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Summary: Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLICopies Available at Peninsula
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Summary: "An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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Summary: "A girl named Ruth Ellen tells the story of her family's train journey from North Carolina to New York City as part of the Great Migration"--Provided by publisher
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: "The award winners behind Before She Was Harriet explore the story of the saxophone, from its beginnings in 1840s Belgium all the way to New Orleans, where an instrument in a pawn shop caught the eye of musician Sidney Bechet and became the iconic symbol it is today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 788.7 CLICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 788.7 CLISummary: Inspired by She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up, and rose up against the odds. This collection includes the first eight biographies in the series.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021