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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J SHA
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J SHA
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Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J RHO
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J RHO
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J RHO
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J RHO
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Playaways - Junior (2nd floor Children's Area)
SMP-J RHO
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SMP-J RHO
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Playaways - Junior (2nd floor Children's Area)
SMP-J RHO
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SMP-J RHO
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Suspended unjustly from elite Middlefield Prep, Donte Ellison studies fencing with a former champion, hoping to put the racist fencing team captain in his place.
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A collection of short stories explore what it is like to be young and black, centering on the experiences of black teenagers and emphasizing that one person's experiences, reality, and personal identity are different than someone else.
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Everybody Books (2nd floor Children's Area)
E JOY
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E JOY
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Everybody Books (2nd floor Children's Area)
E JOY
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E JOY
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"A child reflects on the meaning of being Black in this anthem about a people, a culture, a history, and a legacy that lives on"--
5) Blended
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J DRA
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J DRA
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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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An illustrated biographical compilation of over fifty African American women from the 1700s through to the present day.
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"The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South"--
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A little African American boy is teased for his color difference and longs to be like everyone else. Read and find out how he learns to accept himself just as he is.
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"For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. But adventure quickly turns...
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Display Towers - 2nd Floor
E BAR
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E BAR
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Everybody Books (2nd floor Children's Area)
E BAR
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E BAR
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Display Towers - 2nd Floor
E BAR
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E BAR
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Everybody Books (2nd floor Children's Area)
E BAR
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E BAR
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Celebrates the feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.
11) crown an ode to the fresh cut
This entry no longer exists in the catalog
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Junior - Nonfiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
JNF 973 GAT
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JNF 973 GAT
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Junior - Nonfiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
JNF 973 GAT
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JNF 973 GAT
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Playaways - Junior (2nd floor Children's Area)
SMP-J 973 GAT
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SMP-J 973 GAT
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Playaways - Junior (2nd floor Children's Area)
SMP-J 973 GAT
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SMP-J 973 GAT
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"This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, the renowned Harvard scholar delivers a book that is illuminating and timely. Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and Birth of a Nation. Here, you will...
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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.
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Spanish - Everybody Books (1st floor - World Languages)
SPA-E WOO
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SPA-E WOO
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First Spanish language edition.
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Spanish - Everybody Books (1st floor - World Languages)
SPA-E WOO
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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.
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"Organized as a dictionary, entries in this book for middle-grade readers present words related to creating a better, more inclusive world. Each word is explored via a poem, a quote from an inspiring person, and a short personal anecdote from one of the co-authors, a prompt for how to translate the word into action, and an illustration"--
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Aria loves her soft and bouncy hair, but must go to extremes to avoid people who touch it without permission until, finally, she speaks up. Includes author's note.
17) Finding Langston
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Finding Langston volume 1
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J CLI
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J CLI
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Playaways - Junior (2nd floor Children's Area)
SMP-J CLI
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Playaways - Junior (2nd floor Children's Area)
SMP-J CLI
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Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
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Playaways - Junior (2nd floor Children's Area)
SMP-J LOC
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Playaways - Junior (2nd floor Children's Area)
SMP-J LOC
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SMP-J LOC
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Eleven-year-old Makeda dreams of meeting her African American mother, while coping with serious problems in her white adopted family, a cross-country move, and being homeschooled.
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Zoe Washington stories volume 1
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"Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
J WIL
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J WIL
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Playaways - Junior (2nd floor Children's Area)
SMP-J WIL
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SMP-J WIL
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Playaways - Junior (2nd floor Children's Area)
SMP-J WIL
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SMP-J WIL
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This deeply sensitive and powerful debut novel tells the story of a thirteen-year-old who must overcome internalized racism and a verbally abusive family to finally learn to love herself. There are ninety-six things Genesis hates about herself. She knows the exact number because she keeps a list. Like #95: Because her skin is so dark, people call her charcoal and eggplant--even her own family. And #61: Because her family is always being put out of...