Headen, Sandra W.
Summary: In 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team "trespasses" on the whites-only baseball field, and the resulting racial outrage can only be resolved on the mound.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HEAErskine, Kathryn.
Summary: When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ERSColbert, Brandy
Summary: In a predominately white California beach town, the only two black seventh-graders, Alberta and Edie, find hidden journals that uncover family secrets and speak to race relations in the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLAbbott, Tony.
Summary: Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JT CD Fiction Abbott 2011Stone, Nic
Summary: Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC STOScattergood, Augusta.
Summary: In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2012
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Scattergood 2012Smith, Steven K.
Summary: "In 1959, the Prince Edward County, Virginia public schools closed. For five years. Back then, it wasn't over a health pandemic, but because county leaders refused to desegregate white and Black schools. So when long-hidden photographs surface from the student protests along Main Street in Farmville, Sam, Derek, and Caitlin are on the case to help identify the brave teenagers who stood for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Virginia Smith 2020Bundy, Tamara
Summary: After moving with her mother and deaf brother to Grandma's small Georgia town in the 1960s, Alice copes with feelings of isolation by befriending the elderly black woman who lives next door
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Bundy 2017Alexie, Sherman
Summary: Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Alexie 2007Pearsall, Shelley
Summary: Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad. Eleven-year-old Samuel was born as Master Hackler's slave, and working the Kentucky farm is the only life he's ever known, until one dark night in 1859, that is. With no warning, cranky old Harrison, a fellow slave, pulls Samuel from his bed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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Summary: "Bianca is Keira's best friend. At school, they are inseparable. But Keira questions their friendship when she learns more about the meaning of the Confederate flag hanging from Bianca's front porch. Will the two friends be able to overlook their distinct understandings of the flag? Or will they reckon with the flag's effect on yesterday and today? In That Flag, Tameka Fryer Brown and Nikkolas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BROTaylor, Mildred D.
Summary: The story of one African American family fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TAYGino, Alex
Summary: When her new baby sister is born deaf, Jilly makes an online connection with a fellow fantasy fan, who happens to be black and deaf, and begins to learn about the many obstacles that exist in the world for people who are different from her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GINWiles, Deborah.
Summary: In 1964, Joe is pleased that a new law will allow his best friend John Henry, who is colored, to share the town pool and other public places with him, but he is dismayed to find that prejudice still exists.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2001
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Summary: Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD LUPhooks, bell
Summary: The skin I'm in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story. The skin I'm in is just a covering. If you want to know who I am, you have got to come inside and open your heart way wide. Celebrating all that makes us unique and different, [this book] offers new ways to talk about race and identity. Race matters, but only so much-- what's most important is who we are on the inside. Looking beyond...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Jump at the Sun 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOOMcBride, Amber
Summary: In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue -- the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often - he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too, she wants to know why she feels so Blue and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCBLupica, Mike
Summary: Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Lupica 2015Armand, Glenda
Summary: During the Great Migration in 1930's Louisiana, eight-year-old Jenny tries to understand why a man named Jim Crow is making trouble for her family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARMDraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DRAThomas, Angie
Summary: Starr a 16 ans, elle est noire et vit dans un quartier difficile, rythmé par les guerres de gangs, la drogue et les descentes de police. Tous les jours, elle rejoint son lycée blanc situé dans une banlieue chic; tous les jours, elle fait le grand écart entre ses deux vies, ses deux mondes. Mais tout vole en éclats le soir où son ami d'enfance Khalil est tué. Sous ses yeux, de trois balles dans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nathan 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD FRENCH THOThomas, Angie
Summary: After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION THOCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOBlackman, Malorie
Summary: Sephy is a Cross- dark-skinned and beautiful, she lives a life of privilege and power. But she burns with injustice at the world she sees around her. Callum is a nought- pale-skinned and poor, he's considered to be less than nothing. But he dreams of a better life.Then - in spite of a world that is fiercely against them - these star-crossed lovers choose each other. But this is love story that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLAhooks, bell
Summary: The skin I'm in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story. The skin I'm in is just a covering. If you want to know who I am, you have got to come inside and open your heart way wide. Celebrating all that makes us unique and different, [this book] offers new ways to talk about race and identity. Race matters, but only so much-- what's most important is who we are on the inside. Looking beyond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: LB Kids, imprint of Little, Brown and Company 2022