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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
When sixteen-year-old Sadie, a Black bisexual recluse, develops agoraphobia the summer before her junior year, she relies on her best friend, family, and therapist to overcome her fears.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First board book edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Relates the experiences of a dark-skinned, curly-haired child who is teased for looking different than the other kids. His skin is darker, his hair curlier. He tells his mother he wishes he could be more like everyone else. And she helps him to see how beautiful he really, truly is"--
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old David and his family gather at Grandma's house in Galveston, Texas, for a cherished family tradition--Grandma's annual retelling of the story of Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.