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Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
c2023.
Edition
First Spanish-language edition.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando una estudiante es asignada el trabajo de completar un árbol familiar y solo puede contar tres generaciones atrás, Abuela junta a toda la familia, y la estudiante aprende que hace 400 años, en 1619, sus antepasados fueron robados y traídos a los Estados Unidos por esclavizadores europeos. Pero antes de eso, ellos tenían un hogar, una tierra, un idioma."--Inside cover.
"A young student receives a family tree assignment in school, but she...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn’t one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she’s the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they’re long-stemmed roses, she’s a dandelion: an adorable bloom that’s actually a weed, born to float wherever the wind blows. In her bones, Ricki knows that somewhere, a different, more exciting life awaits her. When regal nonagenarian, Ms. Della,...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...
5) Rizos
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Spanish edition.
Language
Español
Description
"Marlene ama tres cosas: el arte, a su adorada t�ia Ruby y pasar el tiempo con Camilla, su mejor amiga. Pero su mam�a piensa que se deber�ia enfocar solamente en sus estudios y en madurar; y esto �ultimo implica alisarse el pelo todos los fines de semana para que se vea "presentable" y "bueno". Pero Marlene odia ir al sal�on y no entiende por qu�e nadie a su alrededor piensa que sus rizos naturales son bonitos. Despu�es de algunos desaf�ios...
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
""Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write 'em in your books and show everyone who we are." So begins DéLana R.A. Dameron's stunning novel-in-stories, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Mosby spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their...
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