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Durkin, Hannah

Summary: "Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors-the last documented survivors of any slave ship-whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 DUR

Baptiste, Tracey

Summary: "Introduces readers to two brave Black women who stood up against segregation, setting in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott and showing the nation how positive change can start with a single defiant act"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BAP

McDonough, Yona Zeldis.

Summary: In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2010

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET PARKS

Barton, Chris

Summary: A cool idea with a big splash. You know the Super Soaker. It’s one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for refrigerators and air conditioners, impressive inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the iconic toy. A love for rockets, robots, inventions, and a mind for creativity began early in Lonnie...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BAR

Barton, Chris.

Summary: Chronicles the life and achievements of the NASA engineer and inventor, from his childhood to his accidental invention of the Super Soaker water gun.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORAGNE WHO

Haley, Alex.

Summary: The fictionalized saga of Haley's father's family, sequel to Roots.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1993

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAL

Patrick, Denise Lewis

Summary: The A Girl Named series tells the stories of how ordinary American girls grew up to be extraordinary American women. Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, but how did she come to be so brave?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Summary: Celebrate African American history with this historic collection of stories. Collection includes: Rosa ; Henry's freedom box ; Lincoln and Douglass ; and, Ellington was not a street. Bonus interview with Nikki Giovanni. Bonus interview with Ellen Levine.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV STO

Mara, Wil.

Summary: Introduces the children to Rosa Parks who is a true American hero.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Presents the life of Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus for a white man triggered the civil rights movement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2007

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB PARKS KEL

Hoose, Phillip M.

Summary: "Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Melanie Kroupa Books 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB COLVIN HOO

Meltzer, Brad.

Summary: Recounts Rosa Parks' daring effort to stand up for herself and other African Americans by helping to end segregation on public transportation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio I Am Parks

Parks, Rosa

Summary: The African American woman whose acts of civil disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama, explains what she did and why

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE PAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR RED PAR

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Summary: "A biography of Claudette Colvin in the She Persisted series"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Brown, Willie Mae

Summary: "As the civil rights movement and the fight for voter rights unfold in Selma, Alabama, many things happen inside and outside the Brown family's home that do not have anything to do with the landmark 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Yet the famous outrages which unfold on that span form an inescapable backdrop in this collection of stories. In one, Willie Mae takes it upon herself to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Hawkins, Martha

Summary: "This is the heartbreaking and uplifting tale of one woman who just wouldn't give up"--Cover, p. 4.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 976.1 HAW

Rice, Condoleezza

Summary: This is the story of Condoleezza Rice-- her early years growing up in the hostile environment of Birmingham, Alabama; her rise in the ranks at Stanford University to become the university's second-in-command and an expert in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs; and finally, in 2000, her appointment as the first Black woman to serve as Secretary of State.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RICE, CONDOLEEZZA RIC

Baptiste, Tracey

Summary: "A picture book biography about Claudette Colvin, the teen whose activism launched the Montgomery bus boycott, and a celebration of collective action"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Jazynka, Kitson.

Summary: "Find out about the life of Rosa Parks and how her actions in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 helped end racial segregation in America. This book follows the same standards as other National Geographic Readers with the same careful text, brilliant photographs, and fun approach that kids love. The life story of Rosa Parks has enduring lessons to teach us and this biography should appeal to kids,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Children's Books 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Parks, Rosa

Summary: When Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus in 1955, she sparked the Civil Rights Movement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 1992

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PAR

Giovanni, Nikki.

Summary: An illustrated description of Rosa Parks' historic refusal to give up her seat on a bus that led to a boycott that lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama. One track of sound disc has page-turn signals.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Taylor-Butler, Christine

Summary: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on a bus so a white man could sit. Almost overnight, she became an icon of the rapidly growing civil rights movement. Readers will find out how Parks continued to fight for African American civil rights after her famous arrest. They will also learn more about the racism and segregation that Parks and other African...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Ringgold, Faith.

Summary: A biography of the African American woman and civil rights worker whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young People 1999

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Parks, Rosa

Summary: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was not trying to start a movement. She was simply tired of social injustice and did not think a woman should be forced to stand so that a man could sit down. Yet her simple act of courage set in motion a chain of events that changed forever the landscape of American race relations. Now, forty...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan Pub. House 1994

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.092 PAR

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