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The Day You Begin
Woodson, JacquelinePenguin Young Readers Group 2018 EnhancedA #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices! National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-...
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All Kinds of Friends
Rotner, Shelley; Kelly, Sheila M.Lerner Publishing Group 2017Friends can come in many different colors, shapes, and sizes. Through bright photographs and simple text, young readers will discover the many ways to be a friend and how to celebr...
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Niko Draws a Feeling
Raczka, RobertLerner Publishing Group 2017Niko loves to draw his world: the ring-a-ling of the ice cream truck, the warmth of sun on his face. But no one appreciates his art. Until one day, Niko meets Iris . . .This imagin...
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Strange Fruit : Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song
Golio, GaryLerner Publishing Group 2017The audience was completely silent the first time Billie Holiday performed a song called "Strange Fruit." In the 1930s, Billie was known as a performer of jazz and blues music, but...
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A Spy Called James : The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
Rockwell, AnneLerner Publishing Group 2016Told for the first time in picture book form is the true story of James Lafayette—a slave who spied for George Washington's army during the American Revolution. After his resoundi...
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Like a Bird : The Art of the American Slave Song
Grady, CynthiaLerner Publishing Group 2016Enslaved African Americans longed for freedom, and that longing took many forms—including music. Drawing on biblical imagery, slave songs both expressed the sorrow of life in bonda...
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The Runaway Santa: a Christmas Adventure Story
Lewis, Anne MargaretSky Pony 2015Once there was a jolly Santa who wanted to leave the North Pole on a worldwide vacation! He decides he wants to visit Mount Rushmore and see the stone faces of George Washington, T...
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The Book Itch : Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
Nelson Vaunda MicheauxLerner Publishing Group 2015Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, ALA Notable Children's Book, CCBC Best Children's Book of the Year, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Kirkus Best Children's Books, NCTE Nota...
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Game Changer : John McLendon and the Secret Game
Coy, JohnLerner Publishing Group 2015When they piled into cars and drove through Durham, North Carolina, the members of the Duke University Medical School basketball team only knew that they were going somewhere to pl...
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Bad News for Outlaws : The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
Nelson, Vaunda MicheauxLerner Publishing Group 2014Coretta Scott King Author Award Read about the fascinating life of Bass Reeves, who escaped slavery to become the first African American Deputy U.S. Marshal west of the Mississip...
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Almost to Freedom
Nelson Vaunda MicheauxLerner Publishing Group 2014Lindy and her doll Sally are best friends - wherever Lindy goes, Sally stays right by her side. They eat together, sleep together, and even pick cotton together. So, on the night L...
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A Boy Named Beckoning : The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero
Capaldi, GinaLerner Publishing Group 2014This story reveals the remarkable life of a Native American boy named Wassaja, or "Beckoning," who was kidnapped from his Yavapai tribe and sold as a slave. Adopted by an Italian p...
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Mumbet's Declaration of Independence
Woelfle, GretchenLerner Publishing Group 2014"All men are born free and equal." Everybody knows about the Founding Fathers and the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But the founders weren't the only ones who believed t...
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Sacagawea
Erdrich, LiselotteLerner Publishing Group 2014Taking a rare look beyond the myths and legends surrounding Sacagawea's life, this extraordinary illustrated history recounts the known facts about a remarkable women and her contr...
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Red Bird Sings : The Story of Zitkala-Ša, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist
Capaldi, Gina; Pearce, Q. L.Lerner Publishing Group 2014"I remember the day I lost my spirit." So begins the story of Gertrude Simmons, also known as Zitkala-Ša, which means Red Bird. Born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in Sou...