Curtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CURVerde, Susan
Summary: With its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie's kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce in her small African village. And try as she might, Gie Gie cannot bring the water closer; she cannot make it run clearer. Every morning, she rises before the sun to make the long journey to the well. Instead of a crown, she wears a heavy pot on her head to collect the water....
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VERSummary: Black girls, including gender non-conforming individuals, star in this collection of sixteen stories of fantasy, science fiction, and magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PHOWilliams, Michael
Summary: "When Patson's family moves to [the] Marange region of Zimbabwe, he begins working in the mines, searching for blood diamonds, until government soldiers arrive and Patson is forced to journey to South Africa in search of his missing sister and a better life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WILAnderson, Natalie C.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ANDSambury, Liselle
Summary: After failing to come into her powers, sixteen-year-old Voya--a Black witch living in near-future Toronto--is forced to choose between losing her family's magic forever, a heritage steeped in centuries of blood and survival, or murdering her first love, a boy who is supposedly her genetic match.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAMCurtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CURCurtis, Christopher Paul.
Summary: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CURMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: Staying with Aunty Bee at a safari camp in the Botswana countryside where a film crew is 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MCCGoka, Ruby Yayra
Summary: Ghana. Eldest of four girls, Amerley is offered a job working for one of her mother's old school friends. She has to accept: her wages will feed her family, help her sisters stay in school, and ensure that her mother won't have to worry about them. Amerley's move to Accra isn't easy, but she soon settles into her new life away from her small village-- until she is raped by the son of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOKLansens, Lori.
Summary: When she volunteers to take in five-year-old Sharla Cody for the summer, eighty-year-old Addy Shadd forms a powerful bond with Sharla that prompts her to recollect her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANAdichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Summary: Chino loves the scarf her mother ties around her hair at night, and takes it on endless adventures during the day as a reminder of the ones she loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ADICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GRABildner, Phil.
Summary: Each time Hector watches white boys playing soccer in Johannesburg, South Africa, he dreams of playing on a real pitch one day and after the fall of apartheid, when he sees the 1996 African Cup of Nations team, he knows that his dream can come true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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Summary: In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FARPinkney, Andrea Davis
Summary: "After her tribal village is attacked by militants, Amira, a young Sudanese girl, must flee to safety at a refugee camp, where she finds hope and the chance to pursue an education in the form of a single red pencil and the friendship and encouragement ofa wise elder"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PINTaylor, Theodore
Summary: When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Yearling Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TAYSummary: "Glory Edim launches her Well-Read Black Girl Library with this vital anthology celebrating stories from such luminaries as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Since founding the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club in 2015, Glory Edim's profile has skyrocketed. From her roots in a Brooklyn-based community to a massive online following, she has been heralded as the literary tastemaker for a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONBaptiste, Tracey
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BAPBaptiste, Tracey.
Summary: Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAPHill, Reginald.
Summary: In England, an unemployed black lathe operator tries his hand at detective work, using knowledge gained from the movies. No shortage of work here. In no time he's got half a dozen cases, from dope trafficking to murder. By the author of Pictures of Perfection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILNyong'o, Lupita
Summary: When five-year-old Sulwe's classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but her encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is beauty in every shade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NYOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NYOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: Now stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny Nwazue, along with her friends from the the Leopard Society, travel through worlds, both visible and invisible, to the mysterious town of Osisi, where they fight in a climactic battle to save humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OKOWalker, David
Summary: "In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance is in full swing, and only the Sangerye Family, once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, can save New York -- and the world -- from the supernatural forces threatening to destroy humanity. But those days are fading and the once-great family that specialized in curing the souls of those infected by racism and hate has been torn apart by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BITHill, Lawrence
Summary: Dreaming of escaping her life of slavery in South Carolina and returning to her African home, slave Aminata Diallo is thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War, during which she helps create a list of black people who have been honored for their service to the king.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2007