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1) Charmed life
Author
Series
Wildseed witch volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Language
English
Description
Now back at Riverbend Middle, social media loving tween Hasani tries to prove her former friend, and fellow witch, LaToya, is responsible for the recent chaos at school.
Author
Language
English
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2024 Audies
2024 Youth Media Awards
Caldecott Medal | Winners and Honorees | 2020-Current
NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Kids Books
2024 Youth Media Awards
Caldecott Medal | Winners and Honorees | 2020-Current
NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Kids Books
Formats
Description
A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
Language
English
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Description
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 16
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Description
Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.
Author
Language
English
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Description
1963, Birmingham, Alabama. After hearing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak, thousands of African American children volunteered to march for their civil rights. They protested the laws that kept black people separate from white people. Simple text and emotive illustrations bring to life this historic event, when-- facing fear, hate, and danger-- these children used their voices to change the world.
Author
Series
Ryan Hart novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
The Hart family of Portland, Oregon, faces many setbacks after Ryan's father loses his job, but no matter what, Ryan tries to bring sunshine to her loved ones.
Author
Language
English
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2023 Stoker Awards Final Ballot
2023 Youth Media Awards
Pura Belpré Award Winners 2013-2023 / Los ganadores del premio Pura Belpré: 2013-2023
2023 Youth Media Awards
Pura Belpré Award Winners 2013-2023 / Los ganadores del premio Pura Belpré: 2013-2023
Description
When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process.
Author
Language
English
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2020 Youth Media Awards: Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, and Printz!
Caldecott Medal | Winners and Honorees | 2020-Current
Children's Books for Juneteenth
Caldecott Medal | Winners and Honorees | 2020-Current
Children's Books for Juneteenth
Description
Alan looks forward to the annual family reunion at the farm where Daddy grew up, but everyone is supposed to share something special and Alan worries about arriving with empty hands.
12) Rebound
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Zoe Washington stories volume 1
Language
English
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2022-2023 OBOB 3rd-5th Grade
Amina's Voice Read-alikes
School Library Journal - Best Middle Grade Books of 2020
Tween Gold Hill Book Club Picks 2020 - 2021
Amina's Voice Read-alikes
School Library Journal - Best Middle Grade Books of 2020
Tween Gold Hill Book Club Picks 2020 - 2021
Description
"Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
15) David's drawings
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A shy African American boy makes friends with his classmates by drawing a picture of a tree.
17) Calling my name
Author
Language
English
Description
"Taja Brown, growing up in a conservative and tightly knit African American family, battles family expectations to discover a sense of self and find her unique voice and purpose"--
18) The Blackwoods
Author
Language
English
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Description
Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.
19) Harbor me
Author
Language
English
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Description
"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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