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Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother and mother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family's life.

3) Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

Author

Steptoe, John

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This modern fable of pride going before a fall portrays two sisters, the spiteful Manyara and the considerate Nysha, and the young king who is searching for a wife.

4) The talking eggs: a folktale from the American South

Author

San Souci, Robert D

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A Southern folktale in which kind Blanche, following the instructions of an old witch, gains riches, while her greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly rewarded.

5) The Middle Passage

Author

Naipaul, V. S

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From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a classic of modern travel writing—a deft portrait of Trinidad and the four adjacent Caribbean societies still haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism.
“Belongs in the same category of travel writing as Lawrence’s books on Italy, Greene’s on West Africa and Pritchett’s on Spain.” —New Statesman
In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited...

6) meet danitra brown

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7) The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural

Author

McKissack, Patricia

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eBook, Kindle

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This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award Winner from beloved author Patricia McKissack offers a “stellar collection” of “ten original stories, all with a foundation in African-American history or culture” (School Library Journal).

In that special half-hour of twilight—the dark-thirty—there are stories to be told. Mesmerizing and breathtakingly original, these tales

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8) Somewhere in the darkness

Author

Myers, Walter Dean

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A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be an often painful time of discovery for them both.

9) The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963

Author

Curtis, Christopher Paul

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway Pre-Loaded Audiobook Player

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The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. A hilarious, touching, and tragic novel about civil rights and the impact of violence on one African American family. Narrated by Kenny, 9, the story tells about his middle-class black family, the Watsons of Flint, Michigan, and their trip to Birmingham,...

10) Bud, not Buddy

Author

Curtis, Christopher Paul

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Book, Sound Disc, eAudiobook

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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

11) Her stories: African American folktales

Author

Hamilton, Virginia

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12) Tar Beach

Author

Ringgold, Faith

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A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Based on the author's quilt painting of the same name.

13) Harlem: a poem

Author

Myers, Walter Dean

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A poem celebrating the people, sights, and sounds of Harlem.

14) rebels against slavery american slave revolt

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15) Minty: a story of young Harriet Tubman

Author

Schroeder, Alan

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Young Harriet Tubman, whose childhood name was Minty, dreams of escaping slavery on the Brodas plantation in the late 1820s.

16) Duke Ellington

Author

Pinkney, Andrea Davis

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A joyful biography of jazz pioneer Duke Ellington, recognized with a Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award Honor, brought to life by a bestselling husband and wife duo.

"Born in 1899, Duke Ellington was the forerunner in the evolution of jazz. By the time he was nineteen he was playing at parties, pool halls, and cabarets; and then, in 1927, he entertained at the hottest place around, The Cotton Club in Harlem. But the defining moment...

17) I thought my soul would rise and fly: the diary of Patsy, a freed girl

Author

Hansen, Joyce

Series

Dear America

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Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.

18) Goin' someplace special

Author

McKissack, Pat

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In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library.

19) The book itch: freedom, truth & Harlem's greatest bookstore

Author

Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux

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Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there.

20) Bronx Masquerade

Author

Grimes, Nikki

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Acclaimed poet, novelist, journalist, and educator Nikki Grimes was born and raised in New York City. Each of the 18 kids in Mr. Ward's inner city classroom has something important to say, but some don't even realize it. Then Mr. Ward begins to have "open mic" poetry slams once a month on Fridays. Young adult listeners will identify with the characters in Bronx Masquerade as they explore questions about life and self-expression. "As always, Grimes...