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Author
Publisher
Familius LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Zahra sees the world in vivid colors. When kids at school tell her she's different because of the color of her skin, she doesn't know how to feel, but her mother tells her to feel proud.
62) Big
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is.
63) Eve's bayou
Series
Language
English
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Description
"The summer I killed my father, I was ten years old" "So begins Kasi Lemmons's spellbinding feature debut, an evocative journey into the maze of memory steeped in a fragrant southern-gothic atmosphere. In 1960s Louisiana, a young girl sees her well-to-do family unravel in the wake of the infidelities of her charming father setting in motion a series of deceptions and betrayals that will upend her world and challenge her understanding of reality. Rooted...
64) We could fly
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Drawing on the song lyrics from “We Could Fly” by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, this lyrical picture book celebrates love, resilience and the spiritual power of tradition through a moving conversation between a mother and daughter" --
67) Staying pure
Author
Series
Payton Skky series volume 1
Publisher
Moody Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Self-educated and brown-skinned, Cassie works full time in her grandmother's laundry in rural Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith falls for colored music and dreams of life as a big city radio star. These teenaged girls are half-sisters. And when they catch wind of their wayward father's inheritance coming down in Virginia, they hitch their hopes to a road trip together to claim what's rightly theirs.
69) Hurricane child
Author
Language
English
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Description
Born during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Virgin Islander Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
72) Sparrow
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Sparrow Cooke struggles with emotional issues and suicidal feelings following the death of her school librarian, who was the only person who seemed to understand her.
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 200 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Glory Edim launches her Well-Read Black Girl Library with this vital anthology celebrating stories from such luminaries as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Since founding the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club in 2015, Glory Edim's profile has skyrocketed. From her roots in a Brooklyn-based community to a massive online following, she has been heralded as the literary tastemaker for a new generation. With On Girlhood, Edim has beautifully curated a canonical...
75) Trail of echoes
Author
Series
Detective Elouise Norton novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Los Angeles homicide detective Elouise ?Lou? Norton and her partner, Colin Taggert, arrive at the scene of a tragic house fire that claimed the lives a woman and her two children; and the husband, still alive and in the hospital, is the main suspect.
Author
Series
Azaleah Lane volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Azaleah loved her class field trip to the National Zoo in Washington D.C, and is looking forward to earning extra credit by building a diorama of a tiger in his natural habitat for extra credit--but before she can even begin her task she has to solve the mystery of her younger sister's favorite missing stuffed animal because her parents and older sister are too busy and Tiana is ready to throw a tantrum.
77) Step
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The senior year of a girls' high school step dance team against the background of inner city Baltimore. Empowered by their teachers, coaches, families, and each other, they strive to win a championship and go to college.
79) A history of me
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Language
English
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"A mother's account of her experience as the only Black child in school serves as an empowering message to her daughter"--
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
In 1864 twelve-year-old former slave Charlotte is lucky enough to live on a plantation near Richmond, Virginia, owned by a Miss Van Lew, who hates slavery, and when Charlotte overhears a conversation she realizes that her mistress is gathering information and passing it on to the Union army; Charlotte is eager to help, (especially since her own cousin, Mary, is involved) but her enthusiasm may endanger them all--or help free 400 Union soldiers who...
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