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Jamela books volume 5
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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"The summer holidays are here and Jamela is bored as a girl can be! All she can think about is the Afro-Idols TV final, so when she lands a job at Divine Braids hair salon, she can't believe her eyes when Afro-Idols celebrity Miss Bambi Chaka Chaka arrives at the salon to be coiffed. But while Jamela's idol dozes and Aunt Beauty designs her starry hairdo, a buzzy fly appears on the scene and threatens to ruin everything... Can creative Jamela save...
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"Some people have dresses for every occasion, but Afiya needs only one. Her dress records the memories of her childhood, from roses in bloom to pigeons in flight, from tigers at the zoo to October leaves falling. A joyful celebration of a young girl's childhood"--
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"From Kahran and Regis Bethencourt, the husband and wife duo behind CreativeSoul Photography, comes Glory, a photography book that shatters the conventional standards of beauty for Black children. Featuring a foreword by Amanda Seales with images of natural hair and inventive visual storytelling, Glory puts Black beauty front and center with more than 100 photographs and a collection of essays about the children."--
26) Where's Jamela?
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Jamela books volume 3
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When Mama gets a new job and a new house, everyone is excited about moving except Jamela, who likes her old house just fine.
28) The herd boy
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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While doing a good job of caring for his grandfather's sheep and goat on the grasslands of South Africa, young Malusi dreams of everything from owning his own dog to becoming president one day.
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2018.
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English
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"[T]his collection of ... stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era .... Some [stories] are darkly humorous--from two mothers exchanging snide remarks through notes in their kids' backpacks, to the young girl contemplating how best to notify her Facebook friends of her impending suicide--while others are devastatingly poignant--a new mother and funeral singer who is driven to madness with grief for the young...
32) Ikenga
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2020.
Language
English
Description
In southeastern Nigeria, twelve-year-old Mnamdi is determined to avenge his police chief father, who was murdered while triyng to rid the town of criminals, but Nnamdi feels powerless until he receives a magical object which gives him superpowers.
33) Can't scare me!
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A fearless little boy ignores Grandma's warning about nighttime monsters until he runs away and meets the two-headed giant's three-headed brother.
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2014.
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English
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Staying with Aunty Bee at a safari camp in the Botswana countryside where a film crew's making a movie about a lion, nine-year-old Precious Ramotswe and her resourceful new friend Khumo use their detective skills to find the movie star lion when he goes missing.
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The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 2
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English
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Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinee when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Forty years after John Edgar Wideman's first book of stories, comes this stunning collection that is vital reading for anyone interested in the state of America today. Its subjects range from Michael Jordan to Emmett Till, from distrust of authority to everyday grief, from childhood memories to the final day in a prison cell. A boy stands alone in his grandmother's house, unable to enter the room in which his grandfather's coffin lies, afraid the...
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[2020]
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Despite increasingly liberal world views, black hair continues to be erased, appropriated, and stigmatized to the point of taboo. Through her personal and historical journey, Emma Dabiri gleans insights into the way racism is coded in society's perception of black hair, and how it is often used as an avenue for discrimination.
39) Imani's moon
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Little Imani of the Maasai people longs to do something great, like touching the moon, but the other children just laugh at her.
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