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6th Grade
color me dark
color me dark by myers, walter dean
Darnell is getting poor grades in school and his teachers don’t like his attitude. But things take a turn for the better when he reluctantly joins the school newspaper and discovers his talent as a reporter.
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Color Me Dark
Color Me Dark by Patricia McKissack
Eleven year old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919. Her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.
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Cracker Jackson
Cracker Jackson by Betsy Byars
Eleven-year-old Cracker Jackson is in the middle of a serious problem. He must find a way to save his adult friend Alma from her violent husband. This realistic fiction addresses issues of friendship and family relationships.
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Cracker Jackson
Cracker Jackson by Betsy Byars
Eleven year old Cracker Jackson is in the middle of a serious problem. He must find a way to save his adult friend Alma from her violent husband. This realistic fiction addresses issues of friendship and family relationships.
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Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
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