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Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Black History Month - JF
Historical Fiction- MID/ JF
If You Like Anne of Green Gables, Read These!
Womens History Month - JF
Historical Fiction- MID/ JF
If You Like Anne of Green Gables, Read These!
Womens History Month - JF
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With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan during the Great Depression.
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Series
Isaiah Dunn volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Now in middle school, Isaiah Dunn participates in a mentoring program, but he has a hunch that his mentee--a troublemaking third-grader name Kobe--has a secret and Isaiah is determined to get to the bottom of it.
6) Harbor me
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
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Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
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.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
From two heavy-hitters in children's literature comes a biographical novel of cultural icon Muhammad Ali. Before he was a household name, Cassius Clay was a kid with struggles like any other. Kwame Alexander and James Patterson join forces to vividly depict his life up to age seventeen in both prose and verse, including his childhood friends, struggles in school, the racism he faced, and his discovery of boxing. Readers will learn about Cassius' family...
10) Rebound
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
At only eight years old, J.D. the Kid Barber has already won a barber battle and appeared on local TV. Now he s the youngest barber to be invited to the Beauty Brothers Hair Expo in Atlanta! J.D. gets the VIP treatment he takes his first flight, rides in a limo for the first time, and gets gifts from the show s sponsors. At the show, there are hair classes to take, product samples to try, and some of J.D. s favorite hair influencers to meet. And,...
14) Not an easy win
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Nothing has gone right for twelve-year-old year old Lawrence since his Pop went away, but after getting expelled from school for fighting he discovers the world of chess and things begin to change.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Eight-year-old J.D. turns a tragic home haircut into a thriving barber business in this hilarious new illustrated chapter book series J.D. has a big problem--it's the night before the start of third grade and his mom has just given him his first and worst home haircut. When the steady stream of insults from the entire student body of Douglass Elementary becomes too much for J.D., he takes matters into his own hands and discovers that, unlike his mom,...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
For ten-year-old Cadence Jolly, birthdays are a constant reminder of all that has changed since her mother skipped town with dreams of becoming a singing star. Cadence inherited that musical soul, she can't deny it, but otherwise she couldn't be more different - she's as shy as can be. She did make a promise last year that she would try to break out of her shell, just a little. And she prayed that she'd get the courage to do it. As her eleventh birthday...
Author
Series
Tristan Strong volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Tristan Strong, just back from a victorious but exhausting adventure in Alke, the land of African American folk heroes and African gods, is suffering from PTSD. But there's no rest for the weary when his grandmother is abducted by a mysterious villain out for revenge.Tristan must return to Alke--and reunite with his loud-mouthed sidekick, Gum Baby--in order to rescue Nana and stop the culprit from creating further devastation. Anansi, now a "web developer"...
18) Freedom's price
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Series
Hidden histories volume 2
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"Dred Scott's daughter learns what it means to pay the price of freedom... Eleven-year-old Eliza Scott has a lot to live for. She and her family will soon be free. She is learning to read and write at a secret school. And she has a new friend she can share her dreams with. But when Eliza is confronted by vicious slave catchers, the spread of cholera, and a devastating fire, she is forced to come to terms with what it really takes to be on her own....
19) Elijah of Buxton
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Language
English
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In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
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