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 * Please include author, title, and summary.**


 * //Black Duck// by Janet Taylor Lisle**

Ruben Hart tells the story of how his family and his best friend's family were caught up in a competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island.


 * //Fire from the Rock// by Sharon Draper**

In 1957, Sylvia Pattterson's life--that of a normal African American teenager--is disrupted by the impending integration of Little Rock's Central High when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the previously all white school.