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1) The snowy day

Author

Keats, Ezra Jack

Language

English

Description

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Relates the adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.

2) The skin I'm in

Author

Flake, Sharon

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

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Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.

3) Monster

Author

Myers, Walter Dean

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Description

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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

4) Their eyes were watching God

Author

Hurston, Zora Neale

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audio

Description

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Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930's, journeys from being a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance.

5) Bud, not Buddy

Author

Curtis, Christopher Paul

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Description

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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 bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

6) My best friend

Author

Hutchins, Pat

Publisher

Greenwillow Books

Pub. Date

c1993

Language

English

Description

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Despite differences in abilities, two little girls appreciate each other and are "best friends."

7) Wagon wheels

Author

Brenner, Barbara

Series

An I can read history book

Publisher

Harper and Row

Pub. Date

c1978

Language

English

Description

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Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.

8) Amazing Grace

Author

Hoffman, Mary

Publisher

Dial Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

1991

Language

English

Description

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Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.

9) Sounder

Author

Armstrong, William Howard

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audio

Description

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Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.

10) The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963: a novel

Author

Curtis, Christopher Paul

Language

English

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Books for kids that address race and racism

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

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The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

11) Yo! Yes?

Author

Raschka, Christopher

Publisher

Orchard Books

Pub. Date

c1993

Language

English

Description

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Two lonely characters, one black and one white, meet on the street and become friends.

12) Gettin' through Thursday

Author

Cooper, Melrose

Publisher

Lee & Low Books

Pub. Date

1998

Language

English

Description

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Since money is tight on Thursdays, the day before his mother's payday, Andre is upset when he realizes that his report card and the promised celebration for making the honor roll will come on a Thursday.

13) A picture of freedom: the diary of Clotee, a slave girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859

Author

McKissack, Pat

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

1997

Language

English

Description

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In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.

14) The old dog

Author

Zolotow, Charlotte

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

1995

Language

English

Description

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When a young boy finds his old dog dead one morning, he spends the rest of the day thinking about all the good times they had together.

15) A gathering of old men

Author

Gaines, Ernest J

Publisher

Vintage Books

Pub. Date

1992

Language

English

16) Dark-thirty: Southern tales of the supernatural

Author

McKissack, Pat

Publisher

Scholastic Inc

Pub. Date

1993

Language

English

Description

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A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable.

17) The house of Dies Drear

Author

Hamilton, Virginia

Publisher

Collier Books

Pub. Date

1984

Language

English

Description

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A black family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.

18) Color me dark: the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration North

Author

McKissack, Pat

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2000

Language

English

Description

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Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.

19) Masai and I

Author

Kroll, Virginia L

Publisher

Maxwell Macmillan International

Pub. Date

1992

Language

English

Description

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Linda, a little girl who lives in the city, learns about East Africa and the Masai in school, and imagines what her life might be like if she were Masai.

20) I thought my soul would rise and fly: the diary of Patsy, a freed girl

Author

Hansen, Joyce

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

1997

Language

English

Description

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Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.

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1) The snowy day

2) The skin I'm in

3) Monster

4) Their eyes were watching God

5) Bud, not Buddy

6) My best friend

7) Wagon wheels

8) Amazing Grace

9) Sounder

10) The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963: a novel

11) Yo! Yes?

12) Gettin' through Thursday

13) A picture of freedom: the diary of Clotee, a slave girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859

14) The old dog

15) A gathering of old men

16) Dark-thirty: Southern tales of the supernatural

17) The house of Dies Drear

18) Color me dark: the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration North

19) Masai and I

20) I thought my soul would rise and fly: the diary of Patsy, a freed girl

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