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Tales of young AmericansBrown, Monica
Summary: A powerful and accesible bilingual picture book that highlights "the power and impact of ordinary but dedicated citizens." Every day, thousands of farmworkers harvested the food that ended up on kitchen tables all over the country. But at the end of the day, when the workers sat down to eat, there were only beans on their own tables. Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up. Together they...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROBrathwaite, Lisa D.
Summary: "The life work of Eunice W. Johnson, co-founder of Ebony magazine and a visionary who championed Black elegance through the Ebony Fashion Fair--a cross-country fashion show fundraiser"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books Inc. 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOHLong, Michael G.
Summary: "This powerful and triumphant picture book biography tells the story of Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civils rights leader, who, with the support of Dr. King and future congressman John Lewis, led 250,000 people to the doorstep of the U.S. government demanding change"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million activists and demonstrators from every corner of the United States convened for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there that they raised their voices in unison to call for racial and economic justice for all Black Americans, to call out inequities, and ultimately to advance the Civil Rights Movement. Every movement has its unsung...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSWallace, Sandra Neil
Summary: "A picture book biography of Diane Nash, a Civil Rights Movement leader at the side of Martin Luther King and John Lewis. Born in the 1940s in Chicago, Diane went on to take command of the Nashville Movement, leading lunch counter sit-ins and peaceful marches. Diane decides to fight not with anger or violence, but with love. With her strong words of truth and actions, she works to stop...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NASBolden, Tonya
Summary: "Before there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The godmother of rock & roll started as a little girl from Arkansas with music in her air, in her hair, in her bones, wiggling her toes. With a big guitar in hand and a big voice in her soul, she grew into a rock & roll trailblazer in a time when women were rarely seen rocking out."--Front...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THAEngle, Margarita
Summary: "De niña, a Teresa Carreño le encantaba dejar que sus manos bailaran a lo largo de las hermosas teclas del piano. Si se sentía triste, la música le levantaba el ánimo y, cuando estaba feliz, el piano la ayudaba a compartir esa alegría. Pronto comenzó a escribir sus propias canciones y a tocar en grandes catedrales. Entonces, una revolución en Venezuela hizo que su familia tuviera que huir a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: J468 SPANISH ENGWittenstein, Barry
Summary: "The true story behind the writing of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINBrown, Monica
Summary: En este vibrante libro ilustrado bilingüe sobre la biografía del músico Tito Puente, los lectores bailarán al ritmo de la vida de este rey del mambo. A Tito Puente le encantaba golpear ollas y sartenes cuando era niño, pero lo que realmente soñaba era tener su propia banda algún día. Desde Spanish Harlem hasta los premios Grammy, y todos los ritmos intermedios, esta es la historia real de la...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROKunkel, Angela Burke
Summary: "A biography that follows the lives of Robert McCloskey, creator of Make Way for Ducklings, and sculptor Nancy Schön, whose famous bronze ducks grace Boston Public Garden"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 KUNFisher, Michelle Millar
Summary: The remarkable story of how Gilbert Baker and his friends created the iconic Rainbow Flag in 1978. -- amazon.com
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum of Modern Art 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Eggers, Dave
Summary: In this honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 EGGCline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) is a hero and trailblazer. She was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972). Written by award-winning author Lesa Cline-Ransome, here is her story"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHIKeller, Shana
Summary: Polly misses her father, a soldier fighting in France during World War I, and at home everything is rationed; Polly wants to do her part to help, so she and her friends organize a parade to collect peach pits which are used in the manufacture of gas masks.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JE FIC KELSanders, Rob
Summary: Describes the Stonewall Riots in New York City in 1969, which sparked the gay liberation movement in the United States, and details the history of LGBTQ rights since the riots.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.3 SANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.3 SANAlexander, Kwame
Summary: From the fireside tales in an African village, through the unspeakable passage across the Atlantic, to the backbreaking work in the fields of the South, this is a story of a people's struggle and strength, horror and hope. This is the story of American slavery, a story that needs to be told and understood by all of us. A testament to the resilience of the African American community, this book...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE ALECasilla, Robert
Summary: "This bilingual picture book for kids recalls Major League Baseball pitcher Mariano Rivera's childhood in Panama, his fascination with playing ball-even if he had to make his glove out of cardboard-and his eventual signing with the New York Yankees, where he helped win five World Series"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Piñata Books/Arte Público Press 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB 468 CAS Spanish/EnglishSorell, Traci
Summary: Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. This companion book to the award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American people's past, present, and future. Precise, lyrical writing presents topics including: forced assimilation (such as boarding schools), land...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.04 SORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.04 SORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Native SorellCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.04 SORFriddell, Claudia.
Summary: When Joseph Pulitzer first saw the Statue of Liberty's head in Paris, he shared sculptor Auguste Bartholdi's dream of seeing France's gift of friendship stand in the New York harbor. Pulitzer loved words, and the word he loved best was liberty. Frustrated that many, especially wealthy New Yorkers, were not interested in paying for the statue's needed pedestal, Pulitzer used his newspaper, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PULShetterly, Margot Lee
Summary: Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918- ), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942- ).
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Space ShetterlyCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SHESwanson, Shari
Summary: "In 1945, the attention of the United States, along with the rest of the world, was focused on World War II. After more than five years of fighting, downcast, war-weary people were looking for signs of hope of a better future. One April morning, a duck searching for a nesting spot lands on a tall post sticking out of the Milwaukee River. Situated near a busy drawbridge and the noisy city of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Kephart, Beth
Summary: "A picture book biography of legendary children's book editor, Ursula Nordstrom"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NORTakei, George
Summary: "Star Trek actor, activist, and author George Takei shares his empowering and moving story about growing up in Japanese American incarceration camps during WWII"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2024
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TAKRose, Caroline Starr
Summary: In 1889, New York reporter Nellie Bly, inspired by Jules Verne's book Around the World in 80 Days, began an around-the-world journey that she hoped to complete in less time. Her trip was sponsored by her employer, the newspaper The World. Just hours after her ship set out across the Atlantic, the publisher of The Cosmopolitan magazine put writer Elizabeth Bisland on a westbound train. Bisland...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019