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African Americans African Americans Juvenile fiction Asexuality (Sexual orientation) Fiction Crises économiques 1929 Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Depressions Logan family (Fictitious characters : Taylor) Mississippi Mississippi Relations raciales Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Prejudices Race relationsFilter By Subjects
African Americans African Americans Juvenile fiction Asexuality (Sexual orientation) Fiction Crises économiques 1929 Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Depressions Logan family (Fictitious characters : Taylor) Mississippi Mississippi Relations raciales Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Prejudices Race relationsSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOWeiss, Lynne
Summary: Readers take a colorful trip into the past to meet three African American who left indelible marks on U.S. history. Crispus Attucks was considered a martyr after his death at the Boston Massacre. Formerly enslaved Frederick Douglass became one of the most outspoken proponents of abolition and equal rights for African Americans. Harriet Tubman, also formerly enslaved, became perhaps the most...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. 2024
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 973.0496 WEIKann, Claire
Summary: Alice's last girlfriend, Margo, ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual. Now Alice is sure she's done with dating ... and then she meets Takumi. She can't stop thinking about him or the rom-com-grade romance feelings she did not ask for. When herblissful summer takes an unexpected turn and Takumi becomes her knight with a shiny library-employee badge, Alice has to decide if she's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Swoon Reads 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction KannTaylor, 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