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Series
Lola books (Anna McQuinn) volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Lola plants a flower garden with her parent's help, and watches it grow.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Forced to spend the summer before senior year in Coldwater, Maryland, where her estranged and dying grandmother lives, Jericka makes a chilling discovery that causes her to question everything she thought she knew about her mother, her childhood, and the lines between the living and the dead.
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Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 8
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes of Oak Glen Primary School is looking for a new best friend, and he decides that the best way to find one is to come up with a bunch of amazing things to do at recess--and see who shares in the fun.
8) Snitchers
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Years ago Nia lost her father to the violence plaguing her small Indiana city. When the five-year-old boy she babysits for is killed in a drive-by shooting, she and her friends decide enough is enough and set out to find the murderer--never anticipating how close to home that investigation will lead.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"For Black History Month, Ana & Andrew join a research group at the Community Center. They learn many interesting things about Martin Luther King Jr. Later, with the help of some other children, they make one of Martin's famous dreams come true"--Publisher's description.
11) Eb & Flow
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: A ten-day suspension has tweens De'Kari and Ebony seeing the world with a fresh perspective. Don't miss this poignant novel in verse from the award-winning author of Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero.
12) Honoring heroes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Ana & Andrew think they have seen every fun place in their hometown of Washington, DC. They are surprised when Papa takes the family to a spot they haven't visited! There, they honor an ancestor who fought for freedom.
Author
Series
Gaither sisters volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother, Big Ma, and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that's been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible.
14) Home run
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Ana & Andrew are finally old enough to play team sports! Andrew tries out for the baseball team. When he is nervous before his first game, Papa tells him to think of Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play modern Major League Baseball.
15) Planting peanuts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Ana & Andrew get to start a backyard garden. They go along to the nursery to pick up peanut seedlings. While they're planting, Mama and Papa tell them about one of the first African American botanists, George Washington Carver"--Publisher's description.
16) The magic violin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ana & Andrew are learning to play the violin! They are excited to join the youth orchestra. At first it is fun. But when they start to lose interest, Ana & Andrew learn from an important African American about the importance of practicing.
17) A walk in Harlem
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Papa surprises Ana & Andrew with a day trip to Harlem in New York City. They visit places where famous African American artists lived, wrote, and played during the Harlem Renaissance"--Publisher's description.
19) That flag
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Bianca is Keira’s best friend. At school, they are inseparable. But Keira questions their friendship when she learns more about the meaning of the Confederate flag hanging from Bianca’s front porch. Will the two friends be able to overlook their distinct understandings of the flag? Or will they reckon with the flag’s effect on yesterday and today?
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Novah feels like her life has been put on hold, taking care of her four younger siblings while her older sister Ariana gets to play volleyball and hang out--but when their parents are killed in a car crash Ariana and Novah will have to learn to cooperate.
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