African Americans
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Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
$11.99 Add to cart2001 Coretta Scott King Honor Book
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America. Harriet Tubman helped more than three hundred slaves escape the South on- Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: January 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0547906048
- Language: English
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Timid: A Graphic Novel
$12.99 Add to cartA semiautobiographical middle-grade graphic novel about frenemies, fitting in, and finding your voice.
Cecil Hall and his family have just moved from Florida to Massachusetts, near Boston. Cecil is anx… [more below]
- Author: Todd, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1338305700
- Language: English
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Homeboyz
$8.99 Add to cartAlan Lawrence Sitomer writes a compelling story of piecing together a life after a devastating loss–when the threat of violence lurks at every step.
When Teddy Anderson’s little sister Tina is gunned… [more below]- Author: Sitomer, Alan Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 142310031X
- Language: English
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Arlo and the Great Big Cover-Up
$14.99 Read moreBeautiful Illustrations Simple Story A Lesson on Repentance and Grace
Arlo knows better than to get out of bed during rest time. And he definitely isn’t allowed to draw on the wall. But Arlo does it
- Series: Tgc Kids
- Author: Childs Howard, Betsy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1433568527
- Language: English
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King of Ragtime: The Story of Scott Joplin
$17.99 Add to cartA stunning, rhythmic picture book biography of African American composer Scott Joplin, whose ragtime music paved the way for jazz.
There was something special about Scott Joplin…
This quiet kid coul- Author: Costanza, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1534410368
- Language: English
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Princess Hair
$17.99 Add to cartPrincesses with curls wear pearls. Princesses with head wraps take long naps. And princesses with teeny-weeny Afros wear teeny-weeny bows.
Celebrate different hair shapes, textures, and styles in thi- Author: Miller, Sharee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0316562610
- Language: English
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Skateboard Party: The Carver Chronicles, Book Two
$6.99 Read moreRichard can’t wait to show off his flat-ground Ollies at a friend’s birthday party at the skate park, but a note home from his teacher threatens to ruin his plans. He really meant to finish his assign
- Series: Carver Chronicles #2
- Author: English, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0544582268
- Language: English
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Stella by Starlight
$19.99 Read moreSharon M. Draper presents “storytelling at its finest” (School Library Journal, starred review) in this New York Times bestselling Depression-era novel about a young girl who must learn to be brave in… [more below]
- Author: Draper, Sharon M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1442494972
- Language: English
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Miami Jackson Makes the Play
$6.99 Add to cartAT LAST IT’S summer. Miami is more than ready for two weeks of baseball camp. No homework. No annoying sister. Best of all, no Destinee Tate. But Miami can’t escape Destinee. Turns out his best friend… [more below]
- Series: Stepping Stone Book(tm)
- Author: McKissack, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0307265056
- Language: English
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Octopus Stew
$17.99 Add to cartWhat do you do when an octopus captures Grandma? Put on your superhero cape and rescue her! This clever picture book tells two stories in one, from award-winning Afro-Latino artist Eric Velasquez.
The- Author: Velasquez, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 082343754X
- Language: English
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Baking Buddies
$22.65 Add to cartJ.C. is craving cupcakes and so is Pop-Pop! But when baby Maya won’t go down for her nap, J.C. and Pop-Pop have to get creative. Can they handle baking and babysitting at the same time?
- Series: Jalen’s Big City Life
- Author: Salabie, Shiane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1484681002
- Language: English
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Circus
$14.99 Add to cartDante Micheaux’s superb poetic aptitude is wedded to an eually superb poetic amplitude. Intimate soliloquy, lyric address, and linguistic allegory merge with resonating voices and personae. This poem
- Author: Micheaux, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: August 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1945023201
- Language: English
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Other Side of the Tracks
$13.99 Add to cartThis “stirring…emotionally raw” (Publishers Weekly) young adult debut novel about three teens entangled by secret love, open hatred, and the invisible societal constraints wrapped around people both… [more below]
- Author: Alyse, Charity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1534497722
- Language: English
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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography 1868-1963
$45.00 Add to cartThe two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of W. E. B. Du Bois from renowned scholar David Levering Lewis, now in one condensed and updated volume
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois–the premier arch- Author: Lewis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0805088059
- Language: English
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Drama High: Keep It Movin’
$15.00 Add to cartA YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
South Bay High’s Jayd Jackson finally has her own ride, but that sure doesn’t mean her troubles are over. . . These days, Jayd just can’t seem to g- Series: Drama High #8
- Author: Divine, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0758231075
- Language: English
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Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts
$29.95 Add to cartFinalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry
Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black Ame- Author: Finney, Nikky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0810142015
- Language: English
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Leaving Gee’s Bend
$12.95 Add to cartSIBA Book Award Finalist Alabama Library Association Children’s Book of the Year
Ludelphia Bennett may be blind in one eye, but that doesn’t mean she can’t put in a good stitch. In fact, Ludelphia sew- Author: Latham, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1588383326
- Language: English
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God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
$11.00 Read moreA Harlem Renaissance classic: seven inspirational poems inspired by the powerful rhetorical traditions of African-American sermons and spirituals.
James Weldon Johnson, the co-author of “Lift Every Vo- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Johnson, James Weldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593468813
- Language: English
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Get Ready for War
$9.95 Add to cartThey have everything their parents’ mega-celebrity can give–but when the Pampered Princesses of Hollywood High take aim at each other, the last girl standing will have everything to lose.
London Phi
- Series: Hollywood High #02
- Author: Simone, Ni-Ni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 075827355X
- Language: English
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Drama High: Culture Clash
$16.00 Add to cartEver since she discovered a love for drag racing, it’s full speed ahead for Jayd Jackson. . .
Fed up with the way her school’s handling Cultural Awareness Day, Jayd and her crew decide to form the firs
- Series: Drama High #10
- Author: Divine, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0758231113
- Language: English
