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Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
Language
English
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Description
A black family living in Missippippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
Author
Series
Door of no return volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--
5) Small Steps
Author
Series
Holes volume 2
Language
English
Description
Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.
6) Sugar
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
7) Booked
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.
Author
Language
English
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Description
The bestselling Newbery Honor-winning story of an African-American family's experience traveling through the South in the turbulent 1960s. Ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons, make their way from Flint, Michigan to visit Grandma in Birmingham, Alabama, and travel through one of the darkest moments in American history.
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan,...
10) Hi, cat!
Author
Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 6
Language
English
Description
Archie's day would have been great if he had not started it by greeting the new cat on the block.
11) Magic like that
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
While her mother works magic styling her hair, a young Black girl recalls how her hairstyles can reflect the natural world and show that her hair can be elegant, mischievous, or whimsical.
Author
Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 2
Language
English
Description
A little boy wishes so much he could whistle.
14) Bird in a box
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1936, three children meet at the Mercy Home for Negro Orphans in New York State, and while not all three are orphans, they are all dealing with grief and loss which together, along with the help of a sympathetic staff member and the boxing matches of Joe Louis, they manage to overcome. Includes author's notes.
Author
Series
Zoe Washington stories volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.
17) Goggles!
Author
Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 5
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Two boys must outsmart the neighborhood bullies before they can enjoy their new treasure, a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles.
19) Freewater
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave "assets", possibly including Emma.
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