James Patterson and Kwame Alexander tackle the life of Cassius Clay before he became Muhammad Ali in this novel that mixes prose and verse.īlackout. 2020, Little, Brown & Company/JIMMY Patterson Books. After Artie finds out her mother is a werewolf and that she lost her father to vampires, she must then battle vampires to save her friends and new wolf family while trying to practice her own potential wolf abilities.īecoming Muhammad Ali. Lerner Publishing Group/Graphic Universe.
Jay deals with acne, acne medicine side effects, friend drama, and figuring out romantic feelings, during a tumultuous eighth grade year.Īrtie and the Wolf Moon. HarperCollins Children's Books/Harper Alley. Amari must use all her smarts and her heart to find out what really happened.Ī-Okay. A briefcase in his closet leads her to a magical world-and the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, the place Quinton was working when he disappeared. She has to survive natural disasters, the elements, looters, wild animals, and her own crushing loneliness.Īmari and the Night Brothers. Maddie finds herself completely, totally alone when she wakes up from a secret sleepover and discovers that everyone was evacuated overnight from her town, her state, and maybe her whole half of the country. One hundred years later, Across the Tracks pays homage to Greenwood.Īlone. In 1921, a white mob descended on Greenwood, destroying businesses and devastating the community. Greenwood-also known as Black Wall Street-was a bustling district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with many successful Black-owned businesses.
The members of the 2022 Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers Blogging Team are: Coordinator Molly Dettmann, Norman North High School, Norman, OK Megan Baird, Main Library-Yuma County Library District, Yuma, AZ Diana Ford, Severn School, Severna Park, MD Laura Indick, Berkeley Carroll Middle School, Brooklyn, NY Jayna Ramsey, Belmar Library - Jefferson County Public Library, Lakewood, CO Ness Shortley, George Moses Horton Middle School, Pittsboro, NC Sarah Sullivan, Nevins Memorial Library, Methuen, MA Jennifer Sutton, Lake Park High School-East Campus, Roselle, IL Carolyn Vidmar, Baltimore, MD Emily Williams, Metropolitan Library System, Oklahoma City, OK and with the help of administrative assistant Molly Moore, Forsyth County Public Library, Cumming, GA.Īcross the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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