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Christie, R. Gregory

Summary: In this update of the classic fable, City Mouse and his cousin, Country Mouse, exchange visits and, although they find many things to like in each other's homes, they quickly learn that each prefers his own.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CHR

Bolden, Tonya

Summary: "Before there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The godmother of rock & roll started as a little girl from Arkansas with music in her air, in her hair, in her bones, wiggling her toes. With a big guitar in hand and a big voice in her soul, she grew into a rock & roll trailblazer in a time when women were rarely seen rocking out."--Front...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THA

Rockwell, Anne F.

Summary: A biographical look at the former slave who gained renown as an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2000

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TRU

Corey, Shana

Summary: "Acclaimed author Shana Corey and New York Times Best Illustrated artist R. Gregory Christie deliver a fresh look at Kennedy, underscoring the greatness and fallibility of our leaders and how each one of us, no matter who we are, have the power to make adifference. With quotes from JFK's speeches, detailed back matter, and a thought- provoking author's note, this biography offers a sensitive...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KEN

Duncan, Alice Faye

Summary: Most people know Coretta Scott King as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader. Coretta's march on freedom road made her a great leader, too. Alice Faye Duncan blends poetry and prose to follow Coretta from a challenging childhood in segregated Alabama, to music training in Boston, to her brave years as a wife, mother, and activist fighting for equal rights and her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek Books 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB KING DUN

Duncan, Alice Faye

Summary: Recounts the 1968 sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his final speech to strikers the night before his assassination, and details the perseverance of strikers before and after his death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2018

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Powell, Patricia Hruby

Summary: "A picture book about the life of civil rights activist Ella Baker"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BAK

Shepard, Ray Anthony

Summary: Meticulously researched and drawn from numerous primary sources, this biography-in-verse tells the story of racism in the U.S. through six important Black Americans from different eras who struggled for justice, chronicling how much - and how little - racism has changed since our country's founding.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, and imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 SHE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 305.8009 SHE

Weatherford, Carole Boston

Summary: A poetic tribute to a lesser-known part of African-American history describes how after working relentlessly for more than six days, slaves in nineteenth-century New Orleans were permitted to congregate in Congo Square.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976 WEA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WEA

Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux.

Summary: Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MIC

Parsons, Karyn

Summary: "The story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to earn her pilot's license"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 COL

Rockliff, Mara

Summary: "A picture book biography about Georgia Gilmore, the woman whose cooking helped feed and fund the Montgomery bus boycott of 1956"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GIL

Bolden, Tonya.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALI

Frame, Jeron Ashford.

Summary: A young boy ponders a variety of emotions and how different members of his family experience them, from his own blues to his father's grays and his grandmother's yellows.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tricycle Press 2003

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC Frame

Power, Will

Summary: Motivated by his love for his Nana, who has to change her eating habits for her health, a lively young boy embarks on a neighborhood adventure to discover tasty vegan soul food.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POW

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