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1881) Recitatif: a story
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this 1983 short story about race and the relationships that shape us through life, Twyla and Roberta, friends since childhood who are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem as they grow older, cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them.
1885) Stella stands alone
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Stella, orphaned just after the Civil War, fights to keep her family's plantation and fulfill her father's desire to turn land over to the people who have worked on it for generations, but first she must find her father's hidden deed and will.
1887) Baseball Heros
Author
Series
Pub. Date
uuuu
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Describes the lives of professional baseball players such as Jackie Robinson, Hank Greenburg, Fernando Valenzuela, and Ila Borders, and the obstacles they faced.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Jackie Ormes sees an opportunity, she takes it. She's a journalist, cartoonist, fashionista, philanthropist, and activist -- and she wants to use her artistry to bring joy and hope to Black people everywhere. But in post-World War II America, Black people are still being denied their civil rights, and Jackie has a dilemma: How can her art remain true to her signature Jackie joy, while also staying honest about the inequalities Black people have...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and career of the African-American author who grew up listening to stories and who carries on the storytelling tradition in his numerous and award-winning books.
1891) I am a super girl!
Author
Series
Publisher
Acorn/Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text Princess Truly, super girl, uses her super powers to help her friend Lizzie celebrate her cat's first birthday, and when things go a little wrong, she gives Lizzie the confidence to believe that she too is a super girl.
Publisher
Barton County Historical Society
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Outside the Hoisington, Kansas, city limits, South Hoisington (South Homestead Township) has been home to primarily African Americans and Hispanics during the 20th century. This work examines the people and institutions that shaped the South Hoisington community, blending historical research with first-person accounts that allow former residents to tell their own stories of the former community's people, business establishments, controversies, and...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discover the true story of NFL star Ernie Barnes -- a boy who followed his dreams and became one of the most influential artists of his generation with this beautifully illustrated nonfiction picture book.
1895) Let's talk about love
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads, an imprint of Feiwel and Friends and Macmillan Publishing Group LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In this young adult novel, Alice, afraid of explaining her asexuality, has given up on finding love until love finds her.
Alice's last girlfriend, Margo, ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual. Now Alice is sure she's done with dating ... and then she meets Takumi. She can't stop thinking about him or the rom-com-grade romance feelings she did not ask for. When her blissful summer takes an unexpected turn and Takumi becomes her knight with...
Author
Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It's the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive. But when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs...
1897) The last full measure
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1863 Pennsylvania, fourteen-year-old Tacy faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg while trying to stay out of the way of her brother David, who is in charge while their father serves as a doctor in the Union army, and to keep her friend Marvelous, a free Black, safe from rebel soldiers.
1898) Coming 2 America
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Shortly before his father's death, Prince Akeem learns that he sired an illegitimate son during his last stay in the United States and now he has to return to Queens to retrieve him to ensure a male successor to the throne.
1899) Alex Haley
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life and times of the African American author who gained recognition for his book, "Roots."
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks who became the youngest known child to be arrested for picketing against Birmingham segregation practices in 1963.
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