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Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Concoe a 62 pequeños héroes. Son valientes. Son extraordinarios. Cambiaron el mundo. Los héroes son de distintos siglos y lugares, pero tienen algo en común: fueron valientes hombres afroamericanos. Este libro cuenta las historias de artistas, políticos, músicos, deportistas y activistas; personas extraordinarios que abrieron el camino para futuras generaciones, para nuevos pequeños héroes.
Profiles thirty-five prominent men in African American...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in a West Country farming village, The House of Broken Bricks lays bare the complexities of day-to-day life for a mixed-race family. Jess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in a city where she easily blends in into a creaking house on a floodplain where predatory birds hover over fields, eels coil in the river mud, buses run twice a day, neighbors barter honey for cider and no one looks like...
4) Shark teeth
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Sharkita "Kita" embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
Author
Series
Dragons in a bag volume 5
Language
English
Description
Amidst the search for a peaceful resolution, Jax and his friends find themselves facing an imminent war as the witches gear up for battle against the formidable Scourge, threatening to drain all magic from both realms.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Join Ty on his imaginative adventures in Ty's Travels: Lab Magic, a My First I Can Read book by acclaimed author and illustrator team Kelly Starling Lyons and Nina Mata. Science exploration, imagination, and play are highlighted in this fun story, perfect for sharing with children 3 to 6.
Ty and Corey love to visit the museum. When they step through the doors, they become scientists. They study bugs and hunt for fossils. They catch the wind. When...
8) Lift every voice and change: a celebration of Black leaders and the words that inspire generations
Author
Publisher
becker&mayer! kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the power of words and speech from historical and modern figures who have used their voices to make a difference. Includes sound box. Press buttons to hear impactful quotes spoken by inspiring Black Americans in primary source audio files.
Author
Series
Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol volume 20
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Desmond and best friend Andres attend the town's birthday celebration with a petting farm, bumper cars, cotton candy machines, and ghosts, but mostly this Kersville Town Clown Extravaganza is full of creepy clowns of all kinds.
Author
Publisher
Gran Travesía
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
In GARDEN HEIGHTS, TO BE A BOY implies, from a very early age, to prove that you are a man. Loyalty to your gang, to your family, to your ideals, its a weight that threatens to bring you down every day. Maverick Carter understands it in the most heartbreaking way. Angie Thomas explores masculinity and the painful transition to adulthood in the prequel to her bestseller The Hate You Give. If there is one thing that Maverick Carter knows, its that...
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Language
English
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"When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don't use their correct pronouns, and hordes of "well-meaning" but patronizing people offering unsolicited advice as they navigate rocky personal relationships and share their story online. But this experience also deepens their relationship to their ancestors, providing added support from...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A collection of Baldwin's essays on topics ranging from race relations in the United States--including an attack on William Faulkner for this ambivalent views about the segregated South--to the role of the writer in society, with personal accounts of such writers as Richard Wright and Norman Mailer. --From publisher description
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In a beautiful prose telling, the story of a groundbreaking civil rights leader, John Lewis. John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights. He was only a teenager. He soon became a leader of a moment that changed a nation. Walking at the side of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Lewis was led by his belief in peaceful action and voting rights. Today and always his work and legacy will live on"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This first-ever picture book biography of the legendary writer and activist introduces readers to this passionate Black man who discovered his true power in the written word, which opened the world to him as he used his voice fearlessly"--
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Este bestseller del New York Times, con bellas ilustraciones, presenta a lectores de todas las edades, mujeres que cambiaron el mundo. Conoce a 40 pequeñas líderes. Son valientes. Son atrevidas. Cambiaron el mundo. Estas pioneras de la historia afroamericana rompieron barreras y lograron sus metas a pesar de las dificultades. Aquí aprenderás sobre científicas, escritoras, pilotos, artistas y activistas que hicieron cosas extraordinarias. Todas...
Author
Publisher
SJP LIT, a Zando Imprint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1916, during the early days of the Great Migration, Celia Coleman and Lucy Grimes flee the racism and poverty of their homes in the post-Civil War South for the "Promised Land" of Vauxhall, New Jersey. But the North possesses its own challenges and bigotries that will shape the fates of the women and their families over the next seventy years. Told through the voices of nine family members--their perspectives at once harmonious and contradictory--Coleman...
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Language
English
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"When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but...
19) The artivist
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Motivated by the realization of global inequities, a young boy embraces his dual identities as an artist and activist, becoming an "Artivist" to make a difference by using his viral mural as a catalyst for positive change.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Strauss Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring picture book biography about Glenn Burke, the first Major League Baseball player to come out as gay, and the story of how he created the high five, the world's most recognizable handshake. Playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Glenn Burke could do it all--hit, throw, run, field. He was the heart of the clubhouse who energized his teammates with his enthusiasm and love for the game. It was that energy that led Glenn to invent the high...
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