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62) Hair story
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English
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Illustrations and rhythmic, rhyming text follow a Boricua girl and a Black girl from birth through early childhood, culminating in a playdate where they celebrate their natural hair.
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Jackson Greene novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Jackson Greene has a reputation as a prankster at Maplewood Middle School, but after the last disaster he is trying to go straight--but when it looks like Keith Sinclair may steal the election for school president from Jackson's former best friend Gabriela, he assembles a team to make sure Keith does not succeed.
65) Shortcut
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Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
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ALA Black Lives Matter, Black Literature Matters - Comics Reading List 2022
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
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Children taking a shortcut by walking along a railroad track find excitement and danger when a train approaches.
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English
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A fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely. Includes an author's note.
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Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 2
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English
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When a little boy wants terribly to be able to whistle for his dog the way big boys do, he tries very hard to learn how. That's what Peter did.
72) Money hungry
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Raspberry Hill novels volume 1
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English
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All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again.
73) Lucky beans
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English
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Marshall tries to figure out how many beans are in a jar to win his mother a new sewing machine.
74) Monster
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English
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
75) Crow
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English
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In 1898, Moses Thomas's summer vacation does not go exactly as planned as he contends with family problems and the ever-changing alliances among his friends at the same time as he is exposed to the escalating tension between the African-American and white communities of Wilmington, North Carolina.
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Vanderbeekers volume 3
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English
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The Vanderbeeker children, ages six to thirteen, race to help save their mother's baking business from closure after it fails an inspection.
77) Wagon wheels
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English
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Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
78) Quinnie Blue
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Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Hattie wonders about the activities of her grandmother Quinnie Blue when she was little.
79) I love my hair!
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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Netflix Bookmarks - Celebrating Black Voices series
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
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A young African American girl describes the different, wonderful ways she can wear her hair.
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