Rec. Grade Levels Archives: 11

Boys of Baraka

The Boys of Baraka follows a group of middle school students as they journey from Baltimore to Kenya in pursuit of a better education.

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Brooklyn Castle

Brooklyn Castle follows five chess team members at a New York school, showing how chess helps transforms the school into one of the city’s best, but recession-driven budget cuts threaten to undermine the school’s championship chess team.

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Brown Sugar

Following the evolving relationship of a revered music critic and a successful, though unfulfilled, music executive in New York, Brown Sugar uses a love story to parallel the history of hip-hop music.

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Bully

Following five students and their families over the course of a school year, Bully offers an intimate and unflinching look into the often endangered lives of bullied kids, revealing a problem that transcends geographic, racial, ethnic and economic borders.

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Central Station

An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

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