Night Music
Ruby and Oscar are caught up in a romance despite very different backgrounds and her having given up on music, while he is the prot?g? of her father, a renowned composer.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: musicians, dating (social customs), families [X], african americans [X], coming of age [X], family life, new york (n.y.), bildungsromans [X]
Not So Pure And Simple
"High school junior Del Rainey unwittingly joins a Purity Pledge class at church, hoping to get closer to his long-term crush, Kiera"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year:
copies: 36
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dating (social customs), christian life, high schools, schools, families [X], african americans [X], family life, school stories, virginia, coming of age [X], bildungsromans, bildungsromans [X], domestic fiction, electronic books
Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero
"Isaiah is now the big man of the house. But it's a lot harder than his dad made it look.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: african american families, authorship, diaries, fathers, friendship, money-making projects for children, perseverance (ethics), african americans [X], moneymaking projects, perseverance, families [X], grief, family life, coming of age [X], bildungsromans [X], domestic fiction, domestic fiction
Your House Will Pay
"In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as it's been since the unrest of the early 1990s.
FIC
year:
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: african americans [X], bildungsromans, families [X], korean americans, mystery fiction, police shootings, coming of age [X], family life, los angeles (calif.), bildungsromans [X], detective and mystery fiction
Nigeria Jones
When her mother disappears, Nigeria Jones, the daughter of the leader of a Black liberation group, searches for her, uncovering a shocking truth which leads her to question everything she thought she knew about her life and her family.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 32
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: african americans [X], black nationalism, families [X], self-realization, family life, coming of age [X], bildungsromans [X]
Between Two Brothers
Isaiah "Ice" Abernathy is excited to spend as much time with his brother, Seth, as he can before Seth goes to college.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: brothers, siblings, families [X], guilt, african americans [X], family life, coming of age [X], bildungsromans [X]