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African Americans Fiction Girls, Black Comic books, strips, etc Girls, Black Juvenile fiction Imaginary places Juvenile fiction JUVENILE FICTION / General Magic Fiction Magic Juvenile fiction Quête Bandes dessinées Teenage girls, Black Fiction Teenage girls, Black Juvenile fictionJohnson, Dinah
Summary: A young girl living on the coast of South Carolina dreams of her distant relatives on the shores of Africa and beyond. Indigo Dreaming is a poetic meditation between two young girls--on different sides of the sea--who wonder about how they are intricately linked by culture, even though they are separated by location. The girls' reflections come together, creating a vision of home, as well as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOHTaylor, Courtney Faye
Summary: ". . .Taylor delivers a layered elegy for Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shopkeeper in 1992 during an uprising in response to the police beating of Rodney King. Harlins's death is symbolic for all murders of Black people, but Taylor carefully examines the event's particulars. Some of the collection's multimedia elements include photographs taken at the site of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 TAYGaladima, Issaka
Summary: "Cybernetic desperadoes. Corporate thieves. Giant robots. Can Cast survive long enough to succeed in her goal to become a Smith? The country's most dangerous gang, The Demon Bandits, are on the hunt to find Ms. Clock. Cast has officially become Ms. Clock's Striker, and the two find themselves investigating a haunted cave in the farmlands. Will they discover what lies deep underground? Will Cast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockport Publishers, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 CLODuffy, Damian
Summary: In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher's daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger by the walls of her gated community. However, in a night of fire and death, what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny . . . and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2020
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUTCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DUFMcLeod, Ella
Summary: "You're fifteen. You spend your time at school and at Val's hair salon with Baker, Val's son, who has eyes that are like falling off a cliff into space. The salon is a space of safety, but also of possibility and dreams. When you dream, you visit an enchanted forest full of friends and wonder. You dream of witches and magic, of hair so rich and alive that it grow upwards and outwards into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yellow Jacket 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCLLapite, Shade
Summary: In this thrilling Afro-fantasy, the first set in the lush, opulent kingdom of Galla, a girl raised in secret must leave her sheltered rural home for the subtle dangers of the royal court, where she becomes caught up in deadly power struggles and romantic intrigue. Kalothia has grown up in the shadows of her kingdom, hidden away in the forested East after her parents were outed as enemies of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAPDue, Tananarive
Summary: Aisha, a young black girl, has lost her parents to a car crash. She moves in with her grandmother, but the old woman is dying. The grandmother summons a spirit that has protected their family and asks it to watch over Aisha. At first, it seems as though the spirit, the Keeper, is doing what the grandmother asked. But soon it begins stealing life from others, becoming an uncontrollable monster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Megascope 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 DUEMarie, Aurielle
Summary: "Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie's stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of Black gxrlhood. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 MARKamanda, Ali
Summary: Illustrations and rhyming text encourage Black girls to learn about the accomplishments of famous women in Black history and then forge their own paths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks eXplore 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KAMGarrett, RaeChell
Summary: "When the school of her dreams puts on her on the wait list, Autumn enlists the help of a former crush turned rival to form a promposal service in hopes of impressing the admissions committee"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poppy, Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: "A young girl watches her mommy proudly take to the streets to march for what she believes in. Mommy marches through the sunshine, through the rain and through the deepest snow, on her own or hand-in-hand with others, to give voice to causes that need to be heard. Inspired to join the next generation of young activists, her daughter dreams of marching alongside her" -- Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana Publishing, Ltd. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAWAdeyemi, Tomi
Summary: When Zélie seized the royal palace that fateful night, she thought her battles had come to an end. The monarchy had finally fallen. The maji had risen again. Zélie never expected to find herself locked in a cage and trapped on a foreign ship. Now warriors with iron skulls traffic her and her people across the seas, far from their homeland. Then everything changes when Zélie meets King Baldyr,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gale, a Cengage company 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ADEElle, J.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Quell is reluctantly inducted into a magical debutante society of social elites where she must bind with her forbidden magic while evading the assassin who has been tasked with hunting her kind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELLGaladima, Issaka
Summary: "Can Cast become a new member of the smiths? Can she prove that technology is best used to help society rather than to destroy it. The Demon Bandits have infiltrated Cast's train ride. Luckily for Cast, a simple mistake unveils something unexpected about the evil gang. Despite doubts of Ms. Clock's true intentions, Cast attempts to save the passangers. Will her plan succeed?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockport Publishers, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 CLOJones, Frederick L.
Summary: "Cast dreams of being a smith, and though she's rather handy with her tools, no one in her small town ever realizes their dreams. Cast continues her training and looks to solve her family's problems. Cast's goal to help those with disabilities fuels her determination to become a SMITH. She seeks out the help of Ms. Philomena Clock to win the SMITH competition and create a prosthetic hand with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockport Publishers, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 CLOMeade, Lily
Summary: "Sutton going missing is the worst thing to happen to Casey, to their family. She's trying to help find her sister, but Casey is furious. She knows Sutton is manipulative, meanwhile everyone paints a picture of her perfection. People don't look for missing Black girls--or half-Black girls--without believing there is an angel to be saved. When Sutton reappears, Casey knows she should be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MEAMagruder, Nilah
Summary: "Equipped with a camera and determination, an adventurous little girl tries to track down an elusive red fox, which proves more difficult than she thought"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAGMcKenzie, K. M.
Summary: "At 17, Kadsa is tired of traveling with her grandpa in search of their lost, mystical home world. She yearns for college, friends, and a stable home. Discovering lies about her identity through online research, she decides to break free from her grandpa and seek the truth. Just as she embraces her newfound autonomy, her grandfather is kidnapped. On a perilous mission to save him, Kadsa enters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iskanchi Press
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MCKNyoko, Mel
Summary: A Black mother replaces common misconceptions with empowering statements and lets her daughter know there are no limits to what she can achieve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE NYOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NYOEmrich, Alisha
Summary: Ramona Lambert's best friend has moved away; her parents don't quite understand her love of cosplay; and she is pretty sure her crush has no idea she exists. Her cosplay character, Rel, gives her the confidence and freedom she lacks in real life. When she decides to strike up an email conversation with her crush, Caleb Wolfe, from her cosplay account in the hopes getting to know him, the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Teens, Hachette Book Group 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EMRMiller, Sharee
Summary: Eager to make a good first impression at her new middle school, thirteen-year-old Charlie does her best to fit in until she meets a group of diverse Black girls who show her the importance of authenticity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: "Set in New York City in the '90s, Angela Shanté's poems and stories paint a mosaic of childhood that is shaped by the past and reverberates into the present. As Shanté navigates the city through memory, this timeless book illuminates the places where Black girls are nurtured or boxed in, through stories and poems about expectations, exploitation, love, loss, and self-realization. Her poems...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Company 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 818 SHAAdeyemi, Tomi
Summary: When Zélie is captured and taken away from her homeland, she must face her captor, King Baldyr, and find allies to stop the impending catastrophe threatening her people at the hands of the Skulls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ADECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ADECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ADEElle, J.
Summary: Told in multiple points of view, Quell confronts hidden secrets as she tries to find her mother, while assassin Jordon faces the dilemma of protecting the source of all magic by potentially destroying the girl he once loved, as their conflicting loyalties threaten the future of magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2024