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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 Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MYEPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: To thank Miss Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, three children sell decorated eggs to buy her a beautiful Easter hat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC POLTaylor, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TAYPaulsen, Gary
Summary: Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Paulsen 1997Jonas, Ann.
Summary: A child's new patchwork quilt recalls old memories and provides new adventure at bedtime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow books 1984
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Summary: Desta's father, who needs to return briefly to his Ethiopian homeland, describes what it was like for him to grow up there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: FIC KURMorrison, Toni.
Summary: The Bluest Eye is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, a black girl in an America whose love for its blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio Publishing 1994
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORWyeth, Sharon Dennis.
Summary: When she goes looking for "something beautiful" in her city neighborhood, a young girl finds beauty in many different forms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Books for Young Readers 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WYERinaldi, Ann.
Summary: A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1996
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RINMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1988
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MYERoby, Kimberla Lawson.
Summary: Tanya Black's perfect life--a fulfilling career, a lovely daughter, a beautiful home, and a charismatic husband, the pastor at a local Baptist church--is threatened when she stumbles upon some disturbing secrets about her husband and learns painful lessons about love, betrayal, and temptation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBStraight, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRBradby, Marie.
Summary: Nine-year-old Booker works with his father and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day when he'll be able to read.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BRADraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 1997
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DRAFlournoy, Valerie
Summary: Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother and mother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 1985
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Summary: The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CURSmalls-Hector, Irene.
Summary: As a mother and son explore their neighborhood, they try various ways of walking--from giant steps and reggae steps to criss cross steps and backwards steps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1994
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1964
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALMorrison, Toni.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MORVan Peebles, Melvin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANPHambly, Barbara.
Summary: Piano player Benjamin January becomes a scapegoat for the prominent men of nineteenth-century New Orleans when he volunteers to arrange a meeting between old friend Mademoiselle Madeleine and her husband's Creole mistress Angelique Crozat, and ends up being one of the last people to see Crozat alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMDavis, Thulani.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Weidenfeld 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVSan Souci, Robert D.
Summary: Unhappy with her life at home, Sukey receives kindness and wealth from Mama Jo the mermaid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Four Winds Press 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.21 SANSánchez, Erika L.
Summary: "Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2018