Children's Books/Ages 9-12 People & Places
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What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?
$7.99 Add to cartLearn how envy and racism led to the tragic destruction of the thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in this thought-provoking addition to the New York Times bestselling What Was? series!
Befor- Series: What Was?
- Author: Gayle, Caleb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0593521706
- Language: English
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Young, Gifted and Black Too: Meet 52 More Black Icons from Past and Present
$24.99 Read moreIn this timely follow-up to the best-selling, genre-defining Young, Gifted and Black, you can meet 52 more Black icons from around the world – this time spanning even more countries and including insp… [more below]
- Series: See Yourself in Their Stories
- Author: Wilson, Jamia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0711277028
- Language: English
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Ticktock Banneker’s Clock
$18.99 Add to cartThroughout his life, Benjamin Banneker was known and admired for his work in science, mathematics, and astronomy, just to name a few pursuits. But even when he was born in Maryland in 1731, he was alr… [more below]
- Author: Keller, Shana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 158536956X
- Language: English
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My Antarctica: True Adventures in the Land of Mummified Seals, Space Robots, and So Much More
$18.99 Add to cartFollow Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author G. Neri to the end of the world in a captivating travel memoir that explores Antarctica through the curiosity and wonder of his inner child–the kid who … [more below]
- Author: Neri, G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 5, 2024
- ISBN10: 1536223328
- Language: English
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Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
$9.99 Add to cartIn luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history.
Where is our historian to give us our side? A- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1536208973
- Language: English
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She Persisted: Wilma Mankiller
$16.99 Read moreInspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds–including Wilma Mankill… [more below]
- Series: She Persisted
- Author: Sorell, Traci
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0593403037
- Language: English
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What Was the Harlem Renaissance?
$7.99 Add to cartIn this book from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan became home to the leading Black writers, artists, and musicians of the 1920s a… [more below]
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Smith, Sherri L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0593225902
- Language: English
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Fatty Legs (10th Anniversary Edition)
$12.95 Add to cartThe beloved story of an Inuvialuit girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, updated for a new generation of readers.
Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton’s powerful story of residential schoo
- Author: Pokiak-Fenton, Margaret-Olemaun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 10, 2020
- ISBN10: 1773213504
- Language: English
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What Is the Civil Rights Movement?
$5.99 Add to cartRelive the moments when African Americans fought for equal rights, and made history.
Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation- Series: What Was?
- Author: Smith, Sherri L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1524792306
- Language: English
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Earth’s Incredible Places: Yellowstone
$21.99 Add to cartA captivating illustrated introduction to Yellowstone National Park, the world’s oldest national park and one of the most intact ecosystems on the planet. For fans of Kate Siber’s National Parks of th… [more below]
- Series: Earth’s Incredible Places
- Author: Ard, Cath
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: 4-Apr-23
- ISBN10: 1838748563
- Language: English
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The Sculptors of Light: Poems about Cuban Women Artists
$19.95 Read moreFrom folk art to photography, architecture to painting, sculpture to music, female Cuban artists have long gone unnoticed on a global scale. This poetry collection highlights the lives and legacies of… [more below]
- Author: Engle, Margarita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1478879602
- Language: English
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Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy Decarava
$18.99 Add to cartA Kirkus Reviews Most Anticipated Book of 2024
A child of the Harlem Renaissance and an artistic collaborator of Langston Hughes, Roy DeCarava is an unsung hero of Black history. Convinced that the li- Author: Golio, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1662680554
- Language: English
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The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 Fact-Filled Maps!
$30.00 Add to cartIn 51 charmingly illustrated infographic maps, explore every state of the USA from Alabama to Wyoming and the nation’s capital to discover more than 2,000 facts that celebrate the people, cities, natu
- Series: 50 States #1
- Author: Balkan, Gabrielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 01, 2015
- ISBN10: 1847807119
- Language: English
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Invincible: Fathers and Mothers of Black America
$18.99 Add to cartThis lyrical picture book explores the birth of Black America, focusing on the little-known men and women who fought for justice and for an America where freedom truly rang for all.
We’re familiar wit- Author: Hudson, Wade
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1635925096
- Language: English
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Who Was Jim Thorpe?
$6.99 Add to cartLearn about the incredible legacy of the first Native American athlete and Olympian to earn a gold medal for the United States in this exciting addition to the #1 New York Times Best-Selling series.
W- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Buckley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0399542639
- Language: English
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A Year of Black Joy: 52 Black Voices Share Their Life Passions
$22.99 Add to cartAn uplifting and empowering illustrated anthology of joyful contributions from 52 contemporary Black voices, including chess grandmaster Maurice Ashley, scientist Dr. Raven the Science Maven, and awar… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Jamia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 141976778X
- Language: English
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Countries of the World: Our World in Pictures
$24.99 Add to cartPacked with more than 1,000 incredible images and full of fascinating facts, this beautiful children’s book takes you on an exciting round-the-globe tour, with a stopover in every nation on every cont… [more below]
- Series: DK Our World in Pictures
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1465491503
- Language: English
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The Teachers March!: How Selma’s Teachers Changed History
$18.99 Read moreDemonstrating the power of protest and standing up for a just cause, here is an exciting tribute to the educators who participated in the 1965 Selma Teachers’ March.
Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader o- Author: Wallace, Sandra Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 162979452X
- Language: English
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Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series
$19.99 Add to cartThe true story of John Meyers and Charles Bender, who in 1911 became the first two Native pro baseball players to face off in a World Series. This picture book teaches important lessons about resilien
- Author: Sorell, Traci
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593406478
- Language: English
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Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz
$19.99 Read moreIn Of All Tribes, Abenaki children’s book icon Joseph Bruchac tells the stirring history of the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz by Native Americans, which established a precedent for Indian activism.
“Al- Author: Bruchac, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1419757199
- Language: English
