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Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Laurie Boyle Crompton’s coming of age in rural Pennsylvania and the New York City area in the 1970s and 1980s was anything but idyllic. In moving verse accompanied by diary-esque sketches, Crompton takes you along as she navigates relationships, plays the happy family at church despite discord at home, manages her mother’s ambitions and her father’s alcoholism, struggles with her self-image, and desperately tries to fit in at...
Author
Series
Denim diaries volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Julius Graham becomes the only witness to a horrific crime in his neighborhood, it is up to his peer tutor, Denim Mitchell, to help him come to terms with what he saw and convince him to do the right thing.
Author
Series
Denim diaries volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This story explores the lives of sixteen-year-olds Denim Mitchell and Andre Patterson, who have shared an intense bond ever since they were kids. Denim yearns to date Andre, known by his friends as Dre. However, Denim's parents are doing everything in their power to keep the heat of the passion between the two teens under wraps. Dre, a rising basketball star and budding artist, has a glorious future ahead of him. Unfortunately, rumor has it that he's...
4) Raising Kane
Author
Series
Denim diaries volume 5
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kane Alexander is growing up in a single-parent home after her mother abandons the family. Her father is forced to take on two jobs to support his family, and the responsibility of caring for her two younger siblings is placed on Kane. She loves her family, but can't help but feel like she's missing out on life as a teenager.
Kane shares her feelings with her father, but he insists that she should put her family ahead of her social...
Author
Series
Denim diaries volume 4
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Jumping double-dutch is 12-year-old Tiffany's favorite pastime. She's the most talented jumper at her school, incorporating flips and stunts into her routine. All that practice has made her the best in the mid-state area, good enough to enter into an upcoming competition. Then suddenly, her demeanor changes and she stops jumping rope altogether.
Her mother, who wasn't thrilled about Tiffany's obsession in the first place, easily accepts her excuse...
Author
Series
Denim diaries volume 3
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In spite of her sisterhood gang's powerful reputation, seventeen-year-old Patience is ready to step down as leader. The problem is whether the other members will let her out. Then as Patience plans her farewell from the hood, Denim Mitchell overhears that Patience is being set up by her own sisterhood.
Author
Series
Denim diaries volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After seventeen-year-olds Patrice and DeMario spend one careless night together, they find themselves anticipating a child, and more pressure is added when they learn the unborn child faces life-threatening complications.

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