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1) The fight
Author
Series
Drama High volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Jayd Jackson returns to South Bay High, she discovers that her former best friend is out to get her and her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend wants to fight, which forces Jayd to turn to Mama and her bag of tricks for help.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Paul Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle, is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward Black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctant messiah of a 'divided downtrodden people.'" -- page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
Author
Series
Drama High volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Jayd Jackson, happily in a relationship with the coolest white boy ever, deals with her ex-boyfriend, who is trying to break them up, and her best friend Nellie who is causing all sorts of drama as she runs for junior class homecoming Princess against the Athletes and Cheerleaders.
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