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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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Luqman-Dawson, Amina

Summary: After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LUQ

Weatherford, Carole Boston

Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEA

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARM

Luqman-Dawson, Amina

Summary: "Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his younger sister, unwillingly leaving their mother behind. Through tangled vines, hidden doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the swamp. In this society created by formerly enslaved people and some freeborn children, Homer finds new friends, almost...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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