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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When the electricity goes out, twelve-year-old Eddie and his friends set out to investigate what is going on when they make the startling discovery that they are the only ones left in their neighborhood--and perhaps the only people left anywhere." --
Author
Language
English
Description
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
6) Hurry up!
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A young boy has a busy day.
Author
Language
English
Description
A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world."--
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Reluctant to let the surf crash over him, Joe runs down the beach and has an adventure with an old boat. With dancing sunlit watercolor pictures and joyful words, Daly expresses the physicalness of a small child's fun in the sand and waves. There's a very simple story: after playing on the beach, Joe wanders away and gets lost behind a sand dune. A friendly blond lifeguard, "as cool as a coke," finds Joe and carries the kid piggyback to smiling Mom...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Dream Variation," one of Langston Hughes's most celebrated poems, about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice, is now a picture book stunningly illustrated by Daniel Miyares...An African-American boy faces the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice, but he dreams of a different life--one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his arms wide in the face of the sun"--
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The New York Times best-selling and award-winning duo present this celebration of Black and Brown babies and the happiness, gentle moments and endless love shared between children and their caregivers.
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The first African men, women, and children in colonial America did not arrive with dreams of freedom or hopes of a new, better life. They arrived after a torturous 90-day journey called the Middle Passage. And they arrived as slaves. Since that time, African-Americans have suffered, triumphed, despaired, and dreamed. Through U.S. history, nowhere are the hopes and fears of the black experience expressed more convincingly than on the faces of black...
18) Read and rise
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Photographs and poetic text celebrate reading as a means of encouraging African American children to pursue their dreams.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Your story begins in Africa. Your African ancestors defied the odds and survived 400 years of slavery in America and passed down an extraordinary legacy to you. Beginning in Africa before 1619, Your Legacy presents an unprecedentedly accessible, empowering, and proud introduction to African American history for children. While your ancestors' freedom was taken from them, their spirit was not; this book celebrates their accomplishments, acknowledges...