| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
241 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
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Children lcdgt |
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Fourth grade students lcdgt |
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Fifth grade students lcdgt |
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Sixth grade students lcdgt |
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| Note |
Nutmeg Book Award nominee, Grade 7-8 Middle School, 2023. |
| Form |
Also available in electronic format. |
| Audience |
Ages 8-12. Little, Brown and Company. |
| Summary |
Suspended unjustly from elite Middlefield Prep, Donte Ellison studies fencing with a former champion, hoping to put the racist fencing team captain in his place. |
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Framed. Bullied. Disliked. But I know I can still be the best. Sometimes, 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield Prep, most of the students don't look like him. They don't like him either. Dubbing him "Black Brother," Donte's teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter-skinned brother, Trey. When he's bullied and framed by the captain of the fencing team, "King" Alan, he's suspended from school and arrested. Terrified, searching for a place where he belongs, Donte joins a local youth center and meets former Olympic fencer Arden Jones. With Arden's help, he begins training as a competitive fencer, setting his sights on taking down the fencing team captain, no matter what. As Donte hones his fencing skills and grows closer to achieving his goal, he learns the fight for justice is far from over. Now Donte must confront his bullies, racism, and the corrupt systems of power that led to his arrest. Powerful and emotionally gripping, Black Brother, Black Brother is a careful examination of the school-to-prison pipeline and follows one boy's fight against racism and his empowering path to finding his voice. -- From dust jacket. |
| Audience |
HL400L lexile. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 3.4 4.0 508461. |
| Subject |
Fencing -- Juvenile fiction.
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African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
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Racism against Black people -- Juvenile fiction.
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Schools -- Juvenile fiction.
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Families -- Massachusetts -- Juvenile fiction.
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Massachusetts -- Juvenile fiction.
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Fencing -- Fiction.
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African Americans -- Fiction.
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Racism -- Fiction.
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Preparatory schools -- Fiction.
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JUVENILE FICTION / General.
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Schools. (OCoLC)fst01107958
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Racism against Blacks. (OCoLC)fst02029244
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
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Fencing. (OCoLC)fst00922885
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Massachusetts. (OCoLC)fst01204307
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| Genre/Form |
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
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Children's stories.
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Social problem fiction. (OCoLC)fst01982507
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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Novels.
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Social problem fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780316493802 hardcover |
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0316493805 hardcover |
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9780316493796 (paperback) |
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0316493791 (paperback) |
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9781713740575 (FollettBound) |
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1713740575 (FollettBound) |
