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-- Forty-seven2005, Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown Edition: 1st ed Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom
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c1998., Pleasant Co. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The American girls collectionSummary Note: Addy and her mother forgo their Christmas plans to help the newly freed slaves arriving in Philadelphia during the Civil War.
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[2014]., Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.
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2020., Adolescent, Viking Call No: HISTORICAL F TAY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated by the racist society of America, and the often violent confrontations that brought about change. Rich, compelling storytelling is Ms. Taylor's hallmark, and she fulfills expectations as she brings to a close the stirring family story that has absorbed her for over forty years. It is a story she was born to tell."--Goodreads.com.
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By Pink, Randi2021., Feiwel and Friends Call No: HISTORICAL F PIN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. A passionate follower of W.E.B. Du Bois, he believes that black people should rise up to claim their place as equals. Sixteen-year-old Angel Hill is a loner, mostly disregarded by her peers as a goody-goody. Her father is dying, and her family's financial situation is in turmoil. Also, as a loyal follower of Booker T. Washington, she believes, through education and tolerance, that black people should rise slowly and without forced conflict. Though they've attended the same schools, Isaiah never noticed Angel as anything but a dorky, Bible-toting church girl. Then their English teacher offers them a job on her mobile library, a three-wheel, two-seater bike. Angel can't turn down the money and Isaiah is soon eager to be in such close quarters with Angel every afternoon. But life changes on May 31, 1921 when a vicious white mob storms the community of Greenwood, leaving the town destroyed and thousands of residents displaced. Only then, Isaiah, Angel, and their peers realize who their real enemies are"--From the publisher's web site.
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2016., Pre-adolescent, A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book/Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: HISTORICAL F AND Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Seeds of America Volume: 3 Summary Note: As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state.
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[2016]., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Seeds of America Volume: bk 3Summary Note: "As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state"--Provided by publisher.
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: FIC ANDERSON Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state"--
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-- Octavian Nothing :2006-2008., Adolescent, Printed at the Sign of the Bear and Flame, by Candlewick Press Call No: HISTORICAL FIC AND Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian , from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as a part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
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[2021]., Pre-adolescent, Holiday House Call No: REALISTIC F CLI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and struggles in 1940's Chicago.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Square Fish Call No: [Fic] Edition: First Square Fish edition. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: HISTORICAL F SHA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
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[2017], Pre-adolescent, Random House Call No: Gold Fiction OSBORNE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Jack and Annie use the magic tree house to travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, where they pretend to be batboys at Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves"--
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By Brown, Echo2020., Adolescent, Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company Call No: FANTASY F BRO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more.
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[2020]., Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: HISTORICAL F HAM Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
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-- 1619 Project2021., Juvenile, Kokila Call No: LS Han Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Frustrated with a class assignment asking students to trace their roots to their ancestral homes, a young black girl explains to her family that she couldn't complete the assignment because she could only trace her family back three generations in the United States. Her grandmother gathers her and other family members around to tell them about their ancestral home on the West African plains, before slavery, and where their people thrived. She also explains how those who were captured for slavery, found ways to survive and carry on through the generations in spite of their terrible hardships and pain.
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-- 1619 Project2021., Juvenile, Kokila Call No: PICTURE HAN Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: Stymied by her unfinished family tree assignment for school, a young girl seeks Grandma's counsel and learns about her ancestors, the consequences of slavery, and the history of Black resistance in the United States.
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c2008., Primary, Greenwillow Books Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Uses the form of a blues song to share the story of the year-long bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked by seamstress Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger in 1955, which resulted in a repeal of the Jim Crow segregation laws.
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c2008., Greenwillow Books Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Uses the form of a blues song to share the story of the year-long bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked by seamstress Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger in 1955, which resulted in a repeal of the Jim Crow segregation laws.
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c2006., Pelican Pub. Co. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Realizing that his future lies in owning land, not just being free, a young man raised as a slave becomes a buffalo soldier--a member of an all-black cavalry regiment formed to protect white settlers from Indians, bandits, and outlaws, and that later fought in the Spanish American War. Includes historical note.