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-- Seventeen seventy-six2000., Tom Doherty Associates Book Call No: Historical fiction FIC MASSIE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Young founders Volume: bk. 3Summary Note: Caleb Jacobson longs to join the volunteer army of Washington, but is torn between loyalty to his fellow colonials and his race.
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2021., Adolescent, Feiwel & Friends Call No: Mystery Fic Abike-Iyimide Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Almost as soon as two black students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are chosen to be senior class prefects at Niveus Private Academy, an anonymous bully named Aces begins revealing private information about them that both embarrasses them and threatens their futures at elite colleges. When the bullying turns serious, Devon and Chiamaka unite to find out who is behind the threats.
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c2006., Primary, Putnam's Call No: Picture Book MIC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jewish Abe's grandfather wants him to be a violinist while African-American Wille's father plans for him to be a great baseball pitcher, but it turns out that the two boys are more talented when they switch hobbies.
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c1997., Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: FIC REE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Edward, the son of a white plantation owner, and his black house servant, Simon, witness the siege of Petersburg during the Civil War.
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1998., Pleasant Co. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The American girls collectionSummary Note: After their escape from North Carolina to Philadelphia in the summer of 1864, Addy and her mother begin their new life as free people as her mother gets a paying job and Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.
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1993, Juvenile, Pleasant Call No: HIS FIC TRI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The American girls collectionSummary Note: After escaping from a plantation in North Carolina, Addy and her mother arrive in Philadelphia, where Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.
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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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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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2020., Juvenile, Viking Call No: Historical Fic Taylor Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Cassie Logan, now a young woman, has gone from the Logan family home in Toledo, then to California and Colorado, to law school in Boston, and finally in the 1960s back to Mississippi where it all started. There she joins the voter registration drive and is witness to the historic events of her era--the Great Migration to the north, postwar Americas racism, the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, and the violent confrontations that it sometimes takes to bring about real change.
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2023., Adolescent, Kokila Call No: HISTORICAL F ALL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Intertwining the stories of two Black students decades apart, this compelling and honest novel follows Kevin and Gibran as they navigate similar forms of insidious racism while discovering who they want to be instead of what society tells them they are.
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Ã2013., Anchor Books, a division of Random House LLC Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st Anchor Bks. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--Provided by publisher.
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2021., North Star Editions Call No: F PLA green dot Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Ana & AndrewSummary Note: Ana & Andrew think they have seen every fun place in their hometown of Washington, DC. They are surprised when Papa takes the family to a spot they haven't visited! There, they honor an ancestor who fought for freedom. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards.
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By Pink, Randi2021., Adolescent, Feiwel and Friends Call No: Historical Fic Pink Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Angel Hill, sixteen, and Isaiah Wilson, seventeen, attend the same African American school in 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma, but don't hang around in the same circles until a job working for a mobile library brings them together. As they collaborate for work, they bond over their knowledge of black civil rights authors and begin a tentative relationship. However, when a white mob attacks their community, the two realize they must put their civil rights theories into action.
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By Oshiro, Mark2018., Juvenile, TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES Call No: REALISTIC F OSH Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Six years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near crippling panic attacks. Now, in his sophomore year of high school, Moss and his fellow classmates find themselves increasingly treated like criminals in their own school. New rules. Random locker searches. Constant intimidation and Oakland Police Department stationed in their halls. Despite their youth, the students decide to organize and push back against the administration. When tensions hit a fever pitch and tragedy strikes, Moss must face a difficult choice: give in to fear and hate or realize that anger can actually be a gift.
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[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Stone Arch Books Call No: Hist. Gold Fiction SMITH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1854 in Eastern Maryland twelve-year-old Ann is a slave, grateful that her family is still all together; but when their master, in need of money, decides to sell Ann and her younger brother, their parents decide to take the dangerous step of running away north to freedom--a journey filled with danger, especially since they are not sure how to find the first station on the Underground Railroad.
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-- Armstrong and Charlie2017., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: FIC FRANK Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When Armstrong Le Rois gets signed up to be bussed to an all-white school in a different neighborhood, he's not sure what to think. And when he meets his deskmate, Charlie Ross, they're an unlikely pair. But as the year goes on, the two learn that there's nothing worth fighting for more than a true friend.
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-- Armstrong and Charlie.[2017]., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Young adult FIC FRANK Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade boys, one black, one white, become best friends as they learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s"--
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-- Armstrong and Charlie[2017], Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: REALISTIC F FRA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade boys, one black, one white, become best friends as they learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s.
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[2016]., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: Historical fiction FIC ANDERSON Edition: 1st ed. 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"--Provided by publisher.
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2016., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: FIC ANDERSON Edition: First edition. Genre: Historical fiction 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"--
