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African Americans Fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction Detective and mystery stories Families Juvenile fiction Familles Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Family life Fiction Friendship Fiction Noirs américains Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Race relations Fiction Schools Juvenile fictionDameron, DéLana R. A.
Summary: ""Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write 'em in your books and show everyone who we are." So begins DéLana R.A. Dameron's stunning novel-in-stories, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Mosby spends much of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMBrown, India Hill
Summary: When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help Avery get the recognition she craves, and it will also be a good idea for the school project about the history of her small North Carolina town, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction BrownWatson, Renée
Summary: "Middle school is just around the corner for Ryan Hart, which means it's time to start thinking about the future--and not just how to prank her brother, Ray! During Black History Month, Ryan learns more about her ancestors and local Black pioneers, and their hopes for the future, for her generation. She wonders who she wants to be and what kind of person her family hopes she becomes. Drawing on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WATJohnson, Varian
Summary: "When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, after all, who left Lambert in a cloud of shame. But the letter describes a young African American woman named Siobhan Washington. An injustice that happened decades ago. A mystery enfolding the letter writer. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle. Grandma tried and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC JOHJohnson, Varian
Summary: Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JOHBurch, Ciera
Summary: Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother lives--someone she knows only two things about: her name and the fact that she left Jericka's mother and uncle when they were children. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024
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Summary: For readers of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and The Turner House , an intimately told story about a woman living by her own rules and the rural community that struggles to understand her. Azalea "Knot" Centre is determined to live life as she pleases. Let the people of West Mills say what they will; the neighbors' gossip won't keep Knot from what she loves best: cheap moonshine,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Winslow 2019Woods, Brenda (Brenda A.)
Summary: Gabriel, twelve, gains new perspective when he becomes friends with Meriwether, a Black World War II hero who has recently returned to the unwelcoming Jim Crow South.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOOParsons, Karyn
Summary: Eleven-year-old Ella seeks information about her father while enjoying a visit with her mother, a jazz singer, in Boston in 1944, then returns to the harsh realities of segregated, small-town South Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Parsons 2019Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Draper 2015Gohlke, Cathy
Summary: "When Lilliana Swope's beloved mother dies, Lilliana gathers her last ounce of courage and flees her abusive husband for the home of her only living relative in the foothills of No Creek, North Carolina. Though Hyacinth Belvidere hasn't seen Lilliana since she was five, she offers her cherished great-niece a safe harbor. Their joyful reunion inspires plans to revive Aunt Hyacinth's estate and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOHDeonn, Tracy
Summary: Llena de misterio y un sistema mágico intrigantemente rico, la fantasía contemporánea YA de Tracy Deonn reinventa la leyenda del Rey Arturo y "entrelaza las tradiciones populares sureñas y Black Girl Magic en una historia moderna y abrasadora de dolor, poder y autodescubrimiento" (Dhonielle Clayton, Autora superventas del New York Times de The Belles). Después de que su madre muere en un...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wonderbooks 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH DEOWinslow, De'Shawn Charles
Summary: When three siblings are found shot to death in the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, and the white authorities show no interest in solving the case, Josephine Wright sets out to prove the innocence of her childhood sweetheart,Olympus "Lymp" Seymore, the murder victims' half-brother and the leading suspect in the case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINCopies Available at Fife Lake
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Summary: In 1963 in South Carolina, eleven-year-old twins Jez and Jay Turner begin lessons in rootwork, and their uncle's training offers them healing, protection, and a connection to their heritage even as they face threats from the local police deputy, school bullies, and others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Summary: A little boy is excited to work alongside his Papa as they collect eggs, plums, peppers and pumpkins to sell at their stand in the farmer's market, but when Papa cannot make it to the stand, his community gathers around him, with dishes made of his own produce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EADWright, Steven
Summary: "Dre Ross has one more shot. Despite being a successful political consultant, his aggressive tactics have put him on thin ice with his boss, Mrs. Fitz, who plucked him from juvenile incarceration and mentored his career. She exiles him to the backwoods of South Carolina with $250,000 of dark money to introduce a ballot initiative on behalf of a mining company. The goal: to manipulate the locals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRIMarks, Janae
Summary: "Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: For Black History Month, Ana & Andrew join a research group at the Community Center. They learn many interesting things about Martin Luther King Jr.! Later, with the help of some other children, they make one of Martin's famous dreams come true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLAShabazz, Ilyasah
Summary: Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SHAWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEADeonn, Tracy
Summary: "To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DEOCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DEOIloh, Candice
Summary: Raised in a free-spirited home by two loving parents who encourage Cerulean to be their full self, they've got big dreams of moving cross-country to live off the grid with their friends after graduation. When a fight with a teacher spirals out of control, Cerulean impulsively drops out to avoid the punishment they fear is coming. Why wait for graduation to leave an oppressive capitalist system...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ILOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ILOWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: The 1960 civil rights sit-ins at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, are seen through the eyes of a young Southern black girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WEAAhmed, Roda
Summary: Born to be a star, Etta prepares for her big performance in her school's talent show, but when she gets pre-show jitters, her loving family helps her through it so she can shine in the spotlight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023