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What They Found: Love on 145th Street

10 best books like What They Found: Love on 145th Street (Walter Dean Myers): The Death of Jayson Porter, Jason & Kyra, Baby Girl, Quaking, Imani All Mine, Who Am I Without Him?: A Short Story Collection about Girls and Boys in Their Lives, Toning The Sweep, When the Black Girl Sings, Standing Against the Wind, Denim Diaries 1: 16 Going on 21

The Death of Jayson Porter
AuthorJaime Adoff
ISBN1423106911
Sixteen-year-old Jayson Porter wants to believe things will get better. But the harsh realities of his life never seem to change. Living in the inland-Florida projects with his abusive mother, he tries unsuccessfully to fit in at his predominately white school, while struggling to maintain even...
Jason & Kyra
AuthorDana Davidson
ISBN0786818514
Jason is a basketball star and one of the most popular guys in school. Brainy Kyra isn't, but she doesn't much care what other people think. Under normal circumstances, Jason and Kyra would live in their separate worlds until graduation. But fate intervenes, and the unlikely duo is paired up for a class...
Baby Girl
AuthorLenora Adams
ISBN1416925120
All I can say is that I never thought it would come to this. I never thought I would run away. For some reason I thought you, of all people, would see and know.

Sheree has always been a tough girl, able to take care of herself. Then she finds herself in a situation where she can't. She needs help. She...
Quaking
AuthorKathryn Erskine
ISBN0399247742
Don't call her Matilda. Her name is Matt. And don't even think about getting close to her. She doesn't need anyone. Can't you tell by looking at her, dressed all in black with a spider painted on her face and her ice-cold stare? But most of all, do not bully her. She has been through it all already. But everything...
Imani All Mine
AuthorConnie Rose Porter
ISBN0618056785
"With authority and grace" (Essence), Imani All Mine tells the story of Tasha, a fourteen-year-old unwed mother of a baby girl. In her ghettoized world where poverty, racism, and danger are daily struggles, Tasha uses her savvy and humor to uncover the good hidden around her. The name she gives her daughter,...
Who Am I Without Him?: A Short Story Collection about Girls and Boys in Their Lives
AuthorSharon G. Flake
ISBN0786806931
There is "The Ugly One," whose only solace comes when she is locked inside her own head. In "Wanted: A Thug," a teenager seeks advice on how to steal her best friend's bad-guy boyfriend. And then there's Erika, who only likes white boys. Sharon Flake takes readers through the minds of girls trying to define...
Toning The Sweep
AuthorAngela Johnson
ISBN0590481428
Angela Johnson's Coretta Scott King Award winning novel that traces three generations of African American women as they learn one another's truths.

Three generations of African American women, each holding on to a separate truth. Their story -- encompassing racism and murder as well as...
When the Black Girl Sings
AuthorBil Wright
ISBN1416939954
Lahni Schuler is the only black student at her private prep school. She's also the adopted child of two loving, but white, parents who are on the road to divorce. Struggling to comfort her mother and angry with her dad, Lahni feels more and more alone. But when Lahni and her mother attend a local church one...
Standing Against the Wind
AuthorTraci L. Jones
ISBN0374371741
Patrice Williams was happy living in Georgia with her grandmother, who called her “cocoa grandbaby.” Then her mother lured her to Chicago and ended up in jail. Now Patrice lives with her Auntie Mae, and her new nickname is “Puffy” – thanks to her giant poof of hair. But Patrice’s hair isn’t...
Denim Diaries 1: 16 Going on 21
AuthorDarrien Lee
ISBN1933967714
This week I have started reading '16 Going on 21' by Darrien Lee. So far this book is really intense it jumps straight into the action. Denim and Dré have been friends since they were three years old and it is clear how much they love each other. The only thing in their way is Denim's annoying and overbearing...
So Not The Drama
AuthorPaula Chase
ISBN0758218591
In exactly one hour, eighteen minutes, and thirty-five seconds, Mina Mooney will be dipping her pink Nellie timbs into the infamous frosh pit. . .

Hoping Del Rio Bay High will live up to her greatest expectations, Mina has big plans for infiltrating the school's social glitterati. After all,...
Spellbound
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...
Behind You
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0142403903
"Feels like I've known him since before he got to the world-longer than he knew himself, truthfully. Seems like we'd been friends really...Somewhere before life on earth..."

--Desire Viola Roselind, "Behind You", P. 24

"Kids are something. All they can see is the beauty in a moment."

...
Emako Blue
AuthorBrenda Woods
ISBN0142404187
Emako Blue was supposed to be a star. She was beautiful and good-hearted. She was Monterey's best friend. She was the only girl Jamal cared about, the one who saw through his player act. She was the one who understood the burden of Eddie's family. She was the best singer anyone had ever heard, with a voice...
Fire from the Rock
AuthorSharon M. Draper
ISBN0525477209
Sylvia Patterson is shocked and confused when she is asked to be one of the first black students to attend Central High School, which is scheduled to be integrated in September 1957, whether the citizens or governor of Arkansas like it or not. Before Sylvia makes her final decision, smoldering racial...
First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants
AuthorDonald R. Gallo
ISBN0763632910
"Stories by eleven well-known authors touch on a variety of teen experiences, with enough attitude and angst to speak to young adults anywhere." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

Fleeing from political violence in Venezuela, Amina and her family have settled in the United States. Sarah, adopted,...
Love, Cajun Style
AuthorDiane Les Becquets
ISBN1582346747
It’s the summer before Lucy’s senior year in high school, and life in her sleepy Louisiana town is about to be turned upside down. Her mama’s flirting with the dark stranger who runs the art gallery, her best friends Mary Jordan and Evie have boys on the brain, the drama teacher is sparking some powerful...
Strays
AuthorRon Koertge
ISBN0763627054
Sixteen-year-old Ted O’Connor’s parents just died in a fiery car crash, and now he’s stuck with a set of semi-psycho foster parents, two foster brothers — Astin, the cocky gearhead, and C.W., the sometimes gangsta — and an inner-city high school full of delinquents. He’s having pretty...
The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural
AuthorDeborah Noyes
ISBN0763629065
Ten extraordinary authors spin hair-raising original tales collected by the anthologist of GOTHIC!

With scary stories by: M. T. Anderson, Holly Black, Libba Bray, Herbie Brennan, Nancy Etchemendy, Annette Curtis Klause, Kelly Link, Deborah Noyes, Marcus Sedgwick, and Chris Wooding

Enter...
A Thousand Never Evers
AuthorShana Burg
ISBN0385734700
IN KUCKACHOO, MISSISSIPPI, 1963, Addie Ann Pickett worships her brother Elias and follows in his footsteps by attending the black junior high school. But when her careless act leads to her brother’s disappearance and possible murder, Addie Ann, Mama, and Uncle Bump struggle with not knowing if...
Every Time a Rainbow Dies
AuthorRita Williams-Garcia
ISBN0064473031
The Barnes & Noble Review


In a beautifully written but hard-hitting tale about the harsh realities of life, African-American author Rita Williams-Garcia offers the elegantly poignant young adult novel Every Time a Rainbow Dies. Sixteen-year-old Thulani has been adrift in his...
Nothing But Drama
AuthorReShonda Tate Billingsley
ISBN1416525602

The first book in an exciting and inspiring new series from national bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley Their lives are nothing but drama. . . . Camille can't believe her bad luck when she's ordered to join a church youth group after hiding her boyfriend from the police. She'll bide her...
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