Christopher Myers

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Banned Books - Teens
Freedom to Read: Books Unite Us
GPLD Best Mystery/Thrillers for Teens
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

2) H.O.R.S.E: a game of basketball and imagination

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8th Grade Recommended Reads
Books by Black Authors
GPLD Best Fantasy for Teens
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"Two friends try to outdo each other on the basketball court in an out-of-this-world game of H.O.R.S.E"--

3) Pet

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Emezi, Akwaeke

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Black History Month
Celebrate Women's History Month - YOUTH
K&T - Black History Month
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In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster. There are no monsters anymore. In the city of Lucille, Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. Then Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's...

4) Firebird

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Copeland, Misty

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American Ballet Theater soloist Misty Copeland encourages a young ballet student, with brown skin like her own, by telling her that she, too, had to learn basic steps and how to be graceful when she was starting out, and that some day, with practice and dedication, the little girl will become a firebird, too. Includes author's note about dancers who led her to find her voice.

5) Looking like me

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Live Oak Media eReadalong

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Celebrating Black Creators

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Jeremy sets out to discover all of the different "people" that make him who he is, including brother, son, writer, and runner.

6) H.O.R.S.E

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Arab American Heritage
Arab American Heritage Month
Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
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One day at the basketball court, two kids, a familiar challenge—H.O.R.S.E.? But this isn't your grandmother's game of hoops. Not when a layup from the other side of the court, standing on one foot, with your eyes closed is just the warm-up.

Around the neighborhood, around the world, off Saturn's rings . . . the pair goes back and forth. The game is as much about skill as it is about imagination.

A slam dunk from award-winning

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7) Home is not a country

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Elhillo, Safia

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"Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to feel like that she belongs somewhere else. At least she has her childhood friend Haitham, with whom she can let her guard down and be herself. Until she doesn't. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life...

8) Jazz

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Live Oak Media eReadalong

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English

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Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the roots of jazz music.

9) Black cat

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A black cat wanders through the streets of a city.

10) Autobiography of my dead brother

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Jesse pours his heart and soul into his sketchbook to make sense of life in his troubled Harlem neighborhood and the loss of a close friend.

11) Enlightened entrepreneurship: how to start and scale your business without losing your sanity

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Through his collection of essays, originally published in Forbes magazine, entrepreneur Christopher Myers shares an honest account of building his company--BodeTree, an online financial management tool for small businesses. He provides invaluable insights and tips for others looking to start a small business. But this is no ordinary how-to book.

12) My Pen: All You Need Is Your Imagination

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What can your pen do?" Acclaimed artist Christopher Myers reveals the marvelous things his pen can do, meanwhile challenging and inspiring children to use their imaginations to create -- with a pen and some paper anything is possible!

13) Lies and other tall tales

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A compilation of tall tales collected by folklorist Zora Neale Hurston during her travels in the Gulf states during the 1930s.

14) We are America: a tribute from the heart

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