Ethnic Orientation/African American
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Isobel Adds It Up
$8.99 Read moreThe perfect book for math-loving kids is now in paperback! Isobel just wants to do her math homework in peace, but some noisy neighbors distract from schoolwork by making her wonder who could be makin… [more below]
- Author: Everington, Kristy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0593569113
- Language: English
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Save It for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest
$18.99 Read moreFrom Nate Powell, the National Book Award-winning artist of the March trilogy, a collection of graphic nonfiction essays about living in a new era of necessary protest.
In seven interwoven comics ess- Author: Powell, Nate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1419749137
- Language: English
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I’m Possible: A Story of Survival, a Tuba, and the Small Miracle of a Big Dream
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the streets of Baltimore to the halls of the New Mexico Philharmonic, a musician shares his remarkable story in I’m Possible, an inspiring memoir of perseverance and possibility.
“Powerful . . .- Author: White, Richard Antoine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1250269660
- Language: English
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Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
$45.00 Read moreNineteenth-century stoneware by enslaved and free potters living in Edgefield, South Carolina, highlights the central role of Black artists in the region’s long-standing pottery traditions
Recenterin- Author: Spinozzi, Adrienne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1588397262
- Language: English
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EllRay Jakes Rocks the Holidays!
$6.99 Read moreThe small kid with big problems returns in the seventh book of this beloved series
It’s almost Christmas and school is going great for EllRay. He’s “blending in” just the way he likes. So when his fa- Series: EllRay Jakes #07
- Author: Warner, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2014
- ISBN10: 0147512514
- Language: English
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Under the Greenwood Tree
$11.95 Add to cart“Miss Fancy Day; as neat a little figure of fun as ever I see, and just husband-high.”
One of the most popular of Hardy’s novels, Under the Greenwood Tree is a delightful and humorous depiction of lif- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0199697205
- Language: English
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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
$8.00 Read moreIn an effort to provide unemployed writers with work during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States Government, through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), funded the Federal Writers
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Yetman, Norman R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0486420701
- Language: English
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Bluish
$5.99 Read moreIn this powerful novel researched in NYC schools, Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton documents the struggle young people face as they simultaneously assert their independence and yearn for guidance.
Fr… [more below]
- Author: Hamilton, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0439367867
- Language: English
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The Prison-Ship Adventure of James Forten, Revolutionary War Captive
$9.99 Read moreCaptured at sea . . . a young man must choose between his country and his freedom.
The Atlantic Ocean, 1781. James Forten is a free African American sailor on an American ship, the Royal Louis, during
- Series: History’s Kid Heroes (Quality Paper)
- Author: Figley, Marty Rhodes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0761370757
- Language: English
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Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African-American Students
$16.95 Read more“An important and powerful book” that radically reframes the debates swirling around the academic achievement of African-American students (Boston Review)
“The solutions offered by each essay are crea… [more below]- Author: Perry, Theresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 183
- Publish Date: February 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0807031054
- Language: English
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The Mystery of the Missing Lion
$7.99 Add to cartA detective in the wild.
Young Precious gets a very special treat. She gets a trip to visit her Aunty Bee at a safari camp. While there she makes a new friend, a boy named Khumo, and meets an actor-li- Series: Precious Ramotswe Mystery for Young Readers #3
- Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0804173273
- Language: English
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A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$8.99 Read moreAn introduction to one of the most outstanding Americans of the twentieth century, perfect for young readers.
Born in 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. grew up to become a civil rights leader whose philo- Series: Picture Book Biography
- Author: Adler, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0823408477
- Language: English
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Who Am I?: The Supreme Understanding (the Anatomy of Ego)
$15.95 Read moreEgo is the feeling of being separate from God, from that which is, Since we feel we are separate or distinct from the Creator, as well as creation itself, there is no sense of connection with our inne… [more below]
- Author: Ra Afrika, Bhagwau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: December 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0948390573
- Language: English
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Our Fruiting Bodies: Short Fiction
$19.00 Read moreOur Fruiting Bodies collects stories of old growth and fresh decay, of stubborn rebirth and the faint but nonimaginary paths connecting life and nonlife. From the sharp, sweet confessional of their Pe
- Author: Shawl, Nisi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1619762242
- Language: English
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Power Forward: My Journey from Illiterate NBA Player to a Magna Cum Laude Master’s Degree
$28.95 Read moreDean Tolson was one of the top prep basketball players in the state of Missouri his junior and senior years at Central High School in Kansas City. So, when the colleges came running, he accepted a ful
- Author: Tolson, Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1493076892
- Language: English
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Project Animal Rescue (Alyssa Milano’s Hope #2): Volume 2
$14.99 Read moreThe local animal shelter might be closing — and it’s up to Hope Roberts to save it
Meet Hope Roberts. She’s eleven years old, and she wants to be an astrophysicist. She loves swimming, Galaxy Girl co… [more below]
- Series: Alyssa Milano’s Hope #2
- Author: Milano, Alyssa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1338329413
- Language: English
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Historic Black Neighborhoods of Raleigh
$23.99 Read moreThe story of Raleigh’s African American communities begins before the Civil War. Towns like Oberlin Village were built by free people of color in the antebellum era. During Reconstruction, the creatio… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Cauthen, Carmen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1467150886
- Language: English
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Max and Zoe at the Doctor
$7.99 Read moreAfter a fun day at the park, Max and Zoe are ready to get some ice cream. Unfortunately, Max takes a big fall and has to go to the doctor instead. Thankfully Zoe is there to make him feel better.
Autho… [more below]
- Series: Max & Zoe (Quality)
- Author: Swanson Sateren, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1404880607
- Language: English
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Zoo Day
$18.99 Add to cartBeloved author Anne Rockwell celebrates animals of all kinds with a gorgeous new picture book about a child’s first visit to the zoo!
A young boy and his family visit the zoo for the very first time.- Series: A My First Experience Book
- Author: Rockwell, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1481427342
- Language: English
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Shadows of Caesar’s Creek
$6.99 Add to cartIn this third book of the classic chapter book series by award-winning author Sharon M. Draper, four boys who call themselves the Black Dinosaurs go on a spooky camping trip filled with Native America… [more below]
- Series: Clubhouse Mysteries #3
- Author: Draper, Sharon M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 1442427116
- Language: English
