Christie, R. Gregory
Summary: In this update of the classic fable, City Mouse and his cousin, Country Mouse, exchange visits and, although they find many things to like in each other's homes, they quickly learn that each prefers his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CHRBolden, Tonya
Summary: "Before there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The godmother of rock & roll started as a little girl from Arkansas with music in her air, in her hair, in her bones, wiggling her toes. With a big guitar in hand and a big voice in her soul, she grew into a rock & roll trailblazer in a time when women were rarely seen rocking out."--Front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THARockwell, Anne F.
Summary: A biographical look at the former slave who gained renown as an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TRUCorey, Shana
Summary: "Acclaimed author Shana Corey and New York Times Best Illustrated artist R. Gregory Christie deliver a fresh look at Kennedy, underscoring the greatness and fallibility of our leaders and how each one of us, no matter who we are, have the power to make adifference. With quotes from JFK's speeches, detailed back matter, and a thought- provoking author's note, this biography offers a sensitive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KENDuncan, Alice Faye
Summary: Most people know Coretta Scott King as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader. Coretta's march on freedom road made her a great leader, too. Alice Faye Duncan blends poetry and prose to follow Coretta from a challenging childhood in segregated Alabama, to music training in Boston, to her brave years as a wife, mother, and activist fighting for equal rights and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB KING DUNDuncan, Alice Faye
Summary: Recounts the 1968 sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his final speech to strikers the night before his assassination, and details the perseverance of strikers before and after his death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 331.892 DUNPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: "A picture book about the life of civil rights activist Ella Baker"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BAKShepard, Ray Anthony
Summary: Meticulously researched and drawn from numerous primary sources, this biography-in-verse tells the story of racism in the U.S. through six important Black Americans from different eras who struggled for justice, chronicling how much - and how little - racism has changed since our country's founding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, and imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 SHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 305.8009 SHEWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A poetic tribute to a lesser-known part of African-American history describes how after working relentlessly for more than six days, slaves in nineteenth-century New Orleans were permitted to congregate in Congo Square.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976 WEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WEAParsons, Karyn
Summary: "The story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to earn her pilot's license"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 COLRockliff, Mara
Summary: "A picture book biography about Georgia Gilmore, the woman whose cooking helped feed and fund the Montgomery bus boycott of 1956"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022
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Summary: Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MICBolden, Tonya.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALIFrame, Jeron Ashford.
Summary: A young boy ponders a variety of emotions and how different members of his family experience them, from his own blues to his father's grays and his grandmother's yellows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tricycle Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FrameSeeger, Pete
Summary: Lee, a jazz pianist, has to leave his band when he begins losing his hearing, but he meets a deaf saxophone player in a sign language class and together they form a snazzy new band.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2006