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2961) Peace, Locomotion
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
Author
Series
Hood rat novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Tionna learned from her on-and-off addicted mother how to live by her wits. Now, forced to start over in the same neighborhood she swore she'd never go back to, with her on-again/off-again boyfriend and father of her two sons in jail and everything seized by the government, she rediscovers her old life and wonders if she's cut out to ba a prisoner's wife.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
2006]
Language
English
Description
Few sources before have dealt with the archaeology of African American settlements outside the Atlantic seaboard and the southern states. This book describes in detail the archaeological investigations conducted at the town site of Buxton, Iowa, a coal mining community inhabited by a significantly large population of blacks between 1900 and 1925. David Gradwohl and Nancy Osborn present the archaeology of Buxton from the ground up
2965) Tender beasts
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sunny Behre has four siblings, but only one is a murderer. With the death of Sunny's mother, matriarch of the wealthy Behre family, Sunny's once picture-perfect life is thrown into turmoil. Her mother had groomed her to be the family's next leader, so Sunny is confused when the only instructions her mother leaves is a mysterious note: 'Take care of Dom.' The problem is, her youngest brother, Dom, has always been a near-stranger to Sunny...and seemingly...
Author
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In Betty Reid Soskin's 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national epidemic, blackface minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, white women had only just won the right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved until her mid-20s,...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Seven years ago, Richard Frishman embarked on a 25,000-mile journey in his car that took him from his home state of Washington to Maine, from Mississippi to Michigan. The photographs he took along the way--in major cities, backwater towns and in the countryside--capture structures and landscapes that speak to America's history of racial oppression. Frishman's goal in documenting these places and sites was to heighten awareness, motivate action and...
Author
Publisher
Black Privilege Publishing/Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a "lively, engaging, and often wise" (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family ofBlack country music. Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history: she is the first Black woman to cowrite...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Looks at the life of the artist Benny Andrews illustrated with his original paintings, from his childhood and youth in rural Georgia, through his studies in Chicago and his activism and artistic success in New York City.
2972) Rock star
Author
Series
Jada Jones volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Jada's best friend moved away but a class project on rocks and minerals, her favorite topic, could mean new friends. For Jada, rocks are easier to find than friends. Or are they?
2974) Girls from da hood 15
Series
Girls from da hood volume 15
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Lust: "Amira James has always had everything she ever the home, the clothes, and the rich daddy. However, there was a fire deep inside of her that wanted more and more . . . and more. So when she stumbles across the entrance of an underground sex club, she welcomes the new kind of high. Secretly, out of the gaze of the watchful eye of her prominent lawyer father, Amira slips deeper and deeper into this new and exciting life, taking on the name Lust...
2975) The dark place
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Every secret comes to haunt you in this YA horror that combines the swoony romance and emotional resonance of John Green with the surrealist horror imagery and razor-sharp wit of Jordan Peele. Seventeen-year-old Hylee Williams didn’t ask to disappear. But she did disappear, and not only that, but when she vanished from our world, she materialized in a dark, twisted version of the night that changed her life forever: the night her older brother...
Author
Publisher
Bookpress Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Will (Keeps) Holmes has dreamed of a career in music. Originally inspired and influence by Michael Jackson, Keeps felt the call to perform, to sing and to dance, and he knew there was magic in his voice. But growing up on the South Side of Chicago as gangs were a beginning to cast a long shadow over the city, the far more pressing need to appear strong and defend the people he loved put a stranglehold on his aspirations. Caught up in inescapable...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A pioneering scholar offers this new account of what systemic racism actually is, how it works and how we can fight back, revealing how hard-to-see systemic connections function to disproportionately contain, exploit and punish Black people and showing us how to create a more just America for us all.
2979) Don't let them bury my story: The oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in her own words
Author
Publisher
Mocha Media Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Viola Ford Fletcher's memoir Don't Let Them Bury My Story vividly recounts the lasting impact of the Tulsa Massacre on her life. As the oldest survivor and last living witness of the tragic events that unfolded in 1921, she shares her testimony with poignant clarity. From the terror of her childhood as a seven-year-old fleeing the burning streets of Greenwood to her current role as a 109-year-old family matriarch seeking justice for the affected families,...
2980) Best friends
Author
Publisher
Paw Prints Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When she and her family find a cat and, after no luck finding its owner, decide to keep her, Haitian American kindergartener Liline must come up with the perfect name.
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