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OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
OBD Coretta Scott King Award - YOUTH
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
OBD Coretta Scott King Award - YOUTH
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Collection of 19 folktales, legends, and true stories celebrating the heroic cunning, patience, and courage of African-American women and girls.
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Black History Month
OBD Coretta Scott King Award - YOUTH
OBD Newbery Medal Winners (1922-2022) - YOUTH
OBD YA Historical Fiction - YOUTH
OBD Coretta Scott King Award - YOUTH
OBD Newbery Medal Winners (1922-2022) - YOUTH
OBD YA Historical Fiction - YOUTH
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
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2024 Women's History Month for Kids
Black Authors to Know @ DGPL
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Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson's...
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Folk & Fairy Tales (WPL-Youth)
OBD Coretta Scott King Award - YOUTH
RLG Caldecott Medal List
Folk & Fairy Tales (WPL-Youth)
OBD Coretta Scott King Award - YOUTH
RLG Caldecott Medal List
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Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered, one kind and sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a wife.
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Celebrating Black Creators
K&T - National Poetry Month
OBD Coretta Scott King Award - YOUTH
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K&T - National Poetry Month
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While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 4
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From Publishers Weekly: The Friendship, set in Mississippi in 1933, relates the unexpected consequences when Cassie Logan, the heroine of Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, sees a black customer call a white storekeeper by his first name. In The Gold Cadillac, a black family encounters ignorance and prejudice during a drive from their Toledo home to Mississippi in their brand-new 1950 Cadillac. Both stories depict Taylor's customary sensitivity...
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OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
OBD Coretta Scott King Award - YOUTH
Telling a People's Story
OBD Coretta Scott King Award - YOUTH
Telling a People's Story
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"Alex Haley's Roots awakened many Americans to the cruelty of slavery. The Middle Passage focuses attention on the torturous journey which brought slaves from Africa to the Americas, allowing readers to bear witness to the sufferings of an entire people"--Provided by publisher.
11) The land
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 8
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After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.
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Heaven trilogy volume 2
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Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
13) Heaven
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Heaven trilogy volume 1
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Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents.
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Troubled fourteen-year-old Gayle is sent down South to live with her uncle and aunt, where her life begins to change as she experiences the healing power of the family. At 14, Gayle is pregnant. Again. The first time she kept the baby. This time her mother drags Gayle to have an abortion and then sends her away from the projects in Jamaica, New York, on a one-way ticket to family in Georgia. For Gayle, it's like being "sold to slavery." She's never...
18) Dark sons
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Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.
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