Summary: Black girls, including gender non-conforming individuals, star in this collection of sixteen stories of fantasy, science fiction, and magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PHOMcBrier, Page.
Summary: A young girl's dream of attending school in her small Ugandan village is fulfilled after her family is given an income-producing goat. Based on a true story about the work of Project Heifer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCBCurtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CURVerde, Susan
Summary: With its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie's kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce in her small African village. And try as she might, Gie Gie cannot bring the water closer; she cannot make it run clearer. Every morning, she rises before the sun to make the long journey to the well. Instead of a crown, she wears a heavy pot on her head to collect the water....
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VERSambury, Liselle
Summary: After failing to come into her powers, sixteen-year-old Voya--a Black witch living in near-future Toronto--is forced to choose between losing her family's magic forever, a heritage steeped in centuries of blood and survival, or murdering her first love, a boy who is supposedly her genetic match.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAMCurtis, Christopher Paul.
Summary: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CURMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: Staying with Aunty Bee at a safari camp in the Botswana countryside where a film crew is making a movie about a lion, nine-year-old Precious Ramotswe and her resourceful new friend Khumo use their detective skills to find the movie star lion when he goes missing.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MCCTaylor, Theodore
Summary: When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Yearling Books 2002
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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ANDCurtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CURAdichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Summary: Chino loves the scarf her mother ties around her hair at night, and takes it on endless adventures during the day as a reminder of the ones she loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GRASummary: "Glory Edim launches her Well-Read Black Girl Library with this vital anthology celebrating stories from such luminaries as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Since founding the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club in 2015, Glory Edim's profile has skyrocketed. From her roots in a Brooklyn-based community to a massive online following, she has been heralded as the literary tastemaker for a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONTaylor, Theodore
Summary: When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: delacorte Press 1987
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Francis-Sharma, Lauren
Summary: "In 1796 Trinidad, young Rosa Rendaon quietly but purposefully rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house, for it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she, alone, views as her birthright. But when her homeland changes from Spanish to British rule, it becomes increasingly unclear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRALansens, Lori.
Summary: When she volunteers to take in five-year-old Sharla Cody for the summer, eighty-year-old Addy Shadd forms a powerful bond with Sharla that prompts her to recollect her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: To thank Miss Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, three children sell decorated eggs to buy her a beautiful Easter hat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1992
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Summary: "Queer black girls team up to overthrow the patriarchy in the former kingdom of Cinderella"-- Two hundred years after Cinderella found her prince, the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl's display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again. Sophia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction BayronPinkney, Andrea Davis
Summary: "After her tribal village is attacked by militants, Amira, a young Sudanese girl, must flee to safety at a refugee camp, where she finds hope and the chance to pursue an education in the form of a single red pencil and the friendship and encouragement ofa wise elder"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PINFarmer, Nancy.
Summary: In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FARPark, Linda Sue.
Summary: When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of a safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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Summary: In a village on the African plains, a little girl stalls bedtime by saying good night to various animals and objects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Toddler IsadoraOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: Now stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny Nwazue, along with her friends from the the Leopard Society, travel through worlds, both visible and invisible, to the mysterious town of Osisi, where they fight in a climactic battle to save humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OKONyong'o, Lupita
Summary: When five-year-old Sulwe's classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but her encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is beauty in every shade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NYOBildner, Phil.
Summary: Each time Hector watches white boys playing soccer in Johannesburg, South Africa, he dreams of playing on a real pitch one day and after the fall of apartheid, when he sees the 1996 African Cup of Nations team, he knows that his dream can come true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014