Jacqueline Woodson
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English
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Dyslexia Awareness Month - Youth
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Paperback
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Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Paperback
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In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South.
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English
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For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise there...
3) Harbor me
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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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English
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Back to School, More Titles - Children
Children's Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism and Resistance
Netflix Bookmarks - Celebrating Black Voices series
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Children's Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism and Resistance
Netflix Bookmarks - Celebrating Black Voices series
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Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
5) Remember us
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English
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"The summer before seventh grade, as the constant threat of housefires looms over her Brooklyn neighborhood, basketball-loving Sage is trying to figure out her place in her circle of friends, when a new kid named Freddy moves in"--
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2019.
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English
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"Two familes from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier,...
11) Show way
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English
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Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
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The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
13) Visiting day
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Black History Month - Children
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People K-2 2023
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Storytime @ Home: Family and Friends
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People K-2 2023
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Storytime @ Home: Family and Friends
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"By heeding their wise grandmother's advice, a brother and sister discover the ability to lift themselves up and imagine a better world"--
17) Feathers
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Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
18) Pecan pie baby
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Pride Month - Children
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Storytime @ Home: Family and Friends
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Storytime @ Home: Family and Friends
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When Mama's pregnancy draws attention away from Gia, she worries that the special bond they share will disappear forever once the baby is born.
19) Locomotion
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.