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1) Seeing red
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English
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When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
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English
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2021 National Book Award Longlists, Finalists, & WINNERS
2022 Youth Media Awards
Caldecott Medal | Winners and Honorees | 2020-Current
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2022 Youth Media Awards
Caldecott Medal | Winners and Honorees | 2020-Current
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"Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history"--Provided by publisher
On May 31 and June 1, 1921, an armed mob looted homes and businesses as Black families fled. The police did nothing to protect Greenwood, and as many as three hundred African Americans were killed, most buried in unmarked graves....
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
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English
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A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Amy Hill Hearth, bestselling author of Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters? First 100 Years, illuminates a lesser-known benchmark in the struggle for equality in the United States, while painting a vivid picture of the diverse Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan in the mid-1800s.
12) Blended
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English
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Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
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Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"In 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, fourteen year old Jo Ann Allen was one of twelve African-American students who broke the color barrier and integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee. At first things went smoothly for the Clinton 12, but then outside agitators interfered, pitting the townspeople against one another. Uneasiness turned into anger, and even the Clinton Twelve themselves wondered...
14) Paperboy
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
15) Night on fire
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English
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Billie Sims comes face to face with the horrors of racism when a group calling themselves the Freedom Riders travels through Anniston to protest segregation on buses. The town greets the Freedom Riders with violence and sets their bus on fire. Billie is left shocked by the actions of the town's people she thought she knew. Will Billie stand up and fight for what is right?
17) Glory be
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English
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In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
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