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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

Summary: In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Woodlawn 2016

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOO RATED PG

Latham, Irene

Summary: Ten-year-old African American boy wants to welcome the circus elephant named Miss Fancy to her new home in a nearby park, but he is disappointed to see a sign: "No Colored Allowed."

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020

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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Fiction Latham 2020

Latham, Irene

Summary: Ten-year-old African American boy wants to welcome the circus elephant named Miss Fancy to her new home in a nearby park, but he is disappointed to see a sign: "No Colored Allowed".

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LAT

Moses, Shelia P.

Summary: Rufus Jackson Jones is from Birmingham, the place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the most segregated place in the country. A place that in 1963 is full of civil rights activists including Dr. King. The adults are trying to get more attention to their cause--to show that separate is not equal. Rufus's dad works at the local steel factory, and his mom is a cook at the mill. If they participate...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022

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

Grier, David Alan

Summary: When an Africn American family from Michigan visit their grandmother in Birmingham, Alabama during the summer of 1963 their lives are changed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anderson Merchandisers Lp 2013

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Watsons 2013

Curtis, Christopher Paul

Summary: The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African-American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CUR

Naslund, Sena Jeter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAS

Clark, Katherine

Summary: The Headmaster's Darlings is a satirical comedy of manners featuring the morbidly obese Norman Laney, an unorthodox, inspirational English teacher and college counselor for an elite private school in Mountain Brook, a privileged community outside of Birmingham. A natural wonder from blue-collar Alabama, Laney has barged into the exclusive world of Mountain Brook on the strength of his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of South Carolina Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Clark-Robinson, Monica

Summary: Under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, children and teenagers march against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CLA

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CLA

Head, Cheryl A.

Summary: "A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist's search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, decades ago-inspired by the author's own family history Birmingham, 1929: Robert Lee Harrington, a master carpenter, has just moved to Alabama to pursue a job opportunity, bringing along his pregnant wife and young daughter....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEA

Summary: On the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society the Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break social taboos as they muddle through a life decided by factors beyond their control. At times shocking and laced with an unsettling humor, three episodes unfold as a powerful evocation of the experience of growing up in a Black Country council flat.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kim Stim 2020

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAY

Heikkilä, Cecilia

Summary: Grandpa and Little Bear share a dream to visit Faraway Valley -- a special, hard-to-find place full of wild and wonderful creatures, a place where the air smells of pine needles, a place they've only seen on a postcard. The determined pair study maps, read books and practice camping to prepare for their adventure, then set sail for the long journey. But when they arrive in the north, they find...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HEI

Summary: Business is booming for Birmingham's Peaky Blinders gang, but that's not enough for its dangerous leader Tommy Shelby. As Shelby battles to keep a stronghold on his evil underworld, he risks his life encroaching on the turf of volatile gang leader Alfie Solomons.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: "Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed and await death"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHI

Summary: Famously leading a team of codebreakers, mathematician Alan Turing created a computer capable of breaking the codes devised by Germany's Enigma machine during WWII, significantly contributing to shortening the war, and saving millions of lives. Only a few years later, British authorities ignorant of his contributions convicted him for the crime of homosexuality, significantly contributing to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: Asa is a young Russian naval service dreamer who returns to his sister's nomadic brood on the desloate Hunger Steppe to begin a hardscrabble career as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must win the hand of the only eligible bachelorette for miles, his alluringly mysterious neighbor Tulpan. Accompanied by his girlie magazine-reading sidekick, Asa will stop at nothing to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2009

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TUL

Hickey, Caroline

Summary: On the last day of fifth grade, super-smart eleven-year-old Ginny learns that her father, who is a military ER doctor, is being deployed to Afghanistan, devastating news because they are already moving to another post in Maryland and Ginny depends on her father to help her manage her obsessions, panic attacks and general meltdowns; one of her obsessions is geographical facts, and somehow Ginny...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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

Maddox, Jake

Summary: Teenage ATV riders Josh and Christyna find that someone has been sabotaging the trails, putting the safety of ATV racers and mountain bikers in jeopardy, and they need to find out who is responsible and catch the cheat before the next race.

Format: text

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

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MAD

Fletcher, Jessica

Summary: "Jessica Fletcher's British cousin, Emma MacGill, will be traveling to Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, to perform with internationally famous star of stage, screen, and television Derek Braverman in an old-fashioned musical review. Emma would love for Jessica to join her there and suggests she bring along some friends. Having just finished her latest book, Jessica is ready for a vacation and is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FLE

Summary: Dramatic biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time, the brash, motor-mouthed athlete quickly dominates his sport, meets and marries his first wife, converts to Islam (changing his name from Cassius Clay), and defies the United States government by refusing to submit to military conscription for duty in Vietnam. His world heavyweight...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ALI

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Summary: While some journeys end, others are just beginning. Season Fourteen of Heartland finds horses healing Amy as much as Amy heals horses. While Amy struggles with a life-changing challenge, the entire town of Hudson will have to deal with an unexpected disaster that threatens to derail Lou's first term as mayor. But, the family will pull through together and be stronger as a result. Family is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: SDS 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV HEA

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HEA

Summary: Dramatic biography of Rosa McCauley Parks, who in 1955 created the spark that began the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROS

Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)

Summary: Ziggy and the other members of the Black Dinosaurs go to space camp where they learn about the space program and speculate about the existence of extraterrestrial beings.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2012

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

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