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African American families Juvenile fiction African American girls African American girls Juvenile fiction African Americans Fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction Filles noires américaines Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Friendship Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Grandmothers Juvenile fiction Stories in rhymeSmith, 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMIHarris, Kai
Summary: "What the Fireflies Knew follows KB after her father dies of an overdose and the debts incurred from his addiction cause the loss of the family home in Detroit. Soon thereafter, KB and her teenage sister, Nia, are sent by their overwhelmed mother to live with their estranged grandfather in Lansing, Michigan. Over the course of a single sweltering summer, KB attempts to navigate a world that has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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Summary: "When her sister, Rose, disappeared, seventeen-year-old Emmy lost a part of herself. Everyone else seems convinced she ran away and will reappear when she's ready, but Emmy isn't so sure. That doesn't make sense for the Rose she knew: effervescent, caring, and strong-willed. So Emmy returns to their Ohio hometown for a summer, determined to uncover clues that can lead her back to Rose once and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EVEBurch, Ciera
Summary: Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother lives--someone she knows only two things about: her name and the fact that she left Jericka's mother and uncle when they were children. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024
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Summary: When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help Avery get the recognition she craves, and it will also be a good idea for the school project about the history of her small North Carolina town, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction BrownPinkney, Andrea Davis
Summary: Brimming with love and affirmation, this sweet board book shows bright brown baby girls and little ones everywhere that they can do anything. With bouncing, rhythmic text from New York Times bestselling author Andrea Davis Pinkney and tender, charming illustrations from Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator Brian Pinkney, this inspirational ode is the perfect way to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD PINLockington, Mariama
Summary: While twelve-year-old Andi has suffered from anxiety attacks ever since her mother died ten months ago, Zora starting hurting herself whenever she feels out of control; they are both at Camp Harmony, an elite summer music camp, trying to deal with their problems and also the stress of competition--but as the summer passes they find themselves increasingly drawn to each other, and maybe not just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOCMcQuinn, Anna
Summary: Lola plants a flower garden with her parent's help, and watches it grow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2014
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Summary: Keyana's latest big idea is to have backyard movie soiree for all her relatives! When her twin cousins' fighting knocks over the projector movie night seems heading for disaster-- until Keyana comes up with an even better idea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TARMcBride, Amber
Summary: In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue -- the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often - he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too, she wants to know why she feels so Blue and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCBBarron, Rena
Summary: Twelve-year-old Maya's search for her missing father puts her at the center of a battle between our world, the Orishas, and the mysterious and sinister Dark world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BAREnglish, Karen
Summary: Malika loves her new red shoes and wears them everywhere, but eventually she outgrows them, and her grandmother takes them to a second-hand shop--where they will become a special present for Amina (who fasted half the month of Ramadan) in Africa, who willenjoy her special red shoes every bit as much as Malika did.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ENGMaddox, Jake
Summary: Davalyn Hart was born with spina bifida, but she is determined not to let that define her, and, being a daredevil, she has taken up the sport of wheelchair motocross; now that she has a brand new, specially designed, wheelchair she is ready to fly--until a bad fall while trying to impress another player shakes her confidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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Summary: In rhyming text, Princess Truly visits the science museum with her brother, solves the mystery of her missing snack, and uses her magic curls to take a trip to outer space with her pug, Sir Noodles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JBR GREEN GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN GREJohnson, Angela
Summary: "Maya and Julius, the pig her grandfather brings her from Alaska, learn about fun and sharing together"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JOHGreenawalt, Kelly
Summary: In rhyming text super girl Princess Truly goes on a camping trip with little brother Ty and her dog, Sir Noodles; with her super powers she is not afraid of dark caves, bugs, or things that go bump in the night, which is a problem when she develops hiccups, and needs something to scare them away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic Inc. 2021
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Summary: "When taking cornbread to Grandma, Mahogany encounters a hungry wolf and outsmarts him by cleverly hiding in the woods and using her sewing skills to trap him"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BROChase, Paula
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Marigold's family owns Flexx Unlimited, a hip-hop lifestyle company, and she attends the elite school Flowered Arms Academy, but she has never felt entirely comfortable in the mostly White school, and she prefers to hang out with Justice, relatively new to the school, but a star basketball player; so enrolling in Style High with him, a trainee program funded by Mari's family,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: It's hatching season and Jemison Elementary is buzzing about the arrival of the baby chicks. Fifth-grader Jillian must learn to speak and break free of her shell to enter her school's competition and keep her promise to her grandmother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLWinston, Sherri
Summary: When Maggie learns that her father has a second daughter, Callie, she won't let a new family member get in the way of her summer plans with best friend Daija. They are determined to make tons of money braiding hair for kids around the neighborhood.Daija doesn't want Callie to interfere with their new Braid Girls business-- she needs the money to pay for extra ballet lessons so she can earn a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WINSmith, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMIColbert, 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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Summary: "When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, after all, who left Lambert in a cloud of shame. But the letter describes a young African American woman named Siobhan Washington. An injustice that happened decades ago. A mystery enfolding the letter writer. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle. Grandma tried and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC JOHWinston, Sherri
Summary: Seventh-grader Sharkita "Kita" embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2024