Big BINGO Book Challenge: Middle School – February

Here’s February’s Big BINGO Book Challenge. For every BINGO, teens get chances to win a $20 gift card or the $100 grand prize Amazon gift card!

Sign up to join the Challenge here. Get the February BINGO card online and log a BINGO online. Remember, you can join or submit your BINGO at any time.

February’s Middle School Challenge books are in honor of African-American History Month.

Amari and the Night Brothers by BB Alston

Supernatural Investigators series, book #1

Available as a book and ebook.

Summary from Goodreads: Quinton Peters was the golden boy of the Rosewood low-income housing projects, receiving full scholarship offers to two different Ivy League schools. When he mysteriously goes missing, his little sister, 13-year-old Amari Peters, can’t understand why it’s not a bigger deal. Why isn’t his story all over the news? And why do the police automatically assume he was into something illegal? Then Amari discovers a ticking briefcase in her brother’s old closet. A briefcase meant for her eyes only. There was far more to Quinton, it seems, than she ever knew. He’s left her a nomination for a summer tryout at the secretive Bureau of Supernatural Affairs. Amari is certain the answer to finding out what happened to him lies somewhere inside, if only she can get her head around the idea of mermaids, dwarves, yetis and magicians all being real things

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia

Tristan Strong series, book #1

Available as a book, ebook, CD audiobook, digital audiobook, and Playaway.

Summary from Goodreads: Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. But on his first night recovering, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie’s journal. In a last attempt to wrestle the journal out of the creature’s hands, Tristan punches the tree, accidentally ripping open a chasm into the MidPass, a volatile place with a burning sea, haunted bone ships, and iron monsters that are hunting the inhabitants of this world.

Ghost by Jason Reynolds

Track series, book #1

Available as a book, large print book, ebook, CD audiobook, digital audiobook, and Playaway.

Summary from Goodreads: Running. That’s all that Ghost (real name Castle Cranshaw) has ever known. But never for a track team. Nope, his game has always been ball. But when Ghost impulsively challenges an elite sprinter to a race — and wins — the Olympic medalist track coach sees he has something: crazy natural talent. Thing is, Ghost has something else: a lot of anger, and a past that he is trying to outrun. Can Ghost harness his raw talent for speed and meld with the team, or will his past finally catch up to him?

Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds & Alexander Nabaum

Available as a book, ebook, CD audiobook, digital audiobook, and Playaway.

Summary from Goodreads: This story was going to begin like all the best stories. With a school bus falling from the sky. But no one saw it happen. They were all too busy—Talking about boogers. Stealing pocket change. Skateboarding. Wiping out. Braving up. Executing complicated handshakes. Planning an escape. Making jokes. Lotioning up. Finding comfort. But mostly, too busy walking home.

All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor

The Logans series, book #1

Available as a book, ebook, and digital audiobook.

Summary from Goodreads: Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi
to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated by the racist society of America, and the often violent confrontations that brought about change.

Some Places More Than Others by Renée Watson

Available as a book and ebook.

Summary from Goodreads: All Amara wants is to visit her father’s family in Harlem. Her wish comes true when her dad decides to bring her along on a business trip. She can’t wait to finally meet her extended family and stay in the brownstone where her dad grew up. Plus, she wants to visit every landmark from the Apollo to Langston Hughes’s home. But her family, and even the city, is not quite what Amara thought. Her dad doesn’t speak to her grandpa, and the crowded streets can be suffocating as well as inspiring. But as she learns more and more about Harlem—and her father’s history—Amara realizes how, in some ways more than others, she can connect with this other home and family.

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

Gaithers Sisters series, book #1

Available as a book, large print book, ebook, CD audiobook, digital audiobook, and Playaway.

Summary from Goodreads: In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson

Available as a book, ebook, CD audiobook, and digital audiobook.

Summary from Goodreads: For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone’s hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he’s as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ’s house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. ZJ’s mom explains it’s because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. ZJ can understand that–but it doesn’t make the sting any less real when his own father forgets his name. As ZJ contemplates his new reality, he has to figure out how to hold on tight to family traditions and recollections of the glory days, all the while wondering what their past amounts to if his father can’t remember it. And most importantly, can those happy feelings ever be reclaimed when they are all so busy aching for the past?

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