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African Americans Biography African Americans Juvenile fiction Fire extinction Fiction Heroes Fiction Love songs 1951-1960 Rock music 1951-1960 Stories in rhyme United States Woodson, Carter Godwin 1875-1950 Books and reading Juvenile literature Woodson, Carter Godwin 1875-1950 Juvenile literatureTate, Don
Summary: "From acclaimed author and illustrator Don Tate, the rousing story of Ernie Barnes, an African American pro football player and fine artist"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BARTate, Don
Summary: Presents the life of black abolitionist William Still, son of an escaped slave, who helped his people through his work with Philadelphia's Anti-slavery Society and the Underground Railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2020
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Summary: An African American girl contemplates the many wonderful black things around her, from the inside of a pocket, where surprises hide, to the cozy night where there is no light.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HUBSlade, Suzanne
Summary: Presents the history of the Harlem Globetrotters, from their inception as a Chicago basketball team and their development into the Globetrotters to their growth into an international phenomenon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.323 SLABarton, Chris
Summary: A cool idea with a big splash. You know the Super Soaker. It’s one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for refrigerators and air conditioners, impressive inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the iconic toy. A love for rockets, robots, inventions, and a mind for creativity began early in Lonnie...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: Looks at the cart that pulled Dr. King's body through Atlanta on the day of his funeral, showing the effect he had on people and the nation at large.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE America BuntingHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: "Carter G. Woodson was born ten years after the end of the Civil War, to parents who had both been enslaved. Their stories were not the ones written about in history books, but Carter learned them and kept them in his heart. Carter's father could not read or write, but he believed in being an informed citizen. So Carter read the newspaper to him every day, and from this practice, he learned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WOOBlue, Rose.
Summary: One summer day in 1959, nine-year-old Ron McNair, who dreams of becoming a pilot, walks into the Lake City, South Carolina, public library and insists on checking out some books, despite the rule that only white people can have library cards. Includes facts about McNair, who grew up to be an astronaut.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Childrens Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BLUMahin, Michael James.
Summary: "The fictionalized story about a group of starving, homeless kids in 1890s New Orleans who made their own instruments and started a band that historians now consider an important step in the development of jazz"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAHRinker, Sherri Duskey
Summary: Roto the helicopter and her pilot, Roy, fight a forest fire and rescue a dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RINContents: Too young / Nat King Cole -- Wild, wild young men / Ruth Brown -- Seventeen / Boyd Bennett and his Rockets -- Teenage prayer / Gale Storm -- Boogie woogie teenage / Don Julian and the Meadowlarks -- Teenage mambo / The Gaylarks -- Teenage partner / Gene Vincent -- Teenage crush / Tommy Sands -- I'm not a juvenile delinquent / Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers -- Teenage party / Tommy Steele --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011