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The People Could Fly
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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… |
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Taking liberty
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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. |
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The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou
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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. |
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Hot girl
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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. |
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Copper sun
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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… |
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The book of night women
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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… |
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I'm still standing
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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… |
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Color Me Dark
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Patricia McKissack |
An ordinary girl living extraordinary events. Her family, Love, characterizes her comfortable, secure world in Bradford Corners, TN. Until Uncle Pace is murdered by the KKK.
The Author gradually e… |
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Becoming Billie Holiday
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Carole Boston Weatherford |
Jazz vocalist Billie Holiday looks back on her early years in this fictional memoir written in verse. |
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Teenie
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Christopher Grant |
High school freshman Martine, longing to escape Brooklyn and her strict parents, is trying to get into a study-abroad program but when her long-time crush begins to pay attention to her and her best … |
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Ninth Ward
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Jewell Parker Rhodes |
"En Louisiane, tout le monde croit aux esprits. Lanesha, elle, a le don de les voir. "Tu es comme moi, ma chérie, tu as un don de double vue ", lui a expliqué Mama Ya-Ya, la sage-femme qui l'a recuei… |
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Money hungry
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Sharon G. Flake |
All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again. |
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Words with wings
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Nikki Grimes |
Gabby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble. Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps tellin… |
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Foster care odyssey
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Theresa Cameron |
Abandoned by her teenage mother in 1954 to a overwhelmingly white charity organization so begins Theresa's life as a 'ward of the state' of New York. She shares the heartbreaking struggle to survive … |
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Rebellion
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Karen Sandler |
"In this final installment of the Tankborn series, Kayla has been kidnapped by the group that has been bombing GEN warehouses, and she must pretend to sympathize with them in order to escape"-- |
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Tar Beach
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Faith Ringgold |
Cassie Louise Lightfoot, eight years old in 1939, has a dream: to be free to go wherever she wants for the rest of her life. One night, up on "tar beach" --the rooftop of her family's Harlem apartmen… |
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The care & keeping of you
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Valorie Lee Schaefer |
This is a wonderful tool for developing girls going through "that" stage |
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Jamaica's Find
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Juanita Havill,Teresa Mlawer,Anne Sibley O'Brien |
A little girl finds a stuffed dog in the park and decides to take it home. |
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Jamaica tag-along
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Juanita Havill,Anne Sibley O'Brien |
When her older brother refuses to let her tag along with him, Jamaica goes off by herself and allows a younger child to play with her. |
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Diamond (The Divas)
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Victoria Christopher Murray |
Diamond Winters is the one who formed the Divas. With her wealthy, loving parents and an endless supply of charm, she’s always been able to sweet-talk her way into anything. But this time, has Diamon… |
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