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Venditti, Robert

Summary: Seventh-grader Tristan Strong tumbles into the MidPass and, with allies John Henry and Brer Rabbit, must entice the god Anansi to come out of hiding and seal the hole Tristan accidentally ripped in the sky.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2022

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Dunn, Stephane

Summary: Years ago Nia lost her father to the violence plaguing her small Indiana city, but when the five-year-old boy she babysits for is killed in a drive-by shooting, she and her friends decide enough is enough and set out to find the murderer--never anticipating how close to home that investigation will lead.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinco Puntos Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DUN

Williams, Alicia

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WIL

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Williams, Alicia

Summary: As a little boy grows into a bigger boy, he first must have the difficult conversation Black families have with their sons, warning them about the challenges they face due to racism.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WIL

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Oliver, Diane

Summary: "A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC OLI

Curry, Stephen

Summary: It's the first day of school for Zoe, a young girl with hearing loss who dreams of playing on her school's soccer team. But, self-conscious of her hearing aids, Zoe is too nervous to try out. With the help of and perspectives from new friends, what begins as a bumpy, anxiety-filled start for Zoe, soon transitions into an eye-opening experience about what it means to be different--and what it...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024

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