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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children...
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children...
10) Monster
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English
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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.
11) Kwanzaa
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Enslow
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Introduces the African American holiday begun in 1966 which celebrates seven important principles.
12) Bud, not Buddy
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English
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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.
13) Yo! Yes?
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Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Two lonely characters, one black and one white, meet on the street and become friends.
16) My best friend
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1993
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English
Description
Despite differences in abilities, two little girls appreciate each other and are "best friends."
17) Malcolm X
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1970
Language
English
Description
Relates briefly the rise of a convict through self-education and love of his black brothers to become a leader of the black people of the United States.
18) Sounder
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Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1969]
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English
Description
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.
19) Wagon wheels
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Series
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Harper and Row
Pub. Date
c1978
Language
English
Description
Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
20) Ten, nine, eight
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
Numbers from ten to one are part of this lullaby which observes the room of a little girl going to bed.
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