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As the crow flies

"A ... [gay] black teenager finds herself stranded in a dangerous and unfamiliar place: an all-white Christian youth backpacking camp"--Amazon.com.
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Toni

2017
"Toni isn't Coach Wise's favorite player. Honestly, she's not even in his top five. And if she's being real, her own teammates keep siding with him during practice. But this isn't the first time she's been on her own. She's spent her whole life bouncing from one place to the next. If you can't count on yourself, who can you count on?"--Back cover.
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The game of Love and Death

In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.

The porcupine of truth

2015
Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.

Janae

2016
"Janae works days at her Granny's Strange Goods Superstore selling lucky rabbits' feet and other useless junk. At night, she dominates the courts with her boys. She knows she'll make it big--luck's got nothing to do with it. Right?"--Back cover.

The game of Love and Death

2015
In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.

Down by law

Isis Carter, schooled on the streets to be tough and survive, has a run-in with the law that shatters her world and forces her to rely on herself--that is, until her secret crush, K-Rock, steps in. Now her future is uncertain, but it may actually be bright.

Orleans

2014
Set in a futuristic, hostile Orleans landscape, Fen de la Guerre must deliver her tribe leader's baby over the Wall into the Outer States before her blood becomes tainted with Delta Fever.

The real deal

a spiritual guide for Black teen girls
2004
Offers advice to African-American teen girls on how they can deal with the many issues and challenges they face in everyday life.

Meant to be

a novel
2008
Patience Jan Campbell suffers a traumatic experience and in desperation calls through prayer for her grandmother Hannah, who died before Jan was born and whose spirit follows Jan on her journey to womanhood and spiritual awakening.

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