![]() ![]() ![]() Sixteen-year-old Alex Rufus is trying his best. He’ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man. Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. When King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can't just walk away. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. ![]() But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. Until, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father. Life’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. Hurricane Summer is a powerful coming of age story that deals with colorism, classism, young love, the father-daughter dynamic-and what it means to discover your own voice in the center of complete destruction. In an unexpected turn of events, Tilla is forced to face the storm that unravels in her own life as she learns about the dark secrets that lie beyond the veil of paradise-all in the midst of an impending hurricane. But every six months, he leaves their family and returns to his true home: the island of Jamaica. When Tilla’s mother tells her she’ll be spending the summer on the island, Tilla dreads the idea of seeing him again, but longs to discover what life in Jamaica has always held for him. ![]() In this sweeping debut, Asha Bromfield takes readers to the heart of Jamaica, and into the soul of a girl coming to terms with her family, and herself, set against the backdrop of a hurricane.Tilla has spent her entire life trying to make her father love her. Black is You, Black is Me, Black is Us, Black is Free! Jump to Picture Book Titles Jump to Middle Grade Titles Jump to Young Adult Titles Jump to Bonus Adult Titles Picture Books Titles In all, the creation of this booklist was inspired and defined by The Last Poets’ powerful 1970 poem entitled, Black is. It also can be used to encourage others to be stronger allies through an empathetic lens. This booklist was primarily curated in hopes to encourage the Black youth to strive for that same freedom. Not only free from anti-Black racism, but also free to be individuals who can explore what it means to be themselves outside the caricatured monolithic scope society tries to impose on their Black bodies. They dreamed of the freedom to be unabashedly authentic in the face of all forms of oppression. Like the formerly enslaved Africans, the Black protagonists, characters, and historical figures of this booklist dared to imagine freedom against all opposing factors in their narratives. In celebration of Juneteenth, this booklist was curated in that same spirit. Free to love, free to create, free to enjoy everything life has to offer. They longed for the day they would be free to be whatever they desired. Many carved out their own paths for freedom well before a document legally legitimized their personhood. Black Americans have always used their imagination to envision what the days would look like when they were free. ![]()
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