Hannah-Jones, Nikole
Summary: Stymied by her unfinished family tree assignment for school, a young girl seeks Grandma's counsel and learns about her ancestors, the consequences of slavery, and the history of Black resistance in the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HANOdetta
Contents: John Henry -- Old cotton fields at home -- The frozen logger -- Run, come see Jerusalem -- Old Blue -- Water boy -- Santy Ana -- I was born about 10,000 years ago ; The biggest thing -- The car-car song -- No more cane on the Brazos -- Pay day at Coal Creek -- I've been 'buked and I've been scorned -- Rock Island Line -- Another man don' gone -- Children go where I send thee -- I know where I'm...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantasy 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK ODEStine, R. L.
Summary: Rotten School schemer Bernie Bridges is determined that Rotten House will beat Nyce House in the annual talent contest.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STIFolksmiths
Contents: Lord, I've got some singing to do -- Hava Na Shira -- John Henry -- Old Hannah -- Glory be to the new-born king -- Come up horsey -- Three white gulls -- Mary had a baby -- Sinner man -- Blood-strained banders -- Hold on (Keep your hand on the plow) -- Kum Ba Yah -- Wade in the water -- Run to Jesus -- Hey Langor -- Tina -- All night long.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK FOLCisneros, Sandra.
Summary: The story of a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, she is able to rise above hopelessness and create a quiet space for herself in the midst of her oppressive surroundings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1991
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Contents: Walk On The Water (Album Version) (4:39) -- Susie Q (Album Version - (Part 2)) (4:01) -- Born On The Bayou (Album Version) (5:15) -- Good Golly Miss Molly (Album Version) (2:42) -- Tombstone Shadow (Album Version) (3:37) -- Wrote A Song For Everyone (Album Version) (4:55) -- The Night Time Is The Right Time (Album Version) (3:07) -- Cotton Fields (Album Version) (2:56) -- It Came Out Of The Sky...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantasy Records 2006
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Summary: "Join the Cat, Nick, and Sally as they-- Pretend to be pirates by following a treasure map--and find some treasure of their own! Meet Salmon Sam--and journey with her upstream to lay eggs in the same pool where she was born! See how trees send seeds flying through the air, floating on water, and hitching rides on animals to avoid overcrowding! Play sniff and seek with Whiffy the skunk (a guy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: NCircle Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD Juv CaCallender, Kheryn
Summary: Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CALContents: Paymaster-Captives -- Guess who's coming to dinner -- We got love -- Left with a broken heart -- Halfway up the stairs -- Westbound train -- My heart is clean-gate number -- Blood and fire -- Rock on -- Saturday night -- Mr. Richman -- Well hot -- Temptation, botheration and tribulation -- Weeping-water rate -- Teach them love -- Live after you -- Rasta no born yah.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Heartbeat 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE ROCSummary: This program gives viewers a spectacular glimpse of the tumultuous first billion years of Planet Earth—a time of continuous catastrophe. Vivid animation lets viewers witness the traumatic birth of the Moon from a titanic collision between Earth and an object believed to have been the size of Mars. Bombarded by meteors and comets, rocked by massive volcanic eruptions, and scoured by hot acid...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: This program documents the exploits of John Wesley Powell, a professor who led a three-month exploration of the Colorado River in 1869 to document the area's rocks, plants, and animals.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Depicts day-to-day lives of the doctors and nurses of Chicago's most cutting-edge trauma center.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ch 3Taylor, Koko.
Contents: Mother nature (4:41) -- If I can't be first (3:40) -- Hound dog (5:33) -- Born under a bad sign (6:22) -- Let the juke joint jump (6:08) -- 63 year old mama (4:29) -- Don't put your hands on me (2:53) -- Bad case of loving you (4:23) -- Fish in dirty water (5:45) -- Tit for tat (4:31) -- Put the pot on (3:48) -- Nothing takes the place of you (4;41) -- Spellbound (4:07) -- Greedy man (3:27).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alligator 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES TAYSimon, Paul
Contents: The obvious child (4:24) -- The boy in the bubble / Paul Simon, Forere Motloheloa (5:50) -- She moves on (6:19) -- Kodachrome (3:57) -- Born at the right time (5:02) -- Train in the distance (4:43) -- Me and Julio down by the school yard (2:56) -- I know what I know / Paul Simon, General M.D. Shrinda (4:39) -- The cool, cool river (5:42) -- Bridge over troubled water (5:09) --Proof (5:27) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SIMMcGuinn, Roger.
Contents: I'm so restless (3:07) -- My new woman (2:36) -- Draggin' (3:38) -- The water is wide (3:07) -- Same old sound (3:29) -- Bag full of money (2:37) -- Gate of horn (2:13) -- Peace on you (4:04) -- Lover of the Bayou (3:22) -- Stone (The Lord loves a rolling stone) (3:03) -- Lisa (2:00) -- Take me away (3:01) -- Jolly Roger (4:58) -- Friend (2:07) -- Dreamland (5:20) -- Dixie highway (3:27) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1991