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2018., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: FIC SHABAZZ Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Historical fiction 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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2018., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Call No: FIC DRAPER Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Isabella's parents are divorced, so she has to switch lives every week: One week she's Isabella with her dad, his girlfriend Anastasia, and her son Darren living in a fancy house where they are one of the only black families in the neighborhood. The next week she's Izzy with her mom and her boyfriend John-Mark in a small, not-so-fancy house that she loves. Because of this, Isabella has always felt pulled between two worlds. And now that her parents are divorced, it seems their fights are even worse, and they're always about HER. Isabella feels even more stuck in the middle, split and divided between them than ever. And she's is beginning to realize that being split between Mom and Dad is more than switching houses, switching nicknames, switching backpacks: it's also about switching identities. Her dad is black, her mom is white, and strangers are always commenting: "You're so exotic!" "You look so unusual." "But what are you really?" She knows what they're really saying: "You don't look like your parents." "You're different." "What race are you really?" And when her parents, who both get engaged at the same time, get in their biggest fight ever, Isabella doesn't just feel divided, she feels ripped in two. What does it mean to be half white or half black? To belong to half mom and half dad? And if you're only seen as half of this and half of that, how can you ever feel whole?
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1995, c1964., Vintage Books Call No: DRAMA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Drama of racial oppression.
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2014., Nancy Paulsen Books Call No: B WOODSON Availability:7 of 7 At Location(s) Summary Note: Free verse autobiography of Jacqueline Woodson about her childhood growing up in the sixties and seventies in both the North and the South, from South Carolina to Brooklyn, New York.
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2021., Viking Call No: 811 GOR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, her poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future"--Jacket flap.
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2014., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: FIC ALEXANDER Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Josh Bell has a talent for composing raps, and he and his twin brother Jordan are kings of the basketball court. But when the twins' close relationship begins to unravel under the strain of changes in their lives, the brothers start to realize life isn't always about winning.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: GR 741.5 ALEXANDER Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . . The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. 'Cuz tonight I'm delivering," raps twelve-year-old Josh Bell. Thanks to their dad, he and his twin brother, Jordan, are kings on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his blood--he's got mad beats, too, which help him find his rhythm when it's all on the line. See the Bell family in a whole new light through Dawud Anyabwile's dynamic illustrations as the brothers' winning season unfolds, and the world as they know it begins to change.
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c1994., Juvenile, Knopf Call No: 811 HUGHES Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of sixty-six poems, selected by the author for young readers, including lyrical poems, songs, and blues, many exploring the black experience.
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c1994., Juvenile, Scholastic Inc. Call No: 811 HUGHES Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of sixty-six poems, selected by the author for young readers, including lyrical poems, songs, and blues, many exploring the black experience.
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By Ward, Jesmyn2017., Scribner Call No: 305.89 Fir Edition: First Scribner paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A collection of eighteen essays, memoir pieces, and poems addressing race in the United States and written in response to James Baldwin's 1962 "Letter to My Nephew" in which the author lamented that 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, it felt like African Americans were celebrating too soon.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: FIC WILLIAMS Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.
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2011., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: FIC NERI Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Cole's behavior causes his mother to drive him from Detroit to Philadelphia to live with a father he has never known, but who soon has Cole involved with a group of African-American "cowboys" who rescue horses and use them to steer youths away from drugs and gangs.
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2016., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: FIC REYNOLDS Edition: First edition. Genre: Sports fiction Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Rating:
(1 Ratings) Summary Note: When basketball player Castle Cranshaw--nicknamed Ghost--challenges an elite sprinter to a race and wins, he finds himself on the radar of an Olympic medalist track coach who wants to nurture his raw talent. But Ghost's anger and determination to outrun his past, could stand in the way of him making good use of his natural ability.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: FIC RHODES Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till.
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[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: F RAMEE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: All twelve-year-old Shayla wants to do is follow the rules, but when she starts seventh grade, the rules have changed. Her two best friends seem to be going their own ways and some people at school are saying that she's not black enough. After a ruling in a controversial court case involving the shooting of a black man by a white police officer, Shayla decides to join the Black Lives Matter movement and begins passing out black armbands at school. As the unrest in both Los Angeles and her school spreads, Shayla must figure out if some things are worth breaking the rules.
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1982, c1981., Bantam Call No: B Angelou Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: This fourth autobiographical work by Maya Angelou tells of her entry into New York's circle of black artists and writers, her involvement in the civil rights movement, and changes in her personal life.
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-- TeachingBooks original author programs2005., Adult, Teachingbooks.net Click here to watch Summary Note: Page includes a brief, original movie featuring Holly Black and The Spiderwick Chronicles co-creator Tony DiTerlizzi in their Amherst, Massachusetts homes discussing their series, as well as an additional movie of Black reading from The Ironwood Tree, Book 4 of The Spiderwick Chronicles. Also includes a movie transcript, an in-depth written interview, a comprehensive bibliography, and a collection of relevant off-site links, including Black's web site and the official Spiderwick site.
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-- TeachingBooks original author programs2005., Adult, Teachingbooks.net Click here to watch Summary Note: Page includes a brief, original movie featuring Holly Black and The Spiderwick Chronicles co-creator Tony DiTerlizzi in their Amherst, Massachusetts homes discussing their series, as well as an additional movie of Black reading from The Ironwood Tree, Book 4 of The Spiderwick Chronicles. Also includes a movie transcript, an in-depth written interview, a comprehensive bibliography, and a collection of relevant off-site links, including Black's web site and the official Spiderwick site.
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-- TeachingBooks original author programs2005., Adult, Teachingbooks.net Click here to watch Summary Note: Page includes a brief, original movie featuring Holly Black and The Spiderwick Chronicles co-creator Tony DiTerlizzi in their Amherst, Massachusetts homes discussing their series, as well as an additional movie of Black reading from The Ironwood Tree, Book 4 of The Spiderwick Chronicles. Also includes a movie transcript, an in-depth written interview, a comprehensive bibliography, and a collection of relevant off-site links, including Black's web site and the official Spiderwick site.
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-- TeachingBooks original author programs2005., Adult, Teachingbooks.net Click here to watch Summary Note: Page includes a brief, original movie featuring Holly Black and The Spiderwick Chronicles co-creator Tony DiTerlizzi in their Amherst, Massachusetts homes discussing their series, as well as an additional movie of Black reading from The Ironwood Tree, Book 4 of The Spiderwick Chronicles. Also includes a movie transcript, an in-depth written interview, a comprehensive bibliography, and a collection of relevant off-site links, including Black's web site and the official Spiderwick site.