Grady, Wayne
Summary: Virgil Moody vows to never be like his father, a slaveowner. He moves from Savannah to New Orleans and takes Annie with him. While he comes to think of her as his wife, she reminds him they'll never be equal. When their son Lucas is taken from them, Moody will travel through a country on the brink of civil war searching for Lucas, while trying to reconcile his past sins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Canada 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAReed, Dwayne
Summary: Chicago fifth-grader Simon, an aspiring rapper who lacks self-confidence, uses his rhymes to help bring his community together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC REEColbert, Brandy
Summary: In a predominately white California beach town, the only two black seventh-graders, Alberta and Edie, find hidden journals that uncover family secrets and speak to race relations in the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLEady, Antwan
Summary: A little boy is excited to work alongside his Papa as they collect eggs, plums, peppers and pumpkins to sell at their stand in the farmer's market, but when Papa cannot make it to the stand, his community gathers around him, with dishes made of his own produce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2024
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Summary: Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLEady, Antwan
Summary: A little boy is excited to work alongside his Papa as they collect eggs, plums, peppers and pumpkins to sell at their stand in the farmer's market, but when Papa cannot make it to the stand, his community gathers around him, with dishes made of his own produce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: "When Nigel looks up at the moon, his future is bright. He imagines himself as...an astronaut, a dancer, a superhero, too! Among the stars, he twirls. With pride, his chest swells. And his eyes, they glow. Nigel is the most brilliant body in the sky. Butit's Career Week at school, and Nigel can't find the courage to share his dreams. It's easy to whisper them to the moon, but not to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: As a brother and sister head for the market for birthday party supplies, they sing a song describing the city sights, sounds, and smells they pass along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SAYGray, Anissa
Summary: The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you. The Butler family has had their share of trials, as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest, but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives. Althea, the eldest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: With so many beautiful hairstyles to choose from like perms and locs, a little girl decides to get the freshest fade on the block.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRADeonn, Tracy
Summary: Llena de misterio y un sistema mágico intrigantemente rico, la fantasía contemporánea YA de Tracy Deonn reinventa la leyenda del Rey Arturo y "entrelaza las tradiciones populares sureñas y Black Girl Magic en una historia moderna y abrasadora de dolor, poder y autodescubrimiento" (Dhonielle Clayton, Autora superventas del New York Times de The Belles). Después de que su madre muere en un...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wonderbooks 2022
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Summary: "To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DEOGray, Libba Moore.
Summary: The eccentric Miss Tizzy, a beloved friend to all the children in her neighborhood, needs their help in remaining happy when she is sick in bed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1993
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Summary: "Traveling across the Mississippi Delta, Bo Willie searches blues landmarks like Dockery Farms and Beale Street for his missing dog.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: "When his friend RJ bets that Miles will wipe out at the ice rink, he is determined to prove him wrong."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LYOBond, Katherine Grace
Summary: On Valentine's Day during the sixties, Marcus, an African-American boy in a newly integrated school, uses St. Valentine as a role model to heal the hate in his classroom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2001
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E BonBaldwin, James
Summary: Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. Baldwin's only children's book celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood. This new edition includes a foreword by Baldwin's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BALPhillips, Gary
Summary: "Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2024
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Summary: An account of the life of Bass Reeves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2006