Danger Zone

10 best books like Danger Zone (David Klass): Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968, Sundiata: Lion King of Mali, Sex Education, Stormwitch, Over the Wall, Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues, Game, Spellbound, This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie, A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson

AuthorAlice Faye Duncan
ISBN1629797189
This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest.

In...
Sundiata: Lion King of Mali
AuthorDavid Wisniewski
ISBN0395764815
I really enjoyed reading this book. I was very enlightened by the love of a parent to their child and the courage of a young man's promised to fulfill his destiny. This book read like a TV movie and you were waiting to see who the good guys were and who were the bad guys. To wait and see who would conquer all. In...
AuthorJenny Davis
Fictional narrative that follows the story of Olivia Sinclair who is recalling her freshman year in a new city and high school. During this year, she meets her first "love", David, in a biology class which turns into an untraditional, exploratory, and eye-opening sex education class. As a project for...
AuthorSusan Vaught
ISBN1582349525
It is 1969, and Ruba has just moved to Mississippi from Haiti to live with her Grandmother Jones. This world is very different from her old life, where she spent days beachcombing with Ba, her maternal grandmother, and learning the lore of magic and history that she holds close. But magic isn't welcome...
AuthorJohn H. Ritter
ISBN0698119312
Tyler's temper is out of control. If he isn't careful, he'll blow his chances of making the All-Star team and being noticed by a scout. But Tyler's coach, a Vietnam War veteran, has seen anger destroy enough people. He knows that if Tyler is ever going to fulfill his dreams, he'll have to learn to fight his...
AuthorPatricia C. McKissack
This is a great book to learn about facts from long ago about baseball and how it changed. It shows what African American baseball players had to go through to get to where they are today. This book will teach you really interesting things you may not know about the past of baseball and how it has grown from...
AuthorWalter Dean Myers
ISBN0060582944
Drew Lawson knows basketball is taking him places. It has to, because his grades certainly aren't. But lately his plan has run squarely into a pick. Coach's new offense has made another player a star, and Drew won't let anyone disrespect his game. Just as his team makes the playoffs, Drew must come up with...
AuthorJanet McDonald
Raven never expected to be a mother at sixteen. Is she going to be just another high school dropout, a project girl with few prospects? Could be, except Raven has ambition. Still, when is she going to find the time to finish school? Then her older sister tells her about a spelling bee that promises the winner...
AuthorElizabeth Partridge
ISBN0670035351
Before Springsteen and before Dylan, there was Woody Guthrie. With "This Machine Kills Fascists," scrawled across his guitar in big black letters, Woody Guthrie brilliantly captured in song the experience of twentieth-century America. Whether he sang about union organizers, migrant workers,...
AuthorMichelle Y. Green
ISBN0803726619
Mamie Johnson looks the batter in the eye. Sizes him up for a curve- or a fastball. Stretches her 5'2" frame. And pops a surefire, windup, coming-right-at-ya pitch smack dab over the plate. One that lets the batter know that this "peanut of a girl" means business. Fueled by her passion for the game and buoyed...
AuthorDave Pelzer
ISBN0452286522
As featured on Oprah
Dave Pelzer, author of the acclaimed, best-selling books A Man Named Dave and Help Yourself, continues his tireless crusade against despair with Help Yourself for Teens, an uplifting new book written specifically for young adults.

Sharing stories of his own adolescent...
AuthorGary Soto
ISBN0152054375
Meet Manuel, a young man who wears hand-me-downs from his older brothers until he finally gets a brand-new pair of shoes. And Jose Luis, who watches the vet bills rise after he buys a sick rooster to save it from becoming someone's dinner. And Alma, a young woman who runs to every shop and flea market in town...
AuthorGene Fehler
ISBN0618843485
It's the last inning of a high school baseball game between arch-rivals Oak Grove and Compton. Center fielder Luke "Wizard" Wallace steps up to the plate--and is hit by a beanball, a wild pitch that shatters his skull, destroys the vision in his left eye, and changes his life forever.
In this riveting...
AuthorNorah McClintock
ISBN1551434849
Josh had been living in a group home after being ratted out by Scott, his one-time best friend. Now he has moved in with his brother and overbearing sister-in-law and has been sent to a class designed to teach him to deal with his anger. When an old enemy continues to push his buttons and Scott appears to be...
Denim Diaries 2: Grown in Sixty Seconds
AuthorDarrien Lee
ISBN1933967722
Reading this book ive seen alot of myself in Denim. Im going through problems with friends, family, and school which puts me under alot of stress and sometimes makes it hard for me to let people know whats going on with me. Teens all over the world can relate to Denim and her situation some dont cope with their...
AuthorMatt Christopher
ISBN0316142735
This book is realistic fiction. I really liked this book especily the beginning. I like how he didnt give up when he was doing bad and when people would put him down. he still kept trying his hardest. I also liked how the book would give you the play by play of the game so you could under stand what was going on....
Blood & Ink
AuthorStephen Davies
Kadija is the music-loving daughter of a guardian of the sacred manuscripts of the ancient city of Timbuktu, Mali.

Ali is a former shepherd boy, trained as a warrior for Allah.

Tonight, the Islamist rebels are coming for Timbuktu. They will install a harsh regime of law and tear apart...
AuthorClark Taylor
ISBN0811801233
With a beat reminiscent of hip hop or rap music, a well known nursery rhyme is brilliantly transformed into a powerful poem about the tragic problem of illegal drugs and its victims. From the harvesting of the coca plants to dealers and gangs to the innocent crack babies born everyday, cocaine's journey...
T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.
AuthorSanyika Shakur
ISBN0802118712
The follow up to his best-selling memoir Monster, Sanyika Shakur’s T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E. is a vicious, heart-wrenching and true-to-life novel about an LA gang member that masterfully captures the violence and depravity of gang life. Shakur’s protagonist is Lapeace, the leader of the Eight Tray...
AuthorAnthony Grooms
ISBN0345452933
In his barracks, Walter Burke is trying to write a letter to the parents of a fallen soldier, an Alabama man who died in a muddy rice paddy. But all he can think of is his childhood friend Lamar, the friend with whom he first experienced the fury of violence, on the streets of Birmingham, at the height of the...
One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War
AuthorCharles London
ISBN0061240478
Today, in violence-torn regions across the globe, 20 million children have been uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and poverty. This is their story . . . and ours.

In this powerful and unforgettable book—by turns painful, funny, terrifying, and triumphant—Charles London...
16 1/2 On the Block
AuthorBabygirl Daniels
ISBN1601621833
This story takes place in the projects of Detroit. A girl named Latina Smith was put into some CRAZY drama. She already had a tough life because he mother had a BAD drug addiction. One day after chilling with Mike (Her crush since middle school), They seen two men drop a duffle bag onto the roof next to the...
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