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41) Freewater
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Description
After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.
Author
Series
Ryan Hart novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
The Hart family of Portland, Oregon, faces many setbacks after Ryan's father loses his job, but no matter what, Ryan tries to bring sunshine to her loved ones.
Author
Series
Mia Mayhem volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
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.
44) Moonflower
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Description
Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and wants to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they rejects.
46) Hair love
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Appears on list
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Description
"A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self."
48) Peter's chair
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Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 3
Formats
Description
When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he rescues the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.
49) The snowy day
Author
Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 1
Formats
Description
The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.
50) Ghost boys
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
51) Kings of B'more
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Propelled by his best friend's impending move out of state and inspired by Ferris Bueller's Day Off, sixteen-year-old Harrison plans a farewell through Baltimore that includes a road trip, their first Pride, and a rooftop dance party.
52) Betty before X
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
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Series
Isaiah Dunn volume 2
Description
Now in middle school, Isaiah Dunn participates in a mentoring program, but he has a hunch that his mentee--a troublemaking third-grader name Kobe--has a secret and Isaiah is determined to get to the bottom of it.
55) Salt the water
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
A confrontation with a teacher and a family crisis force high school senior Cerulean Gene to drop out of twelfth grade and derails their dreams of moving cross-country and living off the grid.
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Series
Vanderbeekers volume 1
Description
Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.
58) Finding Langston
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Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Description
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
60) Baby says
Author
Pub. Date
©1988
Physical Desc
25 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
A baby and big brother figure out how to get along.
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