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Black History Month Older Kids |
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Little leaders : bold women in black history
by Vashti Harrison
A biographical reference by a debut author and illustrator is based on her popular Instagram posts and shares the stories of 40 African-American women who shaped history. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Little legends : exceptional men in black history
by Vashti Harrison
A companion to the best-selling Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History shares the true stories of history-shaping black men, including civil rights leader John Lewis, filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and tennis champion Arthur Ashe. 75,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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Little dreamers : visionary women around the world
by Vashti Harrison
A highly anticipated follow-up to Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History shares illustrated profiles of 40 women trailblazers from different world regions and historical periods, including activist Wangari Maathai, architect Zaha Hadid and physicist Chien-Shiung Wu. 50,000 first printing
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New kid
by Jerry Craft
Enrolled in a prestigious private school where he is one of only a few students of color, talented seventh grade artist Jordan finds himself torn between the worlds of his Washington Heights apartment home and the upscale circles of Riverdale Academy.
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The Parker inheritance
by Varian Johnson
Spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, Candice discovers the letter that sent her grandmother on a treasure hunt, and with her new friend Brandon, sets off to expose the injustice once committed against a local African American family
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The season of Styx Malone
by Kekla Magoon
Caleb Franklin and his younger brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer with their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city
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Stella by starlight
by Sharon M. Draper
When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town
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Overground railroad
by Lesa Cline-Ransome
A girl named Ruth Anne tells the story of her family's train journey from North Carolina to New York City as part of the Great Migration
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Becoming Muhammad Ali : a novel
by James Patterson
Fully authorized by and written in cooperation with the Muhammad Ali estate, two powerhouse authors come together to tell the inspiring story of Cassius Clay, the determined boy who would one day become Muhammed Ali, one of the greatest sports heroes of all time.
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Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky
by Kwame Mbalia
Seventh-grader Tristan Strong tumbles into the MidPass and, with allies John Henry and Brer Rabbit, must entice the god Anansi to come out of hiding and seal the hole Tristan accidentally ripped in the sky
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Roll of thunder, hear my cry
by Mildred D Taylor
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand
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Brown girl dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South
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Unbound : a novel in verse
by Ann E Burg
Summoned from the slave cabins to work in the Big House, Grace finds it difficult to follow her uncle's advice to keep her thoughts to herself and sets in motion a chain of events that results in her family's fleeing the plantation
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Finding Langston
by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied
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The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963
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