Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Justice and her brothers	Virginia Hamilton	An 11-year-old and her older twin brothers struggle to understand their supersensory powers.	OL112117W
M. C. Higgins, The Great	Virginia Hamilton	Summary, As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills,fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they l…	OL11278412W
Whatever it takes	Paul Tough	An intriguing portrait of African-American activist Geoffrey Canada, creator of the Harlem Children's Zone, describes his radical new approach to eliminating inner-city poverty, one that proposes to …	OL11921156W
Bugs!	Patricia McKissack	Simple text and illustrations of a variety of insects introduce the numbers one through five.	OL14860527W
Mirandy and Brother Wind	Jerry Pinkney,Patricia McKissack	To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner.	OL14860574W
100+ Educational Strategies to Teach Children of Color	Jawanza Kunjufu	Because the attrition rate for new teachers in high-poverty schools averages between 40% and 50% over the first five years of teaching, this investigation offers practical solutions to more than 100 …	OL15176003W
Shadows of Caesar's Creek	Sharon M. Draper	After their counselor told them a story about spirits in the woods near their campsite, Ziggy and his friends get lost in that very place.	OL15221680W
Birmingham 1963	Shelley Tougas	"Explores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the iconic Charles Moore photograph"--Provided by publisher.	OL15539025W
Black students-Middle class teachers	Jawanza Kunjufu	This compelling look at the relationship between the majority of African American students and their teachers provides answers and solutions to the hard-hitting questions facing education in today's …	OL15967537W
Apples on a stick	Jerry Pinkney,Barbara Michels,Bettye White	A collection of playground rhymes, including jump rope rhymes, nonsense verses, taunts, and verses used in circle games and hand claps.	OL16050018W
Color by number	Arthur Carl Munin	Many deny that racism remains pervasive in America today. How can we open eyes to the continuing disadvantages that keep many people of color from fulfilling their potential, and having an equal chan…	OL16509616W
Glo goes shopping	Cheryl Willis Hudson	Glo spends a fun day in search of the perfect birthday gift for her friend Nandi.	OL19853120W
Honky	Dalton Conley	"This memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the de…	OL1998365W
Spin a Soft Black Song	Nikki Giovanni	Thirty-five poems recount the feelings of Black children about their neighborhoods, American society, and themselves.	OL2001567W
Love to read	Barbara T. Bowman	Statistics tell us that children who are not well advanced in the road to literacy by fourth grade are at greatly increased risk of school failure. A growing, robust knowledge base has indentified th…	OL20655825W
Everett Anderson's Goodbye	Lucille Clifton	Everett Anderson has a difficult time coming to terms with his grief after his father dies.	OL2166401W
Tate and his historic dream	Bernard C. Turner	"Tate put off writing his fourth grade history paper until the last minute and would still rather play outside with his friends than work on the paper. While staring blankly at a picture that include…	OL24858167W
Tempest Rising	Diane McKinney-Whetstone	Set in west Philadelphia in the early sixties, Tempest Rising tells the story of three sisters, Bliss, Victoria, and Shern, budding adolescents raised in a world of financial privilege among the uppe…	OL275592W
Peekaboo morning	Rachel Isadora	A toddler plays peek-a-boo throughout the day.	OL497668W
Lola at the Library	Anna McQuinn	Every Tuesday Lola and her mother visit their local library to return and check out books, attend story readings, and share a special treat.	OL5818544W