Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers

"I hope you mess this up! I hope you blow it bigtime! You're supposed to be smart. You think you're smart, right?"

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Summary: Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.


Amistad; 247 pages

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

"Good thing the plane had seat belts and we'd been strapped in tight before takeoff."

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Summary: In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

Amistad; 215 pages