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Gr 7 Up—Charly is independent, confident, full of sass, and a genuinely nice person...

Gr 7 Up–Charly St...

Gr 8–11—A large cast of characters stars in this contemporary story centered around two African American girls new to Los Angeles...

Gr 9 Up—La-La is a talented singer with an absent mother and a sister battling cancer; Reese, a classically trained musician, has to sneak around a strict mother to pursue a love of hip-hop; Ziggy, a talented dancer, hides his passion from his Jamaican family because he's worried they'll think he's gay; and JamaicaKincaid wants so desperately to act that she's run away from her Connecticut boarding school to try and make it in New York on her own...

Gr 9 Up—Readers of teen urban fiction will love these two preachy but engaging novellas about love gone wrong...