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Butler-Ngugi, Anitra

Summary: "It's May 1963, and twelve-year-old Nina Norris is answering a call from civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama. Black Americans are demanding the right to vote, but adults who protest risk losing their jobs. So, children are protesting in their place. As Nina prepares for her day, she knows she will likely be arrested and put in jail, but it's a price she is willing to pay so that all...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2024

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BUT

Headen, Sandra W.

Summary: In 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team "trespasses" on the whites-only baseball field, and the resulting racial outrage can only be resolved on the mound.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HEA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HEA

Armand, Glenda

Summary: During the Great Migration in 1930's Louisiana, eight-year-old Jenny tries to understand why a man named Jim Crow is making trouble for her family.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARM

Smith, Nikki Shannon

Summary: Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMI

Phelan, Matt

Summary: In 1783 France, ten-year-old Emile works as Benjamin Franklin's caretaker, but after he finds himself in the middle of a sinister plot, he helps France's undercover guardians, a sheep, a rooster and a duck save the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PHE

Henderson, Eleanor

Summary: "Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HEN

Thomas, Kai

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist and activist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by veterans of the War of 1812 and refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south--whose agents do not always stay on their side of the border. One night, a neighbouring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Canada 2023

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Reasoner, James.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cumberland House Pub. 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REA

Taylor, Mildred D.

Summary: Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year -- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she's black -- to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It is the land that gives the Logans their courage and pride -- no matter how others may...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TAY

Mangel, C. P.

Summary: "When Titus Horace, successful African American author, inherits a large tract of land, he leaves Chicago with his Jewish wife Ardene and their daughter Asa, and moves to the segregated North Carolina of 1950. Unhappy at being uprooted from her school and friends, Asa quickly learns how persons of color are intimidated and humiliated on a daily basis and how, despite their education and talent,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mangel 2019

LeZotte, Ann Clare

Summary: "As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America!...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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O'Connor, Joseph

Summary: "Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCO

Gwin, Minrose

Summary: A devastating tornado rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression. Dovey, a black laundress, searches for her family. At the McNabb house she find the daughter of the house, Jo, who suffered a head wound. When a baby is found in the wreckage is it Jo's baby brother, Tommy, or Dovey's light-skinned great-grandson, Promise? The two women-- one black, one...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GWI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gwin 2018

Johnson, Kim

Summary: In 1955, a Black family relocates to the suburbs where they must pass for white, but dark secrets about the town and its inhabitants threaten their new home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024

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Inouye Huey, Emily

Summary: With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INO

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INO

Bundy, Tamara

Summary: After moving with her mother and deaf brother to Grandma's small Georgia town in the 1960s, Alice copes with feelings of isolation by befriending the elderly black woman who lives next door

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Bundy 2017

Lee, Harper.

Summary: Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days come to an end when a black man in town is accused of raping a white woman, and her father is the only man willing to defend him.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers/Caedmon 2006

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEE

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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEE

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Lee 2006

Novoa, Gabe Cole

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Oliver Bennet, trapped by societal expectations to live as female, discovers the possibility of love and freedom when he forms a connection with Darcy, but is faced with the choice of living a secure but inauthentic life or risking everything for true self-expression and love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Bywaters, Grant

Summary: "Newly-minted private investigator William Fletcher is having trouble finding clientele. He's not the only man out of work [during the Depression], but his past as a former heavyweight contender with a few shady connections--not to mention the color of his skin in race-obsessed New Orleans--isn't helping lure clients to his door. Stuck without any viable alternative, he takes a case from an old...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYW

Steel, Danielle.

Summary: This centuries-spanning novel interweaves the lives of two women: a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is a story of courage in the face of the unknown.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

Lombardo, A. G.

Summary: Its August 1965 and Los Angeles is scorching. Americo Monk, a street-haunting aficionado of graffiti, is frantically trying to return home to the makeshift harbor community (assembled from old shipping containers) where he lives with his girlfriend, Karmann. But this is during the Watts Riots, and although his status as a chronicler of all things underground garners him free passage through the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOM

Minnicks, Jamila

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "It's 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. She falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup's status quo and could lead to the young couple's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MIN

Powell, Patricia Hruby

Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA FIC POW

Steel, Danielle

Summary: Audrey Parker's life changes forever when Pearl Harbor is attacked on December 7, 1941. Her brother, a talented young Navy pilot, had been stationed there, poised to fulfill their late father's distinguished legacy. Fresh out of nursing school with a passion and a born gift for helping others, both Audrey and her friend, Lizzie, suddenly find their nation on the brink of war. Driven to do...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC STE

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