Ethnic Orientation/African American
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Brown Girl in the Ring
$18.99 Add to cartIn this “impressive debut” from award-winning speculative fiction author Nalo Hopkinson, a young woman must solve the tragic mystery surrounding her family and bargain with the gods to save her city a… [more below]
- Author: Hopkinson, Nalo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0446674338
- Language: English
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Help Is on the Way: Stay Up and Live Your Truth
$27.00 Read moreFind your hustle without losing your soul. Comedic superstar and internet entrepreneur Kountry Wayne made it to the top with a little bit of faith, a lot of perseverance, and a fearless commitment to … [more below]
- Author: Wayne, Kountry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0593236475
- Language: English
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Running Between Trees
$19.99 Add to cartSamira, a budding psychologist, is on her way to becoming the next Dr. Phil-or at least equally famous. Except that when confronted with the reality of choosing a career path, her ripe hunger for grea
- Author: Okeke, Gogo C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1647047501
- Language: English
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American Struggle: Teens Respond to Jacob Lawrence
$19.95 Add to cart“A fresh lens for viewing Jacob Lawrence’s art: through the perspective of teens of color. . . . An invaluable resource amplifying marginalized teen voices and conveying Lawrence’s relevance to their
- Author: Kim, Chul R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 164442021X
- Language: English
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King & Kayla and the Case of the Missing Dog Treats
$6.99 Add to cartKing & Kayla are back on the case in this laugh-out-loud mystery from the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award-winning series.
Kayla made peanut butter treats for Thor, Jillian’s new puppy. But now the tr- Series: King & Kayla
- Author: Butler, Dori Hillestad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1682630153
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Movie Tie-In Edition): Young Readers Edition
$9.99 Add to cartNow a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village.
W- Author: Kamkwamba, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1984816128
- Language: English
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Ty’s Travels: Beach Day!
$5.99 Add to cartA Geisel Honor-winning series * Author Kelly Starling Lyons selected as the 2021 Piedmont Laureate * A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year 2022
Join Ty on his imaginative adventures in Ty’s Tr
- Series: My First I Can Read
- Author: Lyons, Kelly Starling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0062951130
- Language: English
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Bang!
$12.99 Add to cartAs violence continues in his community, a 13-year-old boy must make some difficult choices to set his life on another course.
Bang! Guns really sound like that, you know. Bang! And people bleed from- Author: Flake, Sharon G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1368019404
- Language: English
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Track and Field Takedown
$8.99 Add to cartKyle’s school decides to host an Olympic Fest in honor of the Summer Olympics, and he’s assigned to compete in the track-and-field events. The only problem is, he’s no good at them. Will practice make… [more below]
- Series: Jake Maddox
- Author: Garcia, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1434239012
- Language: English
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The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne
$19.99 Read more“A powerful story.” —The Horn Book
“A worthy addition to children’s biography collections.” —Booklist “A solid treatment of an important but little-known figure, and it may prompt kids to think abou- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 148146289X
- Language: English
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Hadriana in All My Dreams
$18.95 Read more“One-of-a-kind . . . [A] ribald, free-wheeling magical-realist novel, first published in 1988 and newly, engagingly translated by Glover . . . An icon of Haitian literature serves up a hotblooded, rib
- Author: Depestre, René
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1617755338
- Language: English
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Grandpa Cacao: A Tale of Chocolate, from Farm to Family
$18.99 Read moreThis beautifully illustrated story connects past and present as a girl bakes a chocolate cake with her father and learns about her grandfather harvesting cacao beans in West Africa.
Chocolate is the p- Author: Zunon, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1681196409
- Language: English
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Lucky Caller
$23.99 Add to cartWith the warmth, wit, intimate friendships, and heart-melting romance she brings to all her books, Emma Mills crafts a story about believing in yourself, owning your mistakes, and trusting in human co
- Author: Mills, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1250763533
- Language: English
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Rich: A Dyamonde Daniel Book
$7.99 Add to cartThe second book in the Dyamonde Daniels series, by bestselling author Nikki Grimes, is great for fans of the Keena Ford, Judy Moody, and Magnificent Mya Tibbs series and includes illustrations by Core… [more below]
- Series: Dyamonde Daniel Book #2
- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0425288544
- Language: English
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Frederick Douglass
$5.99 Add to cartDiscover the world of one of America’s most celebrated abolitionists, writers, and orators in this inspirational biography of Frederick Douglass. Kids will learn about his life, achievements, and the … [more below]
- Series: Readers BIOS
- Author: Kramer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1426327560
- Language: English
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Panic
$19.99 Add to cartThis gripping and chillingly realistic novel from New York Times bestselling author Sharon Draper shows that all it takes is one bad decision for everything to change.
Diamond knows not to get into a- Author: Draper, Sharon M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1442408960
- Language: English
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How to Trick the Tooth Fairy
$17.99 Read moreFrom the coauthor of Dork Diaries comes a witty and engaging picture book about a prankster who wants to pull off the best prank of all–pranking the Tooth Fairy!
Kaylee loves pulling pranks: from dro- Author: Russell, Erin Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1481467328
- Language: English
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Black Catholics on the Road to Sainthood
$12.95 Add to cartThe Church in the United States is greatly blessed by the contributions of Black Catholics and the legacy of holiness of so many men and women of color. These men and women lived lives that are worthy
- Author: Heinlein, Michael R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1681927926
- Language: English
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Mother Country
$17.00 Read moreWinner of the 2022 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
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Shortlisted for the 2023 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction
Finalist for the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award- Author: Townsend, Jacinda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450879
- Language: English
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Tar Baby
$35.00 Add to cartA ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a… [more below]- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 1981
- ISBN10: 0394423291
- Language: English
