Jacqueline Woodson
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English
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2023 Caudill Award Nominees
BBD Black History Month
Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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BBD Black History Month
Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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Description
ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.
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English
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Back to School Reads (Picturebooks)
Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
BPL Find Your Voice 2023
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Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
BPL Find Your Voice 2023
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Description
Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are lots of reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from. Maybe it's what you eat or something just as random. Whatever it is, it's not easy to...
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English
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2024 Feb. Black History Month
Adult - Black Women Authors in Fiction
Audiobooks "Find Your Voice" 2023
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Adult - Black Women Authors in Fiction
Audiobooks "Find Your Voice" 2023
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Description
When August, an anthropologist who has studied the funeral traditions of different cultures, revisits her old neighborhood after her father's death, her reunion with a brother and a chance encounter with an old friend bring back a flood of childhood memories. Flashbacks depict the isolation she felt moving from rural Tennessee to New York and show how her later years were influenced by the black power movement, nearby street violence, her father's...
4) Harbor me
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English
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BBD Hispanic Culture 2023
Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Middle Grade Books
OBD Juneteenth (June) - Youth
Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Middle Grade Books
OBD Juneteenth (June) - Youth
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"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
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English
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1st Grade Recommended Reads
Best Picture Books & Readers 2022
Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
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Best Picture Books & Readers 2022
Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
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"A group of kids celebrate the joy and freedom of summer on their Brooklyn block"--