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Across the Alley
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Willie and Abe, two young boys with generations of history behind them, are secret best friends. Sam is African American and his daddy wants played baseball in the Negro...
Picture Book
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All the Colors of the Earth
Fiction/Non-Fiction
This is the first book I look for when someone asks me to find them a book for children to celebrate our different races. There is joy and pride...
Historical fiction
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Arabus Family Saga: Jump Ship to Freedom
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Fourteen-year-old Daniel and his mother are slaves owned by an evil man named Captain Ives. Daniel learns that his father had earned enough revolutionary notes to buy their freedom...
Poetry
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Birmingham, 1963
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It's 1963 and the Civil Rights movement has begun. A hopeful voice waits excitedly on her tenth birthday for her special moment. She's going to sing a...
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Black Magic
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What does it mean to be black? "Black is big like a star-filled sky." It can be delicious, silly, silky, musical, surprising, and majestic. It isn't the same thing...
Historical fiction
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557 1
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Blue
Fiction/Non-Fiction
If you ask folks from Hickory, North Carolina, what they remember about the year 1944, they might tell you about their fathers’ fighting Hitler, about the hardships of war,...
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Non-Fiction
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Coretta Scott
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Coretta Scott King's life was a journey that began in the times when she walked five miles to school with her siblings while a "white school bus left a...
Historical fiction
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Crooked River
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It's 1812 out in the pioneer territory of Ohio, and you can almost smell the Native American who is chained upstairs in the loft, accused of murder. The two...
Action / Adventure
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Crossing the Wire
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Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores is faced with a tough reality when he realizes he is going to have to be the man of the family and try to cross from...
Historical fiction
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Darby
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It's 1926 in South Carolina, and nine-year old Darby Carmichael lives happily out in the country, spending time with her friend Evette. They are careful how they spend time...
Historical fiction
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Day of Tears
Fiction/Non-Fiction
In 1859 in Savannah, Georgia, the largest slave auction in American history took place. This is the story of fictionalized characters who could have been at the auction...
Science Fiction
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Disunited States of America
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War between Ohio and Virginia? In Beckie’s world, it could happen any day. Justin’s seen enough alternate timelines to know that, as a Time Trader traveling through the many...
Historical fiction
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Eyes of the Emperor
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Eddie Okubo enlists in the US Army at the age of 17, just days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His Japanese-American heritage will lead him into a...
Realistic Fiction
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Have Fun Anna Hibiscus!
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Reluctant Reader
In this early chapter book, Anna Hibiscus is a young girl who lives in “Amazing Africa”, with her family and her extended family. Her mom is from Canada and...
Action / Adventure
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Heart of a Samurai
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Fiction/Non-Fiction
Reluctant Reader
Big-nosed barbarians! A ship larger than 7 fishing boats! Is it rescue…or capture? Young Manjiro was not sure what to tell the 4 other Japanese fishermen who had drifted...
Picture Book
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Henry Aaron's Dream
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The sign on the backstop fence reads Whites Only. These are the 1940's in the United States when black and white ballplayers don't take the same field. ...
Realistic Fiction
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If You Come Softly
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She’s Jewish, and he’s African –American, and one day they absolutely collide in the hallway of their school....
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Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive
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Beginning in the cotton fields and a sickly childhood and moving to the racetracks of Ohio State University where he was not allowed to live in the dormitories, Jesse...
Non-Fiction
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Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby
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Jimmy Winkfield was born in 1882, the youngest of seventeen children. He was African American and he was small for his age. But, put him on a...
Non-Fiction
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Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours
Fiction/Non-Fiction
“How many years can some people exist Before they’re allowed to be free” -- Bob Dylan “This book is about the story of garbage in one city – Memphis,...
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