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African Americans Fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction Books and reading Juvenile fiction Libraries Juvenile fiction Noirs américains Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Patriotism Fiction Perseverance (Ethics) Fiction Picture books Picture books for children Self-esteem FictionNoel, Melvina
Summary: Mama takes her two daughters to the library every summer to pick out books about Black people so they can see the struggles, strength, and hope of people who look like them. Mama's Library Summers is a moving picture book tribute to a strong Black mother, libraries, and the power of reading and of seeing oneself in books. Every summer, Mama takes her two daughters to the library to pick out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids, an imprint of Abrams 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE NOERowe, Kelis
Summary: Sparks fly when teens Orion and Ray meet for the first time at a roller rink in Memphis, but these star-crossed souls have a past filled with secrets that threaten to tear them apart before their love story even begins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROWWilliams-Garcia, Rita.
Summary: In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WILWilliams-Garcia, Rita
Summary: Feeling most alive when he's playing the blues with his grandfather, Clayton is devastated when his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing music, losses that compel him to run away and join bluesmen on the road.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILCornwall, Gaia
Summary: Jabari is inventing a machine that will fly all the way across the yard! But making it go from CRASH to WHOOSH will take grit, patience, and maybe even a little help from his sister. Jabari is making a flying machine in his backyard! "It'll be easy. I don't need any help," he declares. But it doesn't work! Jabari is frustrated. Good thing Dad is there for a pep talk and his little sister, Nika,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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Summary: "America, do you love me? A single question from a single child multiplies across the country with every page turn, inviting in more and more children of color--and their questions"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021