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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 24 cm
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Growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem, eight-year-old Malaya hates when her mother drags her to Weight Watchers meetings; she'd rather paint alone in her bedroom or enjoy forbidden street foods with her father. For Malaya, the pressures of her predominantly white Upper East Side prep school are relentless, as are the expectations passed down from her painfully proper mother and sharp-tongued grandmother. As she comes of age in the 1990s, she finds...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Description
Addresses--honestly, yet hopefully--the experiences Black children face growing up with systemic racism, as well as providing hope for the future and delivering a message of empowerment to a new generation of dreamers.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Kids will love seeing strong, happy reflections of themselves in this vibrant, rhyming, level 1 reader about the joy of being a boy—listening to music, swimming, exploring nature, being on a sports team, baking, doing math, and more. Full of easy-to-read fun on each page, this easy reader promotes boys' self-esteem, smarts, and strength.
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Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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The New York Times best-selling and award-winning duo present this celebration of Black and Brown babies and the happiness, gentle moments and endless love shared between children and their caregivers.
11) Sounder
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has been imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of various people along the road.
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Series
J.D. the kid barber volume 3
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm.
Description
The youngest barber to be invited to the Beauty Brothers Hair Expo in Atlanta, 8-year-old J.D. discovers that the world of hair and beauty is so much bigger than he imagined-and he is ready to step up his game!
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Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
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When Nigel looks up at the moon, his future is bright. He imagines himself as...an astronaut, a dancer, a superhero, too! Among the stars, he twirls. With pride, his chest swells. And his eyes, they glow. Nigel is the most brilliant body in the sky. But it's Career Week at school, and Nigel can't find the courage to share his dreams. It's easy to whisper them to the moon, but not to his classmates--especially when he already feels out of place.
Author
Publisher
Mango Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It's hard to balance protecting your child's innocence with preparing them for the realities of Black life. When--and how--do you approach racism with your children? How do you protect their physical and mental health while also preparing them for a country full of systemic racism? On the heels of 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?' and 'Multiplication Is for White People' comes a parenting book specifically for parents...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
55 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges--who, at the age of six, was the first African American to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans--shares her story through text and historical photographs, offering a powerful call to action.
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Pub. Date
2011
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Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Rufus Jackson Jones is from Birmingham, the place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the most segregated place in the country. A place that in 1963 is full of civil rights activists including Dr. King. The adults are trying to get more attention to their cause--to show that separate is not equal. Rufus's dad works at the local steel factory, and his mom is a cook at the mill. If they participate in marches, their bosses will fire them. So that's where...
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