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Winter Reading Challenge Read a book by JaNay Brown-Wood, Tracey Baptiste or Jewell Parker Rhodes
January 2025 |
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African icons
by Tracey Baptiste
From ancient times through the 16th century, this underrepresented side of Black history and Black excellence presents heroic full-color portraits and 10 stories of people who helped shape the African continent.
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Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin
by Tracey Baptiste
Be introduced to two brave Black women who stood up against segregation, setting in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott and showing the nation how positive change can start with a single defiant act.
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Carnival chaos
by Tracey Baptiste
When Misty moved from Trinidad to Brooklyn, she was not expecting to discover she is a moko jumbie spirit, that she and her cousins all have magic, and she certainly did not expect to discover a plot to capture magical power during the annual West IndianLabor Day parade
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Boy 2.0
by Tracey Baptiste
Landing in his latest foster home, Coal, suddenly able to turn invisible, searches for answers about who and what he is with the help of friends both old and new, but the truth is far stranger —and more dangerous— than he ever could have imagined.
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The Jumbies
by Tracey Baptiste
In a spine-tingling tale that is rooted in Caribbean folklore, 11-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
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Soul Step
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
This heartfelt ode to sisterhood and a strong mother-daughter bond celebrates the history of stepping that lets people of all backgrounds step loud and be proud!
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Bayou magic
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Spending a summer at the bayou, city girl Maddy glimpses what she thinks might be a mermaid and learns from her wise grandmother her potential for carrying on her family's magical legacy.
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Treasure island: runaway gold
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Entrusted with a real treasure map, Zane, along with his friends Kiko and Jack and his dog, Hip-Hop, arrives in Manhattan where he learns about the buried history of Black New Yorkers of centuries past, and the gold hidden in those stories, while eluding a vicious rival skateboard crew.
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Towers falling
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Three dynamic fifth-graders who were born after September 11 work together on a project about how communities grow together, discovering how the attacks still powerfully affect their families and their neighborhood.
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Black brother, black brother
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Routinely compared to his submissive lighter-skinned brother, a Black boy at an elitist prep school is unfairly suspended in the wake of an incident involving the school bully, whom he tries to defeat in a fencing competition.
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Ghost boys
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till.
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