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In the aftermath of the 1991 firestorm in Oakland, California, sixth grader Jessie enters a performing arts middle school where she pursues her dream of becoming an actress and struggles with feelings of low self-esteem.
School has just started and Joey Davis has problems. He has to deal with a teacher who doesn't like him. a class bully, and a new stepfather. When his stepfather brings home the pickup truck he hopes will launch his dream contracting business, he wants Joey to help--but Joey isn't sure he wants to take the chance, and trust him. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Mattie is determined to get her mother a beautiful gold pin for Mother's Day, even though she has not saved enough money and has just lost her job.
Chartreuse “Charlie” Pippin just can't seem to keep out of trouble. At school, she finds herself at odds with the principal when her entrepreneurial skills lead her to break the rules. At home, her father Oscar, a Vietnam veteran, is outraged by her refusal to play it safe like her sister, Sienna, and always do as she is told. But it is when Charlie's restless curiosity leads her to try and learn more about the Vietnam War that the sparks between Charlie and Oscar really begin to fly. Caught between her father's bitterness about his past and her own unflagging need to understand, Charlie wonders for the first time in her life if she is fighting a battle that no one can win.
Describes the special relationship between a father and his child.
A twelve-year-old black girl's preparations for the prestigious King Academy's entrance exam are disrupted when her best friend is killed.
A black girl from a middle-class family faces the usual pangs of adolescence.
Jessie develops self-esteem as she proves to herself and to her father that she can succeed both academically and personally at a performing arts middle school.
Novel units provide teachers with new ways to teach reading, thinking, writing, and the love of literature.
Spunky eleven-year-old Charlie hopes to understand her rigid father by finding out everything she can about the Vietnam War, the war that let him survive but killed his dreams.