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Diverse Reads for All Ages June 2024 This month we celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and Juneteenth, June 19th, a federal holiday that marks the end of slavery in the United States.
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Juneteenth for Mazie
by Floyd Cooper
Little Mazie wants the freedom to stay up late, but her father explains what freedom really means in the story of Juneteenth, and how her ancestors celebrated their true freedom.
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All good in the hood
by Dwayne Reed
America's favorite rapping teacher from Chicago tells this bounce-to-the-beat story in which a young boy and his brother navigate the sights and sounds of the hood on Juneteenth, overcoming their fears together.
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And Tango Makes Three
by Justin Richardson
When male penguins Silo and Roy attempt to hatch an egg-shaped rock and find no success in their efforts, the zookeepers decide to place a fertilized penguin egg in their cage and end up with little baby Tango, in an amusing tale based on a true story from the Central Park Zoo.
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Mama and Mommy and me in the middle
by Nina LaCour
When her mother goes on a business trip, a little girl, who loves to sit between Mama and Mommy at the table, misses her a lot and feels empty until Mommy finally comes home, filling the void with love.
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Going bicoastal
by Dahlia Adler
Told in alternating timelines, this queer rom-com follows Natalya Fox, who must choose between spending the summer in NYC with her dad (and the girl she's crushing on) or in LA with her estranged mom (and the guy she never saw coming).
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The hill we climb : an inaugural poem for the country
by Amanda Gorman
On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet, at age twenty-two, to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb," is now available to cherish in this special edition.
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Drag teen : a tale of angst and wigs
by Jeffery Self
A regular guest on such shows as Desperate Housewives presents the story of an insecure high school senior whose ambition to be the first member of his family to leave his backwater town and go to college prompts him to compete in a drag queen pageant for a college scholarship.
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Inventing Victoria
by Tonya Bolden
Essie, a young black woman in 1880s Savannah, is offered the opportunity to leave her shameful past and be transformed into an educated, high-society woman in Washington, D.C
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The guncle abroad : a novel
by Steven Rowley
With his brother getting remarried in Italy, Patrick takes his niece and nephew back under his wing, and as they travel through Europe, he tries his best to help them understand love, while dealing with a groom with cold feet, his over-flirtatious sister and other disasters.
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Envisioning emancipation : Black Americans and the end of slavery
by Deborah Willis
In their pioneering book, renowned photographic historian Deborah Willis and historian of slavery Barbara Krauthamer have amassed 150 photographs--some never before published--rom the antebellum days of the 1850s through the New Deal era of the 1930s. The authors vividly display the seismic impact of emancipation on African Americans born before and after the Proclamation, providing a perspective on freedom and slavery and a way to understand the photos as documents of engagement, action, struggle, and aspiration.
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Triple sec : a novel
by T. J. Alexander
Convinced love doesn't exist, Mel, a bartender at a swanky NYC cocktail lounge, changes her mind when she becomes a throuple with Bebe and Kade, a fun romp that gives her the self-confidence to try things she's never thought possible, discovering real love is more expansive than she ever thought possible.
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