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Black Lives (kids)
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FPPL 2024 Women's History Month Children's Booklist
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When she is chosen to compete in the local spelling bee, Stacey learns that, win or lose, her words are powerful, and sometimes perseverance is the most important word of all, in this debut picture book from the iconic voting rights advocate.
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Black History Month (WPLD)
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Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
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Black Authors: Youth Biographies (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month - Youth
Black Icons (kids)
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When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
5) Amara's farm
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There are many plants on Amara's farm. Today is the day she looks for her pumpkins.
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Mia Mayhem volume 1
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Black Lives Fiction
Great Reads: 2nd thru 3rd grade
If You Like...Captain Underpants
Monarch Award Nominees 2022
Great Reads: 2nd thru 3rd grade
If You Like...Captain Underpants
Monarch Award Nominees 2022
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Eight-year-old Mia Macarooney is delighted to learn she is from a family of superheroes, but her acceptance into the Program for In Training Superheroes requires she take a placement exam.
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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
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In a predominately white California beach town, the only two black seventh-graders, Alberta and Edie, find hidden journals that uncover family secrets and speak to race relations in the past.
9) Shark teeth
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Seventh-grader Sharkita "Kita" embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
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Ryan Hart novels volume 3
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Ryan is caught between two friends who both want to be her best friend, her brother ruins her latest baking project, and a classmate keeps teasing her at school, yet Ryan still looks for a way to see the bright side of things and not let anything steal her joy.
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Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.
12) We could fly
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2024 ALA Youth Media Awards (SCPL-YS)
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Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month (WPLD)
2024 Youth Media Award Winners
Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month (WPLD)
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"At a sparrow's urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it's time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise. Drawing on lyrics from the song "We Could Fly" by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, which...
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A powerful fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood adventures explores the idea of collective memory and the lingering effects of slavery.
"History ain't in a book, especially when it comes to folks like us. History is in the lives we lived and the stories we tell each other about those lives."
When Zora Neale Hurston and her best friend, Carrie Brown, discover that the town mute can speak after all, they think
14) Princess hair
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Little girls pretending to be princesses celebrate the different shapes, textures, and styles of their black hair.
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Nic Blake and the Remarkables volume 1
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Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month (WPLD)
Fantasy Reads for Middle Grade (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month (WPLD)
Fantasy Reads for Middle Grade (SCPL-YS)
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"It's not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are cool--like getting a pet hellhound for your twelfth birthday. Others, not so much--like not being trusted to learn magic because you might use it to take revenge on an annoying neighbor. All Nic Blake wants is to be a powerful Manifestor like her dad. But before she has a chance to convince him to teach her the gift, a series of shocking revelations and terrifying events...
17) Partly cloudy
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In desperate need of clear skies as she starts a new school, Madalyn has days filled with clouds that lead to serious storms until she learns the power of community and family after disaster strikes.
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Maya and the rising dark volume 1
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2024 Bluestem List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
For Fans of... Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (SCPL-YS)
For Fans of... Percy Jackson & the Olympians (SCPL-YS)
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For Fans of... Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (SCPL-YS)
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"A twelve-year-old girl discovers her father is the keeper of the gateway between our world and The Dark, and when he goes missing she'll need to unlock her own powers and fight a horde of spooky creatures set on starting a war"--