Patrick, Denise Lewis.
Summary: Cécile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, makes friends with Marie-Grace Gardner, a doctor's daughter who has just returned to her native New Orleans in 1853, and persuades her to change places at their separate Mardi Gras balls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Patrick 2011Jones, Kyandreia
Summary: "The year is 1781 and George Washington is commanding thousands of troops in Yorktown, Virginia, on the brink of the most important battle of the war. You are James Armistead, a brave and literate enslaved person in Virginia. Marquis de Lafayette, one of Washington s key officers, approaches you with the most critical choice of your life: do you join the Revolutionary army as a top secret spy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chooseco 2019
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Summary: Celebrates the magnificent feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bolden, An Agate imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BARGrimes, Nikki.
Summary: Dyamonde is angry at her mother for not buying her the shoes she wants, but when she finds out that a classmate is in a worse situation, she is determined to help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GRIDraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1994
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DRAWatson, Renée
Summary: Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Watson 2017Winston, Sherri
Summary: "Working on an assignment for her journalism class, Brianna Justice learns about coding, and the difference between herself and a group of inner city girls"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WINDraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Ziggy and his friends form a clubhouse after someone vandalizes their basketball court, and they soon uncover a clue that may tell them who did it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DRAPaulsen, Gary.
Summary: An account of the life of Bass Reeves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION PaulsenRinaldi, Ann.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FICTION RinaldiJohnson, Angela
Summary: Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC JOHLatham, Irene
Summary: Ten-year-old African American boy wants to welcome the circus elephant named Miss Fancy to her new home in a nearby park, but he is disappointed to see a sign: "No Colored Allowed".
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LATAnderson, Laurie Halse.
Summary: After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction Anderson 2008McDaniel, Breanna J.
Summary: "A young girl lifts her hands up in a series of everyday moments before finally raising her hands in resistance at a protest march"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MCDMagoon, Kekla
Summary: Caleb Franklin and his big brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer with their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MAGSims, Guy A.
Summary: While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MYEOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: Jack and Annie aren't great baseball players...yet! Then Morgan the librarian gives them magical baseball caps that will make them experts. They just need to wear the caps to a special ballgame in Brooklyn, New York. The magic tree house whisks them back to 1947! When they arrive, Jack and Annie find out that they will be batboys in the game, not ballplayers. What exactly does Morgan want them...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Peg Leg Joe travels from plantation to plantation singing the Drinking Gourd song that will guide slaves to freedom in the North.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Picture Window Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MEIDraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: After rescuing an orphaned deer, Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs club members decide to stage a neighborhood animal show to raise money for the local wildlife rescue center.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DRAPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: After a fellow slave is beaten to death, Sadie and her family flee the plantation for freedom through the Underground Railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Polacco 2009Myers, Walter Dean
Summary: In 1871 Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MYENickerson, Jane.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Violet Dancey is spending the Civil War with a new stepmother and stepsister and her young cousin when she comes upon a wounded Yankee soldier, Thomas, who is being kept alive by mysterious voodoo practitioners.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NICPaulsen, Gary.
Summary: An account of the life of Bass Reeves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PAUWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: After a day of picking cotton in late 1860, Ella May, a young slave, joins her friends Bobby and Sue at their second job of listening outside the windows of their master's house for useful information.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2009