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82) Fences: a play
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
During the 1950s Troy Maxson struggles against racism and tries to preserve his feelings of pride in himself.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
85) Freedom's school
Author
Publisher
Disney-Jump at the Sun Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hungry for learning, Lizzie and her brother Paul attend a new school built for freed slaves.
Author
Series
Reluctant royals volume 1
Language
English
Description
Mistaken by his betrothed as a pauper instead of a prince, Prince Thabiso, the sole heir to the throne of Thesolo, decides to keep his real identity a secret as he experiences life and love with Naledi Smith.
Language
English
Description
2019 marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha Blain. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines -- historians and artists, journalists and novelists--each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period to create a dynamic multivoiced single-volume history of black people in America....
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From "one of the greatest writers of our time" (Toni Morrison)—the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God—a collection of remarkable stories, including eight "lost" Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time.
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91) Sojourner Truth
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
92) Clean getaway
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
William Lamar, known as "Scoob," goes on a road trip thorugh the South with his grandmother in her RV, visiting some of the major sites in the Civil Rights movement and learning about how people like him have been treated.
Author
Series
Blessings volume 2
Publisher
Avon A
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"On the heels of Bring on the Blessings, bestselling author Beverly Jenkins gives readers a second helping of the beautiful Kansas town of Henry Adams, and the residents who make it so unique"--Provided by publisher.
95) These hands
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An African American man tells his grandson about a time when, despite all the wonderful things his hands could do, they could not touch bread at the Wonder Bread factory. Based on stories of bakery union workers; includes historical note.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The story of a runaway slave who, in 1850, flees the South Carolina plantation on which he was born, taking with him only a few coins, a knife, and the clothes on his back, and relying on the north star to guide him to safety.
97) Reckless
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Farrah, treated badly by her beau Khalil, falls for his friend Mills, but Mills won't betray his own girlfriend, Jade, even though she is cheating on him with an NBA superstar.
Author
Publisher
Miramax Books/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In a revealing memoir, the actress and former wife of boxer Mike Tyson describes the legacy of domestic violence that has haunted her family for generations, efforts to rebuild her career, motherhood, faith, and coming to terms with her personal choices.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Without their crucial contributions to the war effort, the United States could not have won the war. And yet the stories of these Black veterans have long been ignored,...
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