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African Americans Fiction African Americans History Juvenile fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction African Americans Social life and customs Juvenile fiction Fathers and sons Fiction Hockey Miscellanea Juneteenth Juvenile fiction Lullabies Slaves Emancipation Texas Galveston Juvenile fiction Tulsa (Okla.) Race relations History 20th centuryCooper, Floyd
Summary: Little Mazie wants the freedom to stay up late, but her father explains what freedom really means in the story of Juneteenth, and how her ancestors celebrated their true freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "Jackson's mom is getting married, and Jackson is nervous about his role and his new family"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Cooper 2017Cooper, Floyd
Summary: After endless practice hours on the court, a young Michael Jordan reached the day when his moves were as good as his older brother Larry, and so challenged him to a game for all to see--becoming the victor to the surprise of his family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 JordanCooper, Floyd.
Summary: When Max leaves his grandfather's house, the moon follows him all the way home, just as Grandpa promised it would.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Cooper 2013Cooper, Floyd
Summary: Little Mazie wants the freedom to stay up late, but her father explains what freedom really means in the story of Juneteenth, and how her ancestors celebrated their true freedom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Young Readers, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COOBrown, Margaret Wise
Summary: Twelve seasonal lullabies are illustrated by contemporary artists, including Floyd Cooper, Leo Espinosa, and Dadu Shin.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J BLUE GOORockwell, Anne F
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 Lafayette 2016Thomas, Joyce Carol.
Summary: Poems for each month of the year celebrate the themes of family love, individuality, and Afro-American identity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE FIC THOThomas, Joyce Carol.
Summary: Describes the joys and hardships experienced by an African-American pioneer woman who staked a claim for free land in the Oklahoma territory.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOVander Zee, Ruth.
Summary: Amidst the economic depression and the racial tension of the 1930s, a boy discovers a horrible secret of his father's involvement in the Ku Klux Klan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: FIC VandeWilliams, Karen Lynn.
Summary: When his father tells him not to leave the lion he is drawing on the beach, a little boy starts making a very, very long tail--and a trail to follow back.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILDempsey, Kristy.
Summary: A young girl growing up in Harlem in the 1950s, whose mother cleans and stitches costumes for a ballet company, dreams of becoming a prima ballerina one day, and is thrilled to see a performance of Janet Collins, the first "colored" prima ballerina.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Dempsey 2014Henderson, Leah
Summary: In Charleston, South Carolina, in 1865, ten-year-old Eli and other newly freed slaves gather to honor the memory of fallen Union soldiers, an event considered to be one of the first celebrations of what is now called Memorial Day. Includes author's note.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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Summary: Constructed brick by brick, the White House was created by human hands, many of them slaves', whose hard labor helped create the symbol of this country, in the story of how the official residence and principal workplace of the United States presidents was built.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2013
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Summary: "The true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the United States"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BANLangley, Sharon
Summary: "When Sharon Langley was born, amusement parks were segregated, and African American families were not allowed in. This picture book tells how a community came together--both black and white--to make a change. In the summer of 1963, because of demonstrations and public protests the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time. Sharon and her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 LANMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of Frederick Douglass, a self-educated slave in the South who grew up to become a leader in the abolitionist movement, a celebrated writer, an esteemed speaker, and a social reformer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.6 WEAConner, Floyd
Summary: Annotation The history of hockey is filled with the bizarre, the unexpected, and the hard to believe. Hockey's Most Wantedchronicles 700 of the most outrageous players, coaches, and owners in hockey history. In humorous detail, Floyd Conner describes hockeys top-ten strange plays, inept players, bizarre nicknames, craziest fans, colorful characters, unlikely heroes, odious owners, worst...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Brassey's, Inc. 2002