she learns the terrible secret Victoria is hiding, she suddenly has even more questions. The only problem is, they might not be the kind that have answers.

If You Come Softly

2006-06-22 Young Adult Fiction
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Release : 2006-06-22
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 976/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis If You Come Softly by : Jacqueline Woodson

Download or read book If You Come Softly written by Jacqueline Woodson. This book was released on 2006-06-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical story of star-crossed love perfect for readers of The Hate U Give, by National Ambassador for Children’s Literature Jacqueline Woodson--now celebrating its twentieth anniversary, and including a new preface by the author Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. That is, when he's in his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But now he's going to be attending a fancy prep school in Manhattan, and black teenage boys don't exactly fit in there. So it's a surprise when he meets Ellie the first week of school. In one frozen moment their eyes lock, and after that they know they fit together--even though she's Jewish and he's black. Their worlds are so different, but to them that's not what matters. Too bad the rest of the world has to get in their way. Jacqueline Woodson's work has been called “moving and resonant” (Wall Street Journal) and “gorgeous” (Vanity Fair). If You Come Softly is a powerful story of interracial love that leaves readers wondering "why" and "if only . . ."

Blue Tights

1996 African Americans
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Release : 1996
Genre : African Americans
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 453/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Blue Tights by : Rita Williams-Garcia

Download or read book Blue Tights written by Rita Williams-Garcia. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in a city neighborhood, fifteen-year-old Joyce, unsure of herself and not quite comfortable with her maturing body, tries to find a place to belong and a way to express herself through dance.

One Crazy Summer

2010-01-26 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2010-01-26
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 885/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis One Crazy Summer by : Rita Williams-Garcia

Download or read book One Crazy Summer written by Rita Williams-Garcia. This book was released on 2010-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. Even though her father and Big Ma will send them from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to stay with Cecile for the summer. And even though Delphine will have to take care of her sisters, as usual, and learn the truth about the missing pieces of the past. When the girls arrive in Oakland in the summer of 1968, Cecile wants nothing to do with them. She makes them eat Chinese takeout dinners, forbids them to enter her kitchen, and never explains the strange visitors with Afros and black berets who knock on her door. Rather than spend time with them, Cecile sends Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern to a summer camp sponsored by a revolutionary group, the Black Panthers, where the girls get a radical new education. Set during one of the most tumultuous years in recent American history, one crazy summer is the heartbreaking, funny tale of three girls in search of the mother who abandoned them—an unforgettable story told by a distinguished author of books for children and teens, Rita Williams-Garcia.

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