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MSU Children's & YA Literature CollectionOso, Maisha
Summary: "Before the Ships is a powerful and poetic celebration of the early roots of Black history."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OSOReynolds, Jason
Summary: A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REYMartinez-Neal, Juana
Summary: Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help, in a lushly illustrated story that is complemented by back matter about the Asháninka community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARLong, Michael G.
Summary: "This powerful and triumphant picture book biography tells the story of Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civils rights leader, who, with the support of Dr. King and future congressman John Lewis, led 250,000 people to the doorstep of the U.S. government demanding change"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSPinkney, Andrea Davis
Summary: "When young Tybre Faw discovers Congressman John Lewis and his heroic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the fight for the right to vote -- Tybre is determined to meet him. Tybre's two grandmothers take him on the seven-hour drive to Selma, Alabama, where Lewis invites Tybre to join him in the annual memorial walk across the Bridge. And so begins a most amazing friendship! In rich, poetic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022