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2) Skin again
Author
Language
English
Description
The skin I'm in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story. The skin I'm in is just a covering. If you want to know who I am, you have got to come inside and open your heart way wide. Celebrating all that makes us unique and different, [this book] offers new ways to talk about race and identity. Race matters, but only so much-- what's most important is who we are on the inside. Looking beyond skin, going straight to the heart, we find in each other...
Author
Publisher
DreamTitle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
I'm a pretty little black girl! introduces adorable Mia, who wakes with her hair "just-a-going every which-a-ways!" With her abundant energy and joy leading the way, readers follow Mia as she plays with her friends who are all shades, shapes and sizes. There's tall Kia, Keisha the reader, Charlotte her best friend, Dina Rose-Marie the artist, Imani the dancer, Anna who loves sports, Ruby the singer, and honey-haired Tracy. Mia finds that "Pretty"...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Florida kitsch swirls together with magical realism in this glittering debut novel about a young Black and Indigenous woman who learns to change the color of her skin. Gabrielle has always had a complicated relationship with her mother Tallulah, one marked by intimacy and resilience in the face of a volatile patriarch. Everything in their home has been bleached a cold white -- from the cupboards filled with sheets and crockery to the food and spices...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.
Author
Publisher
Cuento de Luz
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"Vega y sus l̀pices de colores eran inseparables. Juntos creaban los dibujos m̀s impresionantes que luego colgaban en el mejor museo del mundo: la nevera de casa. Sus pinturas conten̕an todos los colores que os pod̀is imaginar: rojo, amarillo, azul, dorado... En el colegio, Vega estaba sumergida en una de sus nuevas creaciones cuando su amigo ℓlex se acerc̤ a ella y, mirando la caja de colores que ten̕a Vega, le pregunt̤: ¿Me dejas el color...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Amitra and Kiki get dressed for their siblings' weddings while enduring family nitpicks about lightening cream, sun rays, and the skin-darkening effects of the color yellow. Luckily, Amitra's mother has a lesson or two to teach about that! With the support and empowerment of their moms, the sunflower sisters are two strong, confident South Asian and Nigerian girls finding joy in their own skin"--
Author
Publisher
Cuento de Luz SL
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Vega and her friend Alex wonder why the pencil in the box is called 'skin color' when it doesn't match either of them. This question leads them on a beautiful journey of exploring the diverse array of skin colors they see in the world. Together, they discover how to bring all of them into their art."--
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When you ask me why your skin is brown, I will tell you that you are my favorite color. I will say that your skin was decided long, long ago. Time was just waiting for you. So begins a mother's celebration of her children's brown skin, told through warm and vivid poetry."--
14) Golden boy
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"A Tanzanian albino boy finds himself the ultimate outsider, hunted because of the color of his skin"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The very first Crayon Activist presents this picture book in which she spreads a message of inclusivity, empowerment and the importance of inspiring the next generation of leaders through The Peach Project and crayons"--
17) Nesting dolls
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A little girl struggling to find her place within her family is shown how special she is through a set of nesting dolls.
18) Dark girls
Publisher
Amistad/HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A companion book to the NAACP Award-nominated documentary of the same name showcases photos of successful women of color paired with their insights about what being dark-skinned means to them, including Lupita Nyong'o, Cicely Tyson, Brandi and Karli Harvey.
19) Passing
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Light-skinned Clare Kendry married a racist white man unaware of her African American heritage after deciding to 'pass' as a white woman. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, chose to remain within the African American community, and is both allured and repelled by Clare's racial masquerade. Clare's own interest in Irene turns into a homoerotic longing for the identity she abandoned and can never regain, and forces her...
Series
Colorless (Manga) volume 3
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A massive solar flare erased nearly all color from the surface of the Earth, and the mutated descendants of the human race exist in a state of slow decline. What little color remains now holds a strange and seductive power. Some people, like the lone-wolf professor Avidia, try and understand it. Others, including the cult-like Iodopsy Order, use it for power and control. When an Order assassin draws innocent bystanders into their rivalry, it'll take...
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