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Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.28 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 7.37 * 0.00 +- 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.58 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide Leaving morning by Johnson, Angela Paperback(Orchard Books, 1992)Publication Date: 09/07/2021 BTSB #: 494678 Available Dewey: EAges: 4-8 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.55 * 0.00 +- 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.98 * 0.00 +- 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 11.47 * 0.00 +- 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 19.78 * 0.00 +- 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.52 * 0.00 +- 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.24 * 0.00 +- 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 7.37 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide Lesson before dying by Gaines, Ernest J. Paperback(Vintage Books, 1994)Publication Date: 09/28/1997 BTSB #: 363844 Available Dewey: FAges: 12-16 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 12.30 * 0.00 +- Let freedom ring! : stories about freedom in America Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2010) BTSB #: P01040 Available Dewey: 810.8/NAges: 5-8 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 42.74 * 0.00 +- 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.58 * 0.00 +- 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.58 * 0.00 +- 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 61.74 * 0.00 +- 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 9.83 * 0.00 +- 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.28 * 0.00 +- 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.28 * 0.00 +- 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 21.88 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide * Your Discounted Price You can't see me! I am INVISIBLE! 788 total titles found Page 19 of 40 View page of 40 18 19 20 1 each from this page1 each from all results You are viewing: Subject Search for african americans - fictionSort By Age Sort By Author Sort By Availability Sort By Dewey Sort By Media, Author, Title Sort By Price Sort By Pub. Year Sort by Relevance,Author Sort by Relevance,Title Sort By Stoplight Sort By Title Display 10 items Display 15 items Display 20 items Display 25 items Display 30 items Display 35 items Display 40 items Display 45 items Display 50 items Loading...