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23) Tops & bottoms
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 x 28 cm.
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Description
Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.
26) Peekaboo morning
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A toddler plays peek-a-boo throughout the day.
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.
Author
Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 2
Formats
Description
A little boy wishes so much that he could whistle.
29) Within our gates
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 77 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Created as a response to The Birth of a Nation which depicted southern whites in need of the Ku Klux Klan to protect them from blood thirsty blacks, Micheaux shows the reality of Dixie racism in 1920, where a black man could be lynched for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Formats
Description
"A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of thefirst African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain,...
31) Homemade love
Author
Publisher
Disney, Jump at the Sun
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
A girl who is Girlpie to her mama and Honey Bun Chocolate Dewdrop to her daddy savors the warmth and love of her family.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 29 cm.
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Description
Presents the popular poem by one of the central figures in the Harlem Renaissance, highlighting the courage and dignity of the African American Pullman porters in the early twentieth century.
33) Invisible man
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Formats
Description
In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage,...
Author
Publisher
Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 345 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"A gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneers--famous and little-known--in politics, science, literature, music, and more, with biographical reflections, all created and curated by an award-winning graphic designer"--
37) One fall day
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
At bedtime, a sleepy child listens as her mother describes the events of the day, which are illustrated in three-dimensional pictures featuring the child's favorite toys.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 16
Formats
Description
Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
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Description
"As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood...
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