Ethnic Orientation/African American
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Altogether Different: A Memoir About Identity, Inheritance, and the Raid That Started the Civil War
$17.00 Add to cartIf you could choose between being Black and being white, what would you do?
As a child, Brianna Wheeler, the mixed-race descendant of Dangerfield Newby-first of John Brown’s raiders to die at Harpers F
- Author: Wheeler, Brianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1957024054
- Language: English
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Autumn Song: Essays on Absence
$19.95 Add to cartWe all live lives littered with what we leave behind: places we once lived, friendships we once had, dreams we once envisioned, the people we once were. Each new day we attempt to find a way to contin… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Gopo, Patrice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235800
- Language: English
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When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems
$26.95 Add to cartIn this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays–Caliban and Sycorax from?The Tempest, Aaron the Mo
- Author: Jordan, A. Van
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050934
- Language: English
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Frankie Sparks and the Class Pet
$7.99 Add to cartIvy and Bean meets Aliens in my Pocket in this start to a brand-new chapter book series about Frankie Sparks, a third grader who uses her love for science and math to help her solve problems she comes… [more below]
- Series: Frankie Sparks, Third-Grade Inventor #1
- Author: Blakemore, Megan Frazer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1534430431
- Language: English
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Epic Athletes: Lebron James
$7.99 Add to cartEpic Athletes: LeBron James is an inspiring young readers biography of the best basketball player of the modern era from celebrated sports journalist Dan Wetzel!
Featuring comic-style illustrations by- Series: Epic Athletes #5
- Author: Wetzel, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 125061984X
- Language: English
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Me (Moth): (National Book Award Finalist)
$19.99 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE
A debut YA novel-in-verse by Amber McBride, Me (Moth) is about a teen girl who is grieving the deaths of her family, and a teen- Author: McBride, Amber
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1250780365
- Language: English
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Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist
$18.99 Read morePauli Murray was a trailblazer who spent her life fighting for civil rights and women’s rights. Writer, lawyer, activist, priest, Pauli was a champion for justice. Her extraordinary life is immortaliz… [more below]
- Author: Jennings, Terry Catasús
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1499812515
- Language: English
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Build a House
$17.99 Add to cartGrammy Award winner Rhiannon Giddens celebrates Black history and culture in her unflinching, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated picture book debut.
I learned your words and wrote my song. I put my- Author: Giddens, Rhiannon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1536222526
- Language: English
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I Am Harriet Tubman
$16.99 Add to cartHarriet Tubman’s heroic and pivotal role in the fight against slavery is the subject of the fourteenth picture book in this New York Times bestselling biography series. (Cover may vary)
This friendly,- Series: Ordinary People Change the World
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 073522871X
- Language: English
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The New Small Person
$8.99 Add to cartLauren Child tells the familiar tale of a less-than-welcome sibling with subtlety, insight, affection, and humor.
Elmore Green starts life as an only child, as many children do. He has a room to himse- Author: Child, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0763699748
- Language: English
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The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines
$24.00 Add to cartWith an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps–the last all-white branch of the U.S. military–was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African … [more below]
- Author: McLaurin, Melton A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0807861766
- Language: English
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What Were the Negro Leagues?
$7.99 Add to cartThis baseball league that was made up of African American players and run by African American owners ushered in the biggest change in the history of baseball.
In America during the early twentieth ce- Series: What Was?
- Author: Johnson, Varian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1524789984
- Language: English
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Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Sugar Plums to the Rescue!
$6.99 Add to cartThe fifth book of the award-winning and bestselling Sugar Plum Ballerinas series by Whoopi Goldberg–now featuring brand-new illustrations!
At the Nutcracker School of Ballet in Harlem, young dancers … [more below]- Series: Sugar Plum Ballerinas #5
- Author: Goldberg, Whoopi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 031629490X
- Language: English
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The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall’s Life, Leadership, and Legacy
$8.99 Add to cartA brilliant picture book biography about Thurgood Marshall, who fought for equality during the Civil Rights Movement and served as the first Black justice on the Supreme Court, from Coretta Scott King
- Author: Magoon, Kekla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0062912526
- Language: English
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L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food
$35.00 Add to cartA memoir and cookbook from the creator of the gourmet Korean-Mexican taco truck Kogi, the star of Netflix’s “The Chef Show,” and the culinary advisor to Jon Favreau’s film “Chef.”
“Roy Choi sits at the
- Author: Choi, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0062202634
- Language: English
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I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays
$19.99 Add to cart“Very good writers have an ability to make you understand what they’re feeling. But the very best writers have an ability to make you understand what you’re feeling. And that’s where Michael Arceneaux
- Author: Arceneaux, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0063140411
- Language: English
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Brilliant Brown Babies
$13.99 Add to cartBrilliant brown babies is a picture book showcasing how special and beautiful it is to be a child of color. This book uses simple pictures and language to convey pride in the rich culture that our bri
- Author: Williams, Desiree L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 38
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0578663309
- Language: English
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The Story of Simone Biles: An Inspiring Biography for Young Readers
$6.99 Add to cartDiscover the life of Simone Biles–a story about going for the gold for kids ages 6 to 9
Simone Biles has been called the greatest gymnast of all time, winning five Olympic and 25 World Champion medal- Series: The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers
- Author: Burk, Rachelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 66
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1647397758
- Language: English
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Gullah Tears: The Enslaved Souls of Charleston
$20.95 Add to cartIn the Deep South of antebellum Charleston, enslaved Gullah woman Hentie survives the day-to-day sufferings brought on by her cruel master and the white planter society that controls the institution o… [more below]
- Author: Olsvig, Josie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: October 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1646631463
- Language: English
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
$30.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY
Booklist #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year * African American Literary Book Club (AALBC) #1 Nonfiction Bestseller * Named a Best Book of the Year by: NPR, P- Author: Rembert, Winfred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1635576598
- Language: English
