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[2017]., Primary, Holiday House Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Presents an illustrated, reverse chronological history of the life of Harriet Tubman.
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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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-- She persisted: Claudette Colvin2021., Primary, Philomel Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Before Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin made the same choice. She insisted on standing up--or in her case, sitting down--for what was right, and in doing so, fought for equality, fairness, and justice"--Provided by publisher.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Holiday House Call No: HISTORICAL F CLI Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
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[2018], Pre-adolescent, Holiday House Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: After his mother's death in 1946, eleven-year-old Langston and his father leave behind their quiet life in Alabama and move to Chicago. Struggling to fit in and missing his mother, Langston finds refuge at the local library where, unlike his library in Alabama, blacks are just as welcome as whites to use. There he discovers the poetry of Langston Hughes and a secret--he was named after this very poet whose work his mother loved.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Holiday House Call No: Historical fiction FIC CLINE-RANSOME Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
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[2023]., Adolescent, Holiday House Call No: HISTORICAL F CLI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north--if only he could curb his impulsiveness and rebellious nature. Lamb herself is a quiet and studious girl. She is also naive. As she tentatively accepts the friendly overtures of a white girl who loans her a book she loves, she sets off a calamitous series of events that pulls in her mother, charming hustler uncle, estranged father, and brother, and ends in a lynching"--From the publisher's web site.
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2018., Simon & Schuster Call No: 796 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Venus and Serena Williams are two of the greatest tennis players of all time. Some say they re two of the greatest athletes of all time. Before they were world famous, they were little girls with big dreams.
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[2018], Juvenile, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Presents a brief, illustrated account of the childhoods and relationship between sisters and tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.
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-- Just a lucky so & so[2016], Pre-adolescent, Holiday House Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the life and career of jazz musician Louis Armstrong, who grew up amidst poverty and prejudices, but through mentorships, went on to introduce the world to jazz.
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[2016]., Juvenile, Holiday House Call No: E B CLI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Relates the story of jazz innovator Louis Armstong's rise from street waif to international superstar.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Holiday House Call No: HISTORICAL F CLI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.
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c2013, Primary, Disney/Jump at the Sun Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Risking a whipping if they are discovered, Rosa and her mama sneak away from their slave quarters during the night to a hidden location in a field where they learn to read and write in a pit school.
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c2013., Primary, Disney/Jump at the Sun Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Risking a whipping if they are discovered, Rosa and her mama sneak away from their slave quarters during the night to a hidden location in a field where they learn to read and write in a pit school.
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c2004, Primary, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Introduces the life of the African American bicycle racer who won the 1899 World Championship title.
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2015., A Paula Wiseman Book, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As a child, Robert Battle wore braces to straighten his legs, and he didn't start ballet until age thirteen. But neither challenge stopped him from becoming a professional dancer and an artistic director.
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[2024]., Pre-adolescent, Holiday House Call No: HISTORICAL F CLI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--Provided by publisher.
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c2001., Primary, Holiday House Call No: Easy CLINE-RAMSOME Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a rhyming riddle for each letter of the alphabet and includes folk art illustrations that provide clues to the answers.
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c2000, Pre-adolescent, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the life of the legendary baseball player, who was the first African-American to pitch in a Major League World Series.