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1) Before the ever after

Author

Woodson, Jacqueline

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD

Description

For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. ZJ's mom explains it's because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. ZJ can understand...

2) Bud, not Buddy

Author

Curtis, Christopher Paul

Series

Thorndike Press large print mini-collections

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, Cassette - Audiobook, Large Print, Online Content

Description

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned band leader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

3) The crossover

Author

Alexander, Kwame

Series

Crossover volume 1

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print, Playaway, Playaway Wonderbook

Description

12-year-old Josh and his twin Jordan have basketball in their blood. They're kings of the court, star players for their school team. Their father used to be a champion player and they each want nothing more than to follow in his footsteps. Both on and off the court, there is conflict and hardship which will test Josh's bond with his brother. And when Jordan meets a girl, the boys find that life doesn't come with a play-book and it's not all about...

4) Each kindness

Author

Woodson, Jacqueline

Series

Weston Woods read-along CD

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD

Description

When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.

5) Finding Langston

Author

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Series

Finding Langston volume 1

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD

Description

When eleven-year-old Langston's father moves them from their home in Alabama to Chicago's Bronzeville district, it feels like he's giving up everything he loves. It's 1946. Langston's mother has just died, and now they're leaving the rest of his family and friends. He misses everything -- Grandma's Sunday suppers, the red dirt roads, and the magnolia trees his mother loved. In the city, they live in a small apartment surrounded by noise and chaos....

6) Genesis begins again

Author

Williams, Alicia

Series

Thorndike Press large print striving reader collection

Formats:

Book, Large Print, Playaway

Description

This deeply sensitive and powerful debut novel tells the story of a thirteen-year-old who must overcome internalized racism and a verbally abusive family to finally learn to love herself. There are ninety-six things Genesis hates about herself. She knows the exact number because she keeps a list. Like #95: Because her skin is so dark, people call her charcoal and eggplant -- even her own family. And #61: Because her family is always being put out...

7) Josephine: the dazzling life of Josephine Baker

Author

Powell, Patricia Hruby

Series

Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book

Description

A portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.

8) King and the dragonflies

Author

Callender, Kacen

Series

Thorndike Press large print striving reader collection

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print

Description

Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. When Khalid unexpectedly passed away, he shed what was his first skin for another to live down by the bayou in their small Louisiana town. Khalid still visits in dreams, and King must keep these secrets to himself as he watches grief transform his family. It would be easier if King could talk with his best friend, Sandy Sanders. But just days before he died, Khalid...

9) Let the children march

Author

Clark-Robinson, Monica

Description

Under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, children and teenagers march against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.

10) The me I choose to be

Author

Tarpley, Natasha Anastasia

Description

The possibilities are endless in this uplifting ode to the power of potential. With lyrical text by bestselling author Natasha Anastasia Tarpley and images by Regis and Kahran Bethencourt -- the team behind CreativeSoul Photography -- each page of The Me I Choose To Be is an immersive call for self-love that highlights the inherent beauty of all Black and brown children.

Author

Series

New kid volume 1

Formats:

Audiobook CD, Playaway

Description

2020 Audie Awards® Finalist—Middle Grade

Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature, and an Audie Award finalist!

An original full-cast audio adaptation of the graphic novel from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft, performed by the author with Jesus Del Orden, Nile Bullock, Robin Miles,

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12) One crazy summer

Author

Williams-Garcia, Rita

Series

One Crazy Summer

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, Playaway

Description

In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

13) Out of wonder: poems celebrating poets

Description

Presents a collection of 20 poems written in tribute to well-known poets from around the world.

14) Piecing me together

Author

Watson, Renée

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, Playaway

Description

Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private high school as someone who needs support, Jade would rather participate in the school's Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls. Jade wants to speak, to create, to express her joys and sorrows, her pain and her hope. Maybe there are some things she could show other women about understanding the world and finding ways to be real, to make a difference....

15) R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul

Author

Weatherford, Carole Boston

Description

Her song "Respect" was an anthem for people fighting for civil rights and women's rights. With words that sing and art that shines, this vibrant portrait of Aretha Franklin pays her the R-E-S-P-E-C-T this Queen of Soul deserves.

16) The season of Styx Malone

Author

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, GoReader, Playaway

Description

Caleb Franklin and his big brother, Bobby Gene, have the whole summer to explore the woods in Sutton, Indiana. Caleb longs to venture beyond their small town, but his dad likes the family to stay close to home. Then Caleb and Bobby meet their new neighbor Styx Malone. Styx is sixteen, and he oozes cool. He promises the boys that together, they can pull off the Great Escalator Trade - a way to turn one small thing into more, and more until they achieve...

17) The stars beneath our feet

Author

Moore, David Barclay

Series

Thorndike Press Large Print The Literacy Bridge

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print

Description

Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center.

18) Sulwe

Author

Nyong'o, Lupita

Description

Five-year-old Sulwe has skin the color of midnight. She is darker than everyone in her family. She is darker than anyone in her school. Sulwe just wants to be beautiful and bright, like her mother and sister. Then a magical journey in the night sky opens her eyes and changes everything.

Author

Christmas, Johnnie

Description

Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees--until she's stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule, the dreaded Swim 101. The thought of swimming makes Bree more than a little queasy, yet she's forced to dive headfirst into one of her greatest fears. Lucky for her, Etta, an elderly occupant of her apartment building and former swim team captain, is willing to help.

Author

Ringgold, Faith

Series

Scholastic big books

Description

A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Based on the author's quilt painting of the same name.