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1) Seeing Red
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
Language
English
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A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 14
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Mallory is excited when it looks like the eighth-grade girls will invite her to join their Baby-sitters Club and she might become best friends with the new African American girl in the neighborhood, but the club members have to learn some lessons in fairness first.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: "Daddy?" "Yes, my sweet boy." "Why are those people shouting?" "Our people are shouting because we need to be heard. We need to be heard." Why? is a question asked by children daily, and in this stirking and timely story, it begins a straightforwardand challenging conversation between children of color and the adults in their lives.
7) Feathers
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
8) Beauty woke
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Beauty, who is of Taino Indian, African, and Boricua heritage, was taught to be strong and proud, but hatred toward people who look like her bruises her heart until her community opens her eyes to the truth.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body positivity should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud board book series offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way. Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood and activism against injustice, this topic-driven board book offers clear, concrete language and beautiful imagery that young children...
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Language
English
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When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past... and the present. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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All Ages Native American Heritage
If You Like the Hate U Give, Read These!
Native American Heritage - Adult/YA
Thanksgiving- Adult/YA
If You Like the Hate U Give, Read These!
Native American Heritage - Adult/YA
Thanksgiving- Adult/YA
Description
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
12) Gone wolf
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old Black girl deals with fear, grief, pain, and suffering caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and America's history of enslavement and racist violence.
14) The talk
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
As a little boy grows into a bigger boy, he first must have the difficult conversation Black families have with their sons, warning them about the challenges they face due to racism.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
En cierta pradera vivían un grupo de conejos blancos y un grupo de conejos negros que no se mesclan los unos con los otros. Pero un día una conejita llamada Marcela duda de su estilo de vida.
In a certain meadow lived a group of white rabbits and a group of black rabbits that did not mix with each other until one day a bunny named Marcela questions their way of life.
Author
Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive; but when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
"Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jeffernson High School ... Linda Hairston is the daughter of the town's most vocal opponents of school integration ... Forced to work together on a school project, Sarah and Linda must confront harsh truths about race, power and how they really feel about one another"--Jacket.
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