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Venditti, Robert

Summary: Seventh-grader Tristan Strong tumbles into the MidPass and, with allies John Henry and Brer Rabbit, must entice the god Anansi to come out of hiding and seal the hole Tristan accidentally ripped in the sky.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2022

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Mbalia, Kwame

Summary: The Strong family is having a reunion in New Orleans, and twelve-year-old Tristan is supposed to be keeping an eye on his younger cousin Terrance when several things happen at once: he sees his archenemy, King Cotton, and a mysterious girl grabs his magiccellphone--her name is Seraphine, and she seems to know everything about Tristan and the god Anansi (currently inhabiting the cellphone), and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MBA

Pizzoli, Tamara

Summary: Tallulah the Tooth Fairy, a black businesswoman who runs one of the most successful tooth collecting organizations in the world, finds herself unexpectedly stumped when six-year-old Ballard Burchell leaves a note instead of his tooth under his pillow.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019

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Leslie, Tonya

Summary: "When her Lower East Side, New York, neighborhood needs saving, a 13-year- old Black, super-genius transforms into her Marvel super hero alter-ego: Moon Girl! Her best friend Casey is there to manage her social media, and her giant red T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur, is by her side for muscle. Moon Girl is confident, determined, and ready for action in her turbo-powered roller skates"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LES

Evans, Shane.

Summary: Illustrations and brief text portray the events of the 1963 march in Washington, D.C., where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a historic speech.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2012

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE EVA

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EVA

Powell, Patricia Hruby

Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA FIC POW

Smith, Nikki Shannon

Summary: Azaleah loved her class field trip to the National Zoo in Washington D.C, and is looking forward to earning extra credit by building a diorama of a tiger in his natural habitat for extra credit--but before she can even begin her task she has to solve themystery of her younger sister's favorite missing stuffed animal because her parents and older sister are too busy and Tiana is ready to throw a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMI

Smith, Nikki Shannon

Summary: Third-grader Azaleah Lane has been chosen STEM lab monitor for the week, but on her first day Harry the lab guinea pig gets out of his cage and escapes, and Azaleah has to figure out a strategy to locate where in the room he is hiding and catch him; but she also has another problem--how to get Terrance to listen to Rose, Jamal, and herself and work with the group on their Rube Goldberg machine...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMI

Smith, Nikki Shannon

Summary: Azaleah's older sister Nia is going to be the star of the school musical but things keep going wrong at the rehearsals (missing batteries, disappearing props, microphones that suddenly do not work); Mr. Guidi, the director, blames the ghost of Thespis, but Azaleah suspects that somebody is actually sabotaging the play--and she is determined to use her detective skills to uncover the culprit,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMI

Woodson, Jacqueline.

Summary: Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War. A companion to the Woodson's other book entitled: Locomotion

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC WOO

Mbalia, Kwame

Summary: Seventh-grader Tristan must return to Alke and enlist the help of African gods and black folktale heroes when Nana is abducted from the Strong family farm in Alabama.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MBA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MBA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MBA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MBA

Iloh, Candice

Summary: Raised in a free-spirited home by two loving parents who encourage Cerulean to be their full self, they've got big dreams of moving cross-country to live off the grid with their friends after graduation. When a fight with a teacher spirals out of control, Cerulean impulsively drops out to avoid the punishment they fear is coming. Why wait for graduation to leave an oppressive capitalist system...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ILO

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ILO

Keats, Ezra Jack

Summary: The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KEA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: JE Set Spanish Keats 1962

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