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Black Lives (kids)
Books for the Library Lover (Kids)
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
Books for the Library Lover (Kids)
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
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When she is chosen to compete in the local spelling bee, Stacey learns that, win or lose, her words are powerful, and sometimes perseverance is the most important word of all, in this debut picture book from the iconic voting rights advocate.
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Zonderkidz
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[2024]
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English
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"From award-winning actress and mental-health advocate Taraji P. Henson, You Can Be a Good Friend (No Matter What!) shows kids the great things that can happen when we approach others and ourselves with empathy, patience, and love. In this debut picture book from Taraji P. Henson, quirky, stylish and a bit off-the-cuff Lil TJ is ready for her first day of school. But when she gets there, TJ finds that everything she does is a little different than...
4) Shark teeth
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2024.
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English
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2025 ALA Youth Media Awards (SCPL-YS)
Diversity Awareness - Kids
Great Reads: 4th thru 6th grade
OBD ALA 2025 Award List Books - YOUTH
Diversity Awareness - Kids
Great Reads: 4th thru 6th grade
OBD ALA 2025 Award List Books - YOUTH
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Seventh-grader Sharkita "Kita" embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
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Mia Mayhem volume 1
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English
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Eight-year-old Mia Macarooney is delighted to learn she is from a family of superheroes, but her acceptance into the Program for In Training Superheroes requires she take a placement exam.
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Clarion Books
Publication Date
[2025]
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English
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Kenya Norwood likes things just the way they are. She's lived all her life in Pasadena with her dad and grandmother, she's attended the same school with the same friends since pre-K, and whether it's at outdoor club or her own lunch table, she loves being the center of attention. Even as she's about to start middle school, she knows one thing for sure: none of that is going to change. For Liberty Perry, change is all she's ever known. Her mother disappeared...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2018]
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English
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Black Authors: Youth Biographies (SCPL-YS)
Black History Biographies (WPL-Youth)
Black History Month - Youth
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Black History Biographies (WPL-Youth)
Black History Month - Youth
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When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
9) Amara's farm
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Where in the garden? volume 1
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English
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There are many plants on Amara's farm. Today is the day she looks for her pumpkins.
10) Sparrow
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Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Publication Date
2017.
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Sparrow Cooke of Brooklyn has always been the kind of child who prefers reading books to playing with friends (not that she has many of those) and since fifth grade the one person who seemed to understand her was the school librarian--so when Mrs. Wexler was killed in an accident, Sparrow's world came apart, and when she was found on the edge of the school roof everyone assumed that it was a suicide attempt, which Sparrow denies,...
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2023 Caudill Award Nominees
BBD Black History Month
Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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BBD Black History Month
Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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In a predominately white California beach town, the only two black seventh-graders, Alberta and Edie, find hidden journals that uncover family secrets and speak to race relations in the past.
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Nic Blake and the Remarkables volume 1
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English
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"It's not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are cool--like getting a pet hellhound for your twelfth birthday. Others, not so much--like not being trusted to learn magic because you might use it to take revenge on an annoying neighbor. All Nic Blake wants is to be a powerful Manifestor like her dad. But before she has a chance to convince him to teach her the gift, a series of shocking revelations and terrifying events...
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English
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Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month 2024
Black History Month Reads for Kids
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Black History Month 2024
Black History Month Reads for Kids
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Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
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Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.
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English
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Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month
Black History Month (WPLD)
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Black History Month
Black History Month (WPLD)
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When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help Avery get the recognition she craves, and it will also be a good idea for the school project about the history of her small North Carolina town, where racial tensions are never far from the surface--only it...
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Maya and the rising dark volume 2
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date
[2021]
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English
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In this highly anticipated sequel, Maya and the godlings must return to the sinister world of The Dark to retrieve the one thing keeping the veil between the worlds from crumbling: her father's soul. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky and Willa of the Wood.
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Ryan Hart volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Publication Date
2022.
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English
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Ryan is caught between two friends who both want to be her best friend, her brother ruins her latest baking project, and a classmate keeps teasing her at school, yet Ryan still looks for a way to see the bright side of things and not let anything steal her joy.
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English
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Eisenhower Public Library March Book Madness Bracket 2025
Kid Lit Classics (WPL-Youth)
OBD 1000 Books Before Kindergarten - YOUTH
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Kid Lit Classics (WPL-Youth)
OBD 1000 Books Before Kindergarten - YOUTH
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Overview: In 1968, a girl named Lisa fell in love with a little brown bear wearing green overalls with one button missing, and thousands of readers followed suit, making Corduroy one of the best-loved children's books of all time. Now, forty years later, Viking proudly celebrates Don Freeman's classic with a very special anniversary edition. With an extra-large trim size and special features including an embossed cover and four bonus spreads of never-before-seen...


