Sharon Flake
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Taking readers through the minds of girls trying to define themselves while struggling to remain relevant to the boys in their lives, this Coretta Scott King Honor book offers a complex, always on-point exposition of black youth resolving to find self-worth.
Author
Pub. Date
20100201
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 9 stories and 15 poems, Sharon G. Flake provides insight into the minds of a diverse group adolescent African American males. There's Tow-Kaye, getting married at age 16 to love of his life, who's pregnant. He knows it's the right thing to do, but he's scared to death. James writes in his diary about his twin brother's terrible secret, which threatens to pull James down, too. Tyler explains what it's like to be a player with the ladies. In a letter...
Author
Series
The skin I'm in novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Maleeka suffers every day from the taunts of the other kids in her class. If they're not getting at her about her homemade clothes or her good grades, it's about her dark, black skin. When a new teacher, whose face is blotched with a startling white patch, starts at their school, Maleeka can see there is bound to be trouble for her too. But the new teacher's attitude surprises Maleeka. Miss Saunders loves the skin she's in. Can Maleeka learn to do...
5) Money hungry
Author
Series
Raspberry Hill novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again.
6) Pinned
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Adonis is smart, intellectually gifted and born without legs; Autumn is strong, a great wrestler, and barely able to read in ninth grade--but Autumn is attracted to Adonis and determined to make him a part of her life whatever he or her best friend thinks.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1953 ten-year-old Octobia May lives in her Aunt's boarding house in the South, surrounded by an African American community which has its own secrets and internal racism, and spends her days wondering if Mr. Davenport in room 204 is really a vampire--or something else entirely.
Author
Series
Duck and Cat books volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Cat thinks Duck should stop meowing and start acting like a duck, but Duck doesn't want to be limited to acting like just one animal.
Author
Series
The skin I'm in novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
The powerful and long-anticipated companion to The Skin I'm In, Sharon Flake's bestselling modern classic, presents the unflinching story of Char, a young woman trapped in the underworld of human trafficking.
Author
Series
Duck and Cat books volume 2
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Best friends Duck and Cat have a problem -- Cat makes Duck sneeze! 'I think-achoo!-I'm allergic to you,' Duck declares. Hilarity ensues as Cat keeps trying to solve the problem -- but Duck keeps sneezing! Is Duck really allergic to Cat or is something else going on?" --
12) Fresh ink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"An anthology featuring award-winning diverse authors about diverse characters. Short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play explore such topics as gentrification, acceptance, untimely death, coming out, and poverty, and range in genre from contemporary realistic fiction to adventure and romance"--