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Summary: "Willis Watson learns how there are real everyday heroes around him, and how he can be whatever he wants to be"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOUCurry, Parker
Summary: "Parker writes letters to her friend Gia while she travels across the U.S. and visits states such as Georgia and New Mexico"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CURCurry, Parker
Summary: While playing dress-up, Parker and her siblings imagine endless possibilities for future careers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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Summary: When Parker visits the museum with her mom and friend she is captivated by the portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama, a picture that inspires self-assurance and hope within herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CURPorter, Connie Rose
Summary: Addy and Harriet feud over everything, including fund-raising plans to help the families of freed slaves, but tragedy finally forces them to stop fighting and work together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PORPorter, Connie Rose
Summary: After their escape from North Carolina to Philadelphia in the summer of 1864, Addy and her mother begin their new life as free people as her mother gets a paying job and Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1993
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PORMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTempest 2001
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MYECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MYECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Myers 2013Rhodes, Jewell Parker.
Summary: In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RHOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Parker-Rhodes 2013Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Summary: "After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RHOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RHOGiddings, Megan
Summary: When Lena Johnson's beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the black millennial drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out of pocket medical expenses. A free place to live. All Lena has to do is participate in a secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020