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1161) Matchmaker
Author
Series
Miles Lewis volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Miles and his friend Jada both plan on inviting their grandparents to help in science class, and with Valentine's Day approaching, they realize Miles's Nana and Jada's Pop Pop might be a perfect match."--
1162) Nature lover
Author
Series
Jada Jones volume 6
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Jada is thrilled when she gets to go on an outdoor class field trip with her grandfather, a nature lover, as a chaperone, and she looks forward to showing him off to her friends--and showing him what she knows.
1163) The other side of free
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1739, having escaped from slavery under the British, thirteen-year-old Jem finds himself in the custody of sharp-tongued Phaedra at Fort Mose in Spanish Florida, but his efforts to break free of Phaedra's will have surprising results.
1164) The meet-cute project
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
High school junior Mia, who hates romantic comedies, must endure the "meet-cute" encounters her best friends set up to help her find a date for her sister's wedding.
1165) The sleepwalking snowman
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 7
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Desmond and Andres face a snowman that was built by a schoolmate but seems to have a mind of its own, as well as a snowball-throwing bully.
1167) To catch a cheat
Author
Series
Jackson Greene novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Because of his reputation for practical jokes Jackson Greene is the automatic suspect for anything that goes wrong at school--but when he and his friends are framed for a crime they did not commit, Gang Greene sets out to expose the students responsible, who are trying to blackmail Jackson into helping them cheat on an important test.
1168) My rainbow
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Autism Acceptance Month - Children
Pride Month - Children
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Pride Month - Children
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Description
"A dedicated mom puts love into action as she creates the perfect rainbow-colored wig for her transgender daughter, based on the real-life experience of mother-daughter advocate duo Trinity and DeShanna Neal"--
1169) The reformatory: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead."--Publisher's description.
1170) One big open sky
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
1171) Song of the trees
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 1
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
During the Depression, a rural black family deeply attached to the forest on their land tries to save it from being cut down by an unscrupulous white man.
1172) Most valuable players
Author
Series
Rip and Red volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
With their fifth grade graduation only weeks away, Rip, Red, and the rest of their classmates must decide if boycotting a test is worth forfeiting their graduation gala and the opportunity to play with Hoops Machine, a Harlem Globetrotters-like team.
1173) Abby takes a stand
Author
Series
Scraps of time volume 1
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Gee recalls for her grandchildren what happened in 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee, when she, aged ten, passed out flyers while her cousin and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters to protest segregation.
1174) Sky watcher
Author
Series
Jada Jones volume 5
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Jada is excited to do a school project about her hero Dr. Mae C. Jemison until her research reveals how accomplished her hero truly is, making Jada feel like a failure in comparison.
1175) King of the ice
Author
Series
Miles Lewis volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"When his friend RJ bets that Miles will wipe out at the ice rink, he is determined to prove him wrong"--
1176) Here and now
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The story of two black sisters, each jealous of what the other has. Sister Marcella is a single mother with two children and is dreaming of a career. Sister Racquel has both husband and career, but is longing for a child, the couple undergoing treatment for infertility. The jealousy creates trouble between them. By the author of Behind Closed Doors.
1177) I am curious!
Author
Series
Princess Truly (An Acorn Book) volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
In rhyming text, Princess Truly visits the science museum with her brother, solves the mystery of her missing snack, and uses her magic curls to take a trip to outer space with her pug, Sir Noodles.
1178) How to love a pony
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A young Black equestrian and her pony enjoy the changing seasons of the year on a family horse farm"--
1179) Long road to freedom
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This time the mysterious box that Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way to the underground railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse is sold to a plantation further South.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Little John is proud of his mother's work as a stonecutter for a cathedral called "Big John," but struggles to understand the importance of spending so much time on one stone that no one will know Momma cut. Includes a history of New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
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