Pat McKissack
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Publication Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
OBD Valentine's Day (February) - YOUTH
Unity in My Community - ROD Children's
OBD Valentine's Day (February) - YOUTH
Unity in My Community - ROD Children's
Description
Despite their own poverty since Daddy died, Mama tells nine-year-old James Otis they need to help Sarah, whose family lost everything in a fire.
Author
Language
English
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Black History Month
OBD 1000 Books Before Kindergarten - YOUTH
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
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OBD 1000 Books Before Kindergarten - YOUTH
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
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Description
In segregated Nashville during the 1950s, a young African American girls endures a series of indignities and obstacles to get to the public library, one of the few integrated places in the city.
Author
Series
Dear America volume 5
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Publication Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Parents and grandparents will delight in sharing this exuberant book with the children in their lives. Here is a songbook, a storybook, a poetry collection, and much more, all rolled into one. Find a partner for hand claps such as "Eenie, Meenie, Sassafreeny," or form a circle for games like "Little Sally Walker." Gather as a family to sing well-loved songs like "Amazing Grace" and "Oh, Freedom," or to read aloud the poetry of such African American...
11) Bugs!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Simple text and illustrations of a variety of insects introduce the numbers one through five.
18) Never forgotten
Author
Language
English
Description
In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Publication Date
2004.
Language
English
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Description
Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.




