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21) I am enough
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Black History Month - Picture Books
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Resolution YOU: Picture Books
Kids Staff Picks
Read in Color Picture Books
Resolution YOU: Picture Books
Description
Shares a story of loving who you are, respecting others and being kind to one another.
22) Keeping it real
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Marigold's family owns Flexx Unlimited, a hip-hop lifestyle company, and she attends the elite school Flowered Arms Academy, but she has never felt entirely comfortable in the mostly White school, and she prefers to hang out with Justice, relatively new to the school, but a star basketball player; so enrolling in Style High with him, a trainee program funded by Mari's family, seems like a good way to spend the summer--until she meets...
23) In the key of us
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
While twelve-year-old Andi has suffered from anxiety attacks ever since her mother died ten months ago, Zora starting hurting herself whenever she feels out of control; they are both at Camp Harmony, an elite summer music camp, trying to deal with their problems and also the stress of competition--but as the summer passes they find themselves increasingly drawn to each other, and maybe not just as friends.
Author
Series
Questioneers volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Blue River Creek tiene un problema: ¡hay un ladrón de mascotas suelto! O al menos, Sofía e Iggy están convencidas de que lo hay, cuando sus mascotas desaparecen. Pero como científica, Ada sabe que es importante no sacar conclusiones precipitadas y en vez, tomar en cuenta los hechos reales. ¿Cómo descubrirán lo que realmente sucedió con las mascotas del pueblo? ¡Usando el método científico, por supuesto! ¡Formando una hipótesis, recopilando...
Author
Series
Azaleah Lane volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Azaleah can't wait for her class field trip to the National Zoo in Washington D.C., especially when her teacher announces the chance to earn extra credit. But when Azaleah gets home, she quickly realizes extra credit isn't as easy as she thought. Azaleah's younger sister Tiana can't find Greenie, her stuffed animal, and she's sure he's been stolen. With Mama at the restaurant and Daddy at work on a big case, it seems Azaleah is the only one available...
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Language
English
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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 new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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#ownvoices - Black Books for Kids
Black History Month - Picture Books
Read in Color Picture Books
Space Storytime
Black History Month - Picture Books
Read in Color Picture Books
Space Storytime
Description
When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
28) Smash it!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Challenging herself to overcome long-held insecurities at the beginning of her junior year, Liv lands an unexpected role in her high school's hip-hopera production of Othello that helps launch her journey of self-empowerment.
29) Sparrow
Author
Language
English
Description
They find her on the edge of the roof of her school. No on believes that she wasn't about to jump. But then again, no one knows Sparrow very well. She keeps good grades. She keeps to herself. Though she wishes she could find a friend, she has no idea how that might happen. So sometimes she goes where the birds gather, and she waits, waits for them to come get her, gather her up, take her with them, take her high above the school, above the city, above...
Author
Series
Zora and me volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.
Author
Series
Zoey and Sassafras volume 7
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the seventh book, Zoey and Sassafras are excited to enjoy their summer with their magical friends. But . . . why is everyone so grumpy? A bunch of bad days one after the other lead Zoey to suspect that something more is afoot. It's up to Zoey and Sassafras to solve the mystery before they end up with one bummer of a summer!
32) Lola gets a cat
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Series
Language
English
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Description
More than anything Lola would like a cat, but first she must learn how to care for it.
33) Amazing Grace
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1953 ten-year-old Octobia May lives in her Aunt's boarding house in the South, surrounded by an African American community which has its own secrets and internal racism, and spends her days wondering if Mr. Davenport in room 204 is really a vampire--or something else entirely.
35) Corduroy
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The classic original Corduroy story, issued in a larger board book format. A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little girl finally buys him he finds what he has always wanted most of all.
Author
Series
Hair magic volume 01
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Imani discovers how to be brave as she looks for the perfect superhero costume for the Fall Festival. This early chapter book features critical thinking questions and a nonfiction feature on real-life superhero Kizzmekia Corbett"--
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