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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2024 - Children
Black History Month - Tweens
Texas Topaz Nonfiction Gems 2024 (Gr. K-2)
Black History Month - Tweens
Texas Topaz Nonfiction Gems 2024 (Gr. K-2)
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A true story of determination and groundbreaking achievement follows eighth grade African American spelling champion MacNolia Cox, who left Akron, Ohio, in 1936 to compete in the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., only to be met with prejudice and discrimination.
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Language
English
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Children's Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism and Resistance
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Social Justice Reading List by BCALA & ALSC (PreK-Gr. 8)
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Social Justice Reading List by BCALA & ALSC (PreK-Gr. 8)
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Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big it began to overflow his house...
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