Nelson, Kadir.
Summary: Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through the decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947. Illustrations from oil paintings by artist Kadir Nelson.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.357 NELNelson, Kadir.
Summary: A colorful interpretation of the spiritual song that promotes the message of faith and the importance of community.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NELNelson, Kadir.
Summary: A simple introduction to African-American history, from Revolutionary-era slavery up to the election of President Obama.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2011
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk Hist NelsonNelson, Kadir.
Summary: Presents a biography of the former South African president best known for his political activism and fight to end apartheid.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2013
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Summary: If you plant a carrot seed, carrots will grow, but what happens when you plant a seed of selfishness? Or kindness? While planting seeds in their garden, two animals learn the value of kindness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2020
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Summary: In this lush, acclaimed book, award-winning author-illustrator Kadir Nelson tells the story of global icon and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela in poignant free verse and glorious illustrations. It is the story of a young boy's determination to change South Africa, and of the struggles of a man who eventually became the president of his country. Mandela believed in equality for all...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018
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Summary: As Baby Bear tries to find his way home through the forest, he asks many different woodland creatures for help and finds that much of their advice is more comforting than helpful.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NELNelson, Kadir
Summary: While planting seeds in their garden, two animals learn the value of kindness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E NELRappaport, Doreen.
Summary: An introduction to the life and career of America's 16th president.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.092 RapShange, Ntozake.
Summary: This extraordinary union of poetry and monumental artwork captures the movement for civil rights in the United States, and honors it most elegant inspiration, Coretta Scott.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINFeelings, Tom
Summary: "Alex Haley's Roots awakened many Americans to the cruelty of slavery. The Middle Passage focuses attention on the torturous journey which brought slaves from Africa to the Americas, allowing readers to bear witness to the sufferings of an entire people"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 709 FEEKing, Martin Luther
Summary: Presents the text of the famous speech given on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. by Martin Luther King, Jr., complemented by paintings illustrating the ideals the civil rights leader described.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2012
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Summary: The story of Wangari Maathai, who in 1977 founded the Green Belt Movement, an African grassroots organization, and in 2004 was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2010
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Summary: ""Black Heroes of the Wild West" celebrates the extraordinary true tales of three black historical figures in the Old West: Mary "Stagecoach" Fields, a cardplaying coach driver; Bass Reeves, the first black Deputy S Marshall west of the Mississippi; and Bob Lemmons, a cowboy famous for his ability to tame mustangs"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TOON Graphics 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 978.78 SMINolen, Jerdine.
Summary: Unusual from the day she is born, Thunder Rose performs all sorts of amazing feats, including building fences, taming a stampeding herd of steers, capturing a gang of rustlers, and turning aside a tornado.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NOLTaylor, Mildred D
Summary: A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TAYWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TUBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE America WeatherfordSummary: Celebrate African American history with this historic collection of stories. Collection includes: Rosa ; Henry's freedom box ; Lincoln and Douglass ; and, Ellington was not a street. Bonus interview with Nikki Giovanni. Bonus interview with Ellen Levine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J811 ALELee, Spike.
Summary: A toddler's antics keep his mother busy as she tries to feed her, watch her on the playground, give her a bath, and put her to bed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEELevine, Ellen.
Summary: A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEVStaines, Bill.
Summary: Celebrates how all the animals in the world make their own music in their own way, some singing low, some singing higher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Oversized, Call number: J 782.42 STACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 782.42 STAJordan, Deloris.
Summary: Young Michael Jordan, who is smaller than the other players, learns that determination and hard work are more important than size when playing the game of basketball.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2003
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Summary: "A stirring poetic tribute to the beauty and wonder of America's symbols, history, landscape"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2017