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3) Ghost boys
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
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Description
Despite serious obstacles and setbacks Sarah Jean's Uncle Jed, the only black barber in the county, pursues his dream of saving enough money to open his own barbershop.
7) Light it up
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators.
14) We march
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Illustrations and brief text portray the events of the 1963 march in Washington, D.C., where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a historic speech.
15) Amor de pelo
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self.
Author
Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 4
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
When her grandmother takes in a stranded family at Christmas, Grace is reluctant to share her favorite holiday with strangers, even though the visiting family includes a "real live ballerina."
17) Little Shaq
Author
Series
Little Shaq volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
73 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Seven-year-old Shaquille O'Neal, a talented basketball and video game player, learns to share the spotlight with his cousin Barry when the youngsters work together to earn money by watering plants.
19) Cookie monsters
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
302 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
As twelve-year-old Brooklyn goes head-to-head against her rival to win her school's cookie-selling competition, her friends help her cope with the death of her mother and help her try to clinch the Cookie Queen title.
20) Calico Girl
Author
Formats
Description
Callie struggles to understand slavery when her stepbrother is sold away at the start of the Civil War, but is determined her whole family will be free one day. Includes historical notes.
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