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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Come Sunday	Nikki Grimes	A little girl describes a typical Sunday from the moment her mother wakes her up through the different elements of the worship service in church.	OL103718W
Danitra Brown Leaves Town	Nikki Grimes	It's summer vacation, but Zuri Jackson isn't happy. What will she do all summer long in the city when her best friend, Danitra. Brown, the most splendiferous girl in town, is off to visit her family …	OL103719W
Jazmin’s Notebook	Nikki Grimes	Her name is Jazmin, and like the music of her name, her life throbs and swings—a few flat notes to be sure, but also bursting with rich passages that rise and soar. Sitting on her stoop she fills her…	OL103723W
Meet Danitra Brown	Nikki Grimes		OL103724W
Her stories	Leo Dillon,Virginia Hamilton,Diane Dillon	A few folktales, animal tales, fairy tales and even some actually true herstories collected and retold by Virginia Hamilton.	OL112094W
The People Could Fly	Virginia Hamilton	"The well-known author retells 24 black American folk tales in sure storytelling voice: animal tales, supernatural tales, fanciful and cautionary tales, and slave tales of freedom. All are beautifull…	OL112129W
Taking liberty	Ann Rinaldi	After serving Martha Washington loyally for twenty years, Oney Judge realizes that she is just a slave and must decide if she will run away to find true freedom.	OL112471W
Numbering All the Bones	Ann Rinaldi	Eulinda is a 13 year old house slave on a plantation just a mile away from Andersonville Prison in southwest Georgia. As the Civil War is ending, she goes to the prison in search of her brother, wh…	OL112474W
The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou	Kristin Hunter Lattany	A fourteen-year-old girl tries to reconcile her dreams and hopes for the future with the harsh and often unpleasant realities of life in the Negro section of town.	OL116224W
In the Land of Words	Eloise Greenfield		OL116292W
Koya Delaney and the Good Girl Blues	Eloise Greenfield	Koya Delaney, an eleven-year-old African-American girl, has trouble expressing anger, until her cousin, a popular male singer, comes to town.	OL116293W
Hot girl	Dream Jordan	Kate, a fourteen-year-old Brooklyn girl and former gang member, risks losing her first good foster family when she adopts the risqué ways of her flirtatious new friend, Naleejah.	OL12005893W
Copper sun	Sharon M. Draper	Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary t…	OL12484W
Double Dutch	Sharon M. Draper	Three eighth-grade friends, preparing for the International Double Dutch Championship jump rope competition in their home town of Cincinnati, Ohio, cope with Randy's missing father, Delia's inabilit…	OL12485W
Mama Day	Gloria Naylor	Mama day is about many things. It's the story of Ophelia and George two black American's and how they fall in love in try to reconcile their differences of upbringing and culture. It's about the dyin…	OL134426W
The book of night women	Marlon James	From a young writer who radiates charisma and talent comes a sweeping, stylish historical novel of Jamaican slavery that can be compared only to Toni Morrison's Beloved.The Book of Night Women is a s…	OL13648915W
In her hands	Alan Schroeder	"A biography of African American sculptor Augusta Savage, who overcame many obstacles as a young woman to become a premier female sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance. Includes an afterword about Savag…	OL13745336W
Bleeding Violet	Dia Reeves	A mentally ill sixteen-year-old girl reunites with her estranged mother in an East Texas town that is haunted with doors to dimensions of the dead and protected by demon hunters called Mortmaine.	OL13783803W
I'm still standing	Shoshana Johnson	Specialist Shoshana Johnson, a member of the 507th Maintenance Company, was captured during an ambush in the early days of the Iraq war and held prisoner until she and her fellow Soldiers were rescue…	OL13783862W
Seaside dream	Janet Costa Bates		OL13804759W