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1 LAST WORD
By: nikki grimes | Published: January 2017

"One Last Word is the work of a master poet." --Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Crossover From the New York...

"One Last Word is the work of a master poet." --Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Crossover From the New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes an emotional, special new collection of poetry inspired by the Harlem Renaissance--paired with full-color, original art from today's most exciting African-American illustrators. Inspired by the writers of the Harlem Renaissance, bestselling author Nikki Grimes uses "The Golden Shovel" poetic method to create wholly original poems based on the works of master poets like Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Jean Toomer, and others who enriched history during this era. Each poem is paired with one-of-a-kind art from today's most exciting African American illustrators--including Pat Cummings, Brian Pinkney, Sean Qualls, James Ransome, Javaka Steptoe, and many more--to create an emotional and thought-provoking book with timely themes for today's readers. A foreword, an introduction to the history of the Harlem Renaissance, author's note, poet biographies, and index makes this not only a book to cherish, but a wonderful resource and reference as well. A 2017 New York Public Library Best Kids Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2017, Middle Grade A School Library Journal Best Book of 2017, Nonfiction

Theme: African Heritage, Diversity, Gr. 7-12

  • ISBN
    9781619635548
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Poetry
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AFRICVILLE
By: shauntay grant | Published: September 2018

When a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she's heard from her family come to mind. She imagines what the...

When a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she's heard from her family come to mind. She imagines what the community was once like - the brightly painted houses nestled into the hillside, the field where boys played football, the pond where all the kids went rafting, the bountiful fishing, the huge bonfires. Coming out of her reverie, she visits the present-day park and the sundial where her great- grandmother's name is carved in stone, and celebrates a summer day at the annual Africville Reunion/Festival.

Theme: Historical Fiction, African Heritage

  • ISBN
    9781773060439
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Picture Book
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ALMA 01 WIND RISES
By: timothee defombelle | Published: August 2022

FROM THE BESTSELLING WINNER OF THE PRIX SORCIÈRES From Europe to Africa to the Caribbean, this first installment in the Alma trilogy tells a...

FROM THE BESTSELLING WINNER OF THE PRIX SORCIÈRES From Europe to Africa to the Caribbean, this first installment in the Alma trilogy tells a gripping story of hope, perseverance, and love that readers will not soon forget. 1786. Isolated from the rest of the world, thirteen-year-old Alma lives with her family in a lush African valley. She spends her days exploring their blissful homeland. But everything changes when her little brother finds a secret way out of the valley. Alma sets out to find him, but she soon must face terrible dangers in a continent ravaged by the slave trade. The journey to bring her brother home becomes a harrowing adventure to save herself, her family, and the memory of her people. Meanwhile, in Lisbon, Joseph Mars, an orphan turned petty thief devises a great plan to land himself aboard a slave ship, The Sweet Amelie, on the ultimate quest--to find a pirate's treasure in the far reaches of the Caribbean. But as time passes, he learns he is not alone in his hunger for the treasure, which forces Joseph to rethink the true purpose of his presence aboard The Sweet Amelie. The destinies of a large cast of characters, including Alma and Joseph, become intertwined both on land and at sea in this unforgettable adventure of resilience and compassion as de Fombelle quietly elucidates the slave trade and the infamous Middle Passage for middle grade and YA readers.

Theme: African Heritage, Historical Fiction

  • ISBN
    9781609457877
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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AMER STORY
By: kwame alexander | Published: January 2023

Theme: African Heritage

  • ISBN
    9780316473125
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Picture Book
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ASHES
By: laurie anderson | Published: October 2016

"As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With...

"As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state"--

Theme: African Heritage

  • ISBN
    9781416961468
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Young Adult Fiction
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AWAKENING OF MALCOLM X
By: ilyasah shabazz | Published: January 2021

The Awakening of Malcolm X is a powerful narrative account of the activist's adolescent years in jail, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz along...

The Awakening of Malcolm X is a powerful narrative account of the activist's adolescent years in jail, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz along with 2019 Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe award-winning author, Tiffany D. Jackson. Here is an intimate look at Malcolm X's young adult years. While this book chronologically follows X: A Novel, it can be read as a stand-alone historical novel that invites larger discussions on black power, prison reform, and civil rights.

Theme: #BlackLivesMatter, Prejudice & Racism, Anti-Racism, African Heritage

  • ISBN
    9780374313296
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    High School - Biography
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BARACK OBAMA
By: stephe white-thomson | Published: March 2021

Theme: African Heritage, #BlackLivesMatter

  • ISBN
    9781427127891
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Biography
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BECAUSE CLAUDETTE
By: tracey baptiste | Published: January 2022

Theme: African Heritage

  • ISBN
    9780593326404
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Biography
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BECOMING - YOUNG READERS EDITION
By: michelle obama | Published: March 2021

Michelle Obama’s worldwide bestselling memoir, Becoming, now adapted for young readers. This volume for young people is an honest and fascinating...

Michelle Obama’s worldwide bestselling memoir, Becoming, now adapted for young readers. This volume for young people is an honest and fascinating account of Michelle Obama’s life led by example. She shares her views on how all young people can help themselves as well as help others, no matter their status in life. She asks readers to realize that no one is perfect, and that the process of becoming is what matters, as finding yourself is ever evolving. In telling her story with boldness, she asks young readers: Who are you, and what do you want to become?

Theme: Diversity, #BlackLivesMatter, African Heritage

  • ISBN
    9780593303740
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Biography
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BELL RANG
By: james ransome | Published: January 2019

A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of 2019 A young slave girl witnesses the heartbreak and hopefulness of her family and their plantation...

A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of 2019 A young slave girl witnesses the heartbreak and hopefulness of her family and their plantation community when her brother escapes for freedom in this brilliantly conceived picture book by Coretta Scott King Award winner James E. Ransome. Every single morning, the overseer of the plantation rings the bell. Daddy gathers wood. Mama cooks. Ben and the other slaves go out to work. Each day is the same. Full of grueling work and sweltering heat. Every day, except one, when the bell rings and Ben is nowhere to be found. Because Ben ran. Yet, despite their fear and sadness, his family remains hopeful that maybe, just maybe, he made it North. That he is free. An ode to hope and a powerful tribute to the courage of those who ran for freedom, The Bell Rang is a stunning reminder that our past can never be forgotten.

Theme: African Heritage

  • ISBN
    9781442421134
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Picture Book - Advanced
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BIG DREAMERS 03 THE INTERNATIONAL BLACK
By: akilah newton | Published: January 2023

Theme: African Heritage

  • ISBN
    9781778159312
  • Binding
    Paperback Canadian
  • Category
    Things To Do - Crafts, Cooking, Gardening, Magic, Games
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BLACK BIRDS IN THE SKY
By: brandy colbert | Published: October 2021

Theme: African Heritage

  • ISBN
    9780063056664
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Social Studies - History
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BLACK BIRDS IN THE SKY
By: brandy colbert | Published: October 2022

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts...

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. YALSA Honor Award for Excellence in Nonfiction In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass? What exactly happened? And why are the events unknown to so many of us today? These are the questions that award-winning author Brandy Colbert seeks to answer in this unflinching nonfiction account of the Tulsa Race Massacre. In examining the tension that was brought to a boil by many factors--white resentment of Black economic and political advancement, the resurgence of white supremacist groups, the tone and perspective of the media, and more--a portrait is drawn of an event singular in its devastation, but not in its kind. It is part of a legacy of white violence that can be traced from our country's earliest days through Reconstruction, the Civil Rights movement in the mid-twentieth century, and the fight for justice and accountability Black Americans still face today. The Tulsa Race Massacre has long failed to fit into the story Americans like to tell themselves about the history of their country. This book, ambitious and intimate in turn, explores the ways in which the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre is the story of America--and by showing us who we are, points to a way forward.

Theme: African Heritage

  • ISBN
    9780063056671
  • Binding
    Paperback
  • Category
    Social Studies - History
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BOX HENRY BROWN MAILS HIMSELF TO FREEDOM
By: carole weatherford | Published: April 2020

"What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me. I lost my beloved wife and our dear children. All, sold South. Neither my time nor my body...

"What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me. I lost my beloved wife and our dear children. All, sold South. Neither my time nor my body is mine. The breath of life is all I have to lose. And bondage is suffocating me." Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box, he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next -- as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope -- and help -- came in the form of the Underground Railroad. Escape! In stanzas of six lines each, each line representing one side of a box, celebrated poet Carole Boston Weatherford powerfully narrates Henry Brown's story of how he came to send himself in a box from slavery to freedom. Strikingly illustrated in rich hues and patterns by artist Michele Wood, Box is augmented with historical records and an introductory excerpt from Henry's own writing as well as a time line, notes from the author and illustrator, and a bibliography.

Theme: African Heritage, Picture Book

  • ISBN
    9780763691561
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Biography
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BRAVE BLACK 1ST
By: cheryl hudson | Published: January 2020

Theme: African Heritage

  • ISBN
    9780525645818
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Biography
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