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81) Show way
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
84) Mister and me
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
In a small Louisiana mill town in 1940, Jolene does not want her Momma to marry the logger who is courting her, but it seems that even her most defiantly bad behavior cannot make him go away.
85) I am Rosa Parks
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1997
Appears on list
Description
The black woman whose acts of civil disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama, explains what she did and why.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thomas Jefferson's children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, and while they do get special treatment - better work, better shoes, even violin lessons - they are still slaves, and are never to mention who their father is. The lighter-skinned children have been promised a chance to escape into white society, but what does this mean for the children who look more like their mother? As each child grows up,...
87) The Wizard of Oz
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
In this board book version of L. Frank Baum's classic fantasy, a young black girl named Dorothy finds adventure in the Land of Oz.
88) Red shoes
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Malika loves her new red shoes and wears them everywhere, but eventually she outgrows them, and her grandmother takes them to a second-hand shop--where they will become a special present for Amina (who fasted half the month of Ramadan) in Africa, who will enjoy her special red shoes every bit as much as Malika did.
89) Boundless Grace
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Grace is invited for a visit with her father and his new family in Africa.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"The year is 1781 and George Washington is commanding thousands of troops in Yorktown, Virginia, on the brink of the most important battle of the war. You are James Armistead, a brave and literate enslaved person in Virginia. Marquis de Lafayette, one of Washington s key officers, approaches you with the most critical choice of your life: do you join the Revolutionary army as a top secret spy or find freedom on your own terms? As a spy for the revolution,...
91) Freedom Summer
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001
Description
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.
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) Book 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
"Lu knows he can lead Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and the team to victory at the championships, but it might not be as easy as it seems. Suddenly, there are hurdles in Lu's way--literally and not-so-literally--and Lu needs to figure out, fast, what winning the gold really means"--
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A young student receives a family tree assignment in school, but she can only trace back three generations. Grandma gathers the whole family, and the student learns that 400 years ago, in 1619, their ancestors were stolen and brought to America by white slave traders. But before that, they had a home, a land, a language. She learns how the people said to be born on the water survived"--
Author
Series
Ryan Hart novels Book 1
Pub. Date
2020
Description
The Hart family of Portland, Oregon, faces many setbacks after Ryan's father loses his job, but no matter what, Ryan tries to bring sunshine to her loved ones.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
As an elderly woman, Lillian recalls that her great-great-grandparents were sold as slaves in front of a courthouse where only rich white men were allowed to vote, then the long fight that led to her right--and determination--to cast her ballot since the Voting Rights Act gave every American the right to vote.
100) Home of the brave
Author
Formats
Description
Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
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