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Forever and Always
Brittany J. Thurman - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this lyrical picture book from two breakout picture book creators, a young Black child waits for - and worries about - her father while he's away from home. A sensitive, poignant portrayal of a family's worries, joys, and comforts, to sit alongside books by Jacqueline Woodson... |
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Freedom in Congo Square
Carole Boston Weatherford - little bee books
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator HonorA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016A School Library Journal Best Book of 2016: NonfictionStarred reviews from School Library Journal, BOOKLIST , Kirkus Reviews, and The Horn Book MagazineA Junior Library Guild SelectionThis... |
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The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson - Carolrhoda Books
Format: Print book
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"In the 1930s, Lewis's dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had an itch he needed to scratch a book itch. How to scratch it? He started a bookstore in Harlem and named it the National Memorial African Bookstore. And as far as Lewis Michaux Jr. could tell, his father's bookstore was one of a kind.... |
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The Other Side
Jacqueline Woodson - Putnam Juvenile
Format: Book
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Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of town from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around the grown-ups' rules by sitting on top of the fence together. With the addition... |
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Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
Ellen Levine - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that... |
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We March
Shane W. Evans - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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On August 28, 1963, a remarkable event took place--more than 250,000 people gathered in our nation's capital to participate in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march began at the Washington Monument and ended with a rally at the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther... |
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Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
Andrea Davis Pinkney - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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It was February 1, 1960.They didnt need menus. Their order was simple.A doughnut and coffee, with cream on the side.This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworths lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became... |
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The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond
Brenda Woods - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Paperback
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Coretta Scott King Honor winner Brenda Woods moving, uplifting story of a girl finally meeting the African American side of her family explores racism and how it feels to be biracial, and celebrates families of all kinds.Violet is biracial, but she lives with her white mother and sister,... |
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Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Hardcover
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Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's LiteratureA New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another Brooklyn, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing... |
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Black Lives Matter
Sue Bradford Edwards - Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing
Format: Print book
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"Black Lives Matter covers the shootings that touched off passionate protests, the work of activists to bring about a more just legal system, and the tensions in US society that these events have brought to light." from the publisher's website |
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Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
Kadir Nelson - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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Kadir Nelsons Heart and Soul is the winner of numerous awards, including the 2012 Coretta Scott King Author Award and Illustrator Honor, and the recipient of five starred reviews.The story of America and African Americans is a story of hope and inspiration and unwavering courage. This is the story... |
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The Mighty Miss Malone
Christopher Paul Curtis - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning Bud, Not Buddy, Bud met a girl named Deza Malone in a Hooverville. This is her story. "We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malones family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class... |
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The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch
Chris Barton - Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2015.
Format: Print book
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John Roy Lynch spent most of his childhood as a slave in Mississippi, but all of that changed with the Emancipation Proclamation. Suddenly people like John Roy could have paying jobs and attend school. While many people in the South were unhappy with the social change, John Roy thrived... |
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Through My Eyes
Ruby Bridges - Scholastic Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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On November 14, 1960, a tiny six-year-old black child, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. From where she sat in the office, Ruby Bridges could see parents marching through the halls and taking their children out of classrooms.... |
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Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
Laban Carrick Hill - Little
Format: Hardcover
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To us it is just dirt,the ground we walk on...But to Daveit was clay,the plain and basic stuffupon which he formed a lifeas a slave nearly 200 years ago.Dave was an extraordinary artist, poet, and potter living in South Carolina in the 1800s. He combined his superb artistry with deeply... |
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Ron's Big Mission
Rose Blue - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Nine-year-old Ron loves going to the Lake City Public Library to look through all the books on airplanes and flight. Today, Ron is ready to take out books by himself. But in the segregated world of South Carolina in the 1950s, Ron?s obtaining his own library card is not just a small... |
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Juneteenth for Mazie
Floyd Cooper - Capstone Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Mazie is ready to celebrate liberty. She is ready to celebrate freedom. She is ready to celebrate a great day in American history -- the day her ancestors were no longer slaves. Mazie remembers the struggles and the triumph, as she gets ready to celebrate Juneteenth. |
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Blended
SHARON M DRAPER - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover
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Eleven-year-old Isabella's blended family is more divided than ever in this thoughtful story about divorce and racial identity from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper.Eleven-year-old Isabella's parents are divorced,... |
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Ninth Ward
Jewell Parker Rhodes - Little, Brown and Co.
Format: Paperback
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Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown family or lots of friends like the other kids on her street. But what she does have is Mama Ya-Ya, her fiercely loving caretaker, wise in the ways of the world... |
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One Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia - Amistad
Format: Paperback
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In this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them.Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She's... |
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The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
Steve Sheinkin - Square Fish
Format: Paperback
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An astonishing World War II military story of civil rights from New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin.A National Book Award FinalistA YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction FinalistA School Library Journal Best Book of the YearOn July 17, 1944, a massive... |
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A Good Kind of Trouble
Lisa Moore Ramee - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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After attending a powerful protest, Shayla starts wearing an armband to school to support the Black Lives Matter movement, but when the school gives her an ultimatum, she is forced to choose between her education and her identity. |
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