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265916
Last stop on Market Street by de la Pena, Matt 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2015)


Publication Date: 01/08/2015

BTSB #: 265916 Available

Dewey: EAges: 3-5   
AR: 3.3 LG RC: 2.4 K-2 Lexile: 610 AD F&P: N

Genres: Family Life


Subjects: Buses - Fiction Grandmothers - Fiction City and town life - Fiction African Americans - Fiction


Summary: A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.


544520
Leaving Gee's Bend by Latham, Irene 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2010)


Publication Date: 01/15/2010

BTSB #: 544520 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 4.3 3-5 Lexile: 700

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Quilting - Fiction Quilts - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Alabama - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: Ludelphia Bennett, a determined 10-year-old African American girl in 1932 Gee's Bend, Alabama, leaves home in an effort to find medical help for her sick mother, and recounts her ensuing adventures in a quilt she is making.


6.50 *

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222864
Leaving Lymon [Finding Langston Trilogy Volume: Book 2]by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

Paperback(Holiday House, 2021)


Publication Date: 06/01/2021

BTSB #: 222864 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG Lexile: 760

Genres: Family Life Historical Fiction


Subjects: Family problems - Fiction Moving - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Milwaukee (Wis.) - History|y20th century - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.


7.37 *

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222871
Leaving Lymon by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2020)


Publication Date: 01/07/2020

BTSB #: 222871 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life


Subjects: Family problems - Fiction Moving - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Milwaukee (Wis.) - History|y20th century - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.


494678
Leaving morning by Johnson, Angela 

Paperback(Orchard Books, 1992)


Publication Date: 09/07/2021

BTSB #: 494678 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   


Subjects: Moving - Fiction African Americans - Fiction


Summary: On the leaving morning, a child watches for the moving men, has a cup of cocoa in the deli across the street, and leaves lip marks on the window of the apartment before departing for the new home.


6.55 *

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697555
Legend of gravity : a tall basketball tale by Palmer, Charly 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2022)


Publication Date: 01/04/2022

BTSB #: 697555 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 4.6 LG Lexile: 800 AD

Genres: Sports


Subjects: Basketball - Tournaments - Fiction Tall tales Athletic ability - Fiction African Americans - Fiction


Summary: Gravity is the new kid on the Hillside Projects basketball team, the Eagles. With Gravity on their side, the Eagles feel unstoppable. But when they face-off against the Flyers in the final round of Milwaukee's pick-up basketball tournament, they realize that it may take a little more than Gravity to bring them to victory.


23.98 *

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274167
Legendborn [Legendborn Cycle Volume: Book 1]by Deonn, Tracy 

Paperback(Margaret K. McElderry, 2022)


Publication Date: 02/01/2022

BTSB #: 274167 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.2 UG Lexile: 730 HL

Genres: Fantasy Fiction Supernatural Multicultural


Subjects: Secret societies - Fiction Genealogy - Fiction Demonology - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Colleges and universities - Fiction Magic - Fiction North Carolina - Fiction


Summary: To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights.


11.47 *

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274204
Legendborn [Legendborn Cycle Volume: Book 1]by Deonn, Tracy 

BTSB Prebound(Margaret K. McElderry, 2020)


Publication Date: 09/15/2020

BTSB #: 274204 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.2 UG Lexile: 730 HL

Genres: Fantasy Fiction Supernatural Multicultural


Subjects: Secret societies - Fiction Genealogy - Fiction Demonology - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Colleges and universities - Fiction Magic - Fiction North Carolina - Fiction


Summary: To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights.


19.78 *

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Lena and the burning of Greenwood : a Tulsa Race Massacre survival story [Girls Survive]by Smith, Nikki Shannon 

Paperback(Stone Arch, 2022)


Publication Date: 01/01/2022

BTSB #: 827123 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.9 MG Lexile: 580

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life


Subjects: Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Tulsa (Okla.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district. As the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob.


6.52 *

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931575
Length of a string by Weissman, Elissa Brent 

Publisher Edition - Large Print Hardcover(Thorndike Press, 2019)


Publication Date: 01/01/2020

BTSB #: 931575 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5 MG Lexile: 730 F&P: Z

Genres: Multicultural Historical Fiction Family Life


Subjects: Adoption - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Families - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Fiction


Summary: Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary. Large print hardcover format.


23.24 *

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931577
Length of a string by Weissman, Elissa Brent 

Paperback(Puffin Books, 2020)


Publication Date: 04/07/2020

BTSB #: 931577 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 730 F&P: Z

Genres: Multicultural Historical Fiction Family Life


Subjects: Adoption - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Families - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Fiction


Summary: Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary.


363844
Lesson before dying by Gaines, Ernest J. 

Paperback(Vintage Books, 1994)


Publication Date: 09/28/1997

BTSB #: 363844 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   


Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Prisoners - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Louisiana - Fiction


Summary: Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him to visit Jefferson in his cell before his death.


12.30 *

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P01040
Let freedom ring! : stories about freedom in America

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2010)

BTSB #: P01040 Available

Dewey: 810.8/NAges: 5-8   


Subjects: Brown, Henry Box,|db. 1816 - Fiction Lincoln, Abraham,|d1809-1865 Douglass, Frederick,|d1818-1895 Lincoln, Abraham,|d1809-1865.|tGettysburg address Slavery - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Presidents United States - History


Summary: A collection of children's stories about freedom and slavery in America.


42.74 *

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512534
Let the children march by Clark-Robinson, Monica 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)


Publication Date: 01/02/2018

BTSB #: 512534 Available

Dewey: EAges: 6-9   
AR: 3.8 LG RC: 3.7 3-5 Lexile: 650

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Civil rights demonstrations - Fiction Segregation - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Birmingham (Ala.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: Under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, children and teenagers march against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.


22.58 *

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Let the monster out by Lucas, Chad 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2022)


Publication Date: 05/17/2022

BTSB #: 589744 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
F&P: Z

Genres: Mystery Fiction Supernatural


Subjects: City and town life - Fiction Friendship - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Autism - Fiction Mystery fiction Supernatural - Fiction


Summary: Bones Malone feels like he can't do anything right in his small new town. He's one of the few Black kids in Langille. To make matters worse, things in town are getting weird. Kyle Specks feels like he can never say the right thing at the right time. He thinks he might be neurodivergent and his parents are overprotective about it, but he can't stand by as the town gets weirder. He and Bones find a mysterious scientist's journal that might hold answers about what's going on.


22.58 *

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P03534
Liberty by Larson, Kirby 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2016)


Publication Date: 10/11/2016

BTSB #: P03534 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life Animals


Subjects: Dogs - Fiction Poliomyelitis - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction Family life - Louisiana - New Orleans - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Prisoners of war - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Friendship - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction New Orleans (La.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: In 1940s New Orleans, Fish Elliot is a polio-survivor with a knack for inventing and building things, and his African American neighbor Olympia is a girl with a talent for messing things up, but they are united in an effort to save a starving stray dog they call Liberty--and when Liberty is caged by a nasty farmer, they find an unlikely ally in a German prisoner of war, Erich, who is not much older than the two children.


61.74 *

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340069
Life I'm in by Flake, Sharon G. 

Paperback(Scholastic, 2022)


Publication Date: 08/02/2022

BTSB #: 340069 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 3.5 UG

Genres: Multicultural Adventure Fiction


Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Human trafficking - Fiction Teenage girls - Fiction


Summary: Turned out of the only home she has known, Charlese Jones, aka Char, boards a bus to nowhere where she is lured into the dangerous web of human trafficking. While Char might be frightened, she remains strong and determined to bring herself and her fellow victims out of the dark and back into the light.


9.83 *

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340071
Life I'm in by Flake, Sharon G. 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2021)


Publication Date: 01/05/2021

BTSB #: 340071 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 3.5 UG

Genres: Multicultural


Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Human trafficking - Fiction Teenage girls - Fiction


Summary: Turned out of the only home she has known, Charlese Jones, aka Char, boards a bus to nowhere where she is lured into the dangerous web of human trafficking. While Char might be frightened, she remains strong and determined to bring herself and her fellow victims out of the dark and back into the light.


23.28 *

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Light it up by Magoon, Kekla 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2019)


Publication Date: 10/22/2019

BTSB #: 596683 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 3.7 UG Lexile: 480 HL

Genres: Multicultural


Subjects: Death - Fiction Police shootings - Fiction Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction


Summary: Told from multiple viewpoints, Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators.


23.28 *

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207634
Like Vanessa by Charles, Tami 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2019)


Publication Date: 03/13/2018

BTSB #: 207634 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.9 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 730 F&P: Z+

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Williams, Vanessa - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Beauty contests - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Family life - New Jersey - Newark - Fiction School stories Self-confidence - Fiction Newark (N.J.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.


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