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Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Letter by letter, The ABCs of Black History celebrates a story that spans continents and centuries, triumph and heartbreak, creativity and joy. It's a story of big ideas--P is for Power, S is for Science and Soul. Of significant moments--G is for Great Migration. Of iconic figures--H is for Zora Neale Hurston, X is for Malcom X. It's an ABC book like no other, and a story of hope and love. In addition to rhyming text, the book includes back matter...
Author
Language
English
Description
In Madness, award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day. She blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-worth of investigative research and archival documents. Madness chronicles the stories of Black families whose mental health suffered...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Yara is placed on probation at work for fighting with a racist coworker, her Palestinian mother claims the provocation and all that’s come after were the result of a family curse. While Yara doesn’t believe in old superstitions, she finds herself unpacking her strict, often volatile childhood growing up in Brooklyn, looking for clues as to why she feels so unfulfilled in a life her mother could only dream of.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"To save the Clarktown Community Center, which houses her parents' Chinese school, Lily and her fellow students must master a traditional Chinese dance in time for the center's first showcase and receive some unexpected help from her rival, Max Zhang"--
Author
Series
Ryan Hart novels volume 4
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
During Black History Month, Ryan learns more about her ancestors and local Black pioneers, and their hopes for her generation.
Author
Series
Dear committee members volume 3
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Chaperoning Payne University’s annual “Experience: Abroad,” beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger strives to navigate safe passage for 11 undergrads, including a claustrophobe, a pair of unreconciled lovers and a young woman who has never been away from her cat before, through a sea of personal, institutional and international troubles.
9) Promise boys
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
J.B., Ramón, and Trey, students of the Urban Promise Prep School, must follow the school's strict rules, but when their principal is murdered, the three boys must band together to track down the real killer before they are arersted.
10) Shortcomings
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Follows Ben, a struggling Bay Area filmmaker. When he's not on his day job managing an art house movie theater, Ben spends his time obsessing over unavailable blonde women, watching DVDs and eating in diners with his best friend Alice, a queer grad student. When Ben's girlfriend Miko moves to New York, Ben is left to his own devices and begins to explore what he thinks he might want.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It's bad enough that Imani had a slow start to her women's history research project. But when disaster strikes the night before it's due, she's really in trouble. Will Imani be able to pick up the pieces in time to give her report?
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents' ideals, learning to switch between her family's Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and trying to understand the tension between holding onto cultural values and trying to be an all-American kid. Malaka Gharib's triumphant graphic memoir brings to life her teenage antics and illuminates...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this thought-provoking personal manifesto on memory, family and history, the author, heartsick from constant assaults on Black life, finds herself soul-searching and digging into the historical archive to understand who we are as a nation and what we might hope to mean to one another.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Hunkering down with her sister in her fancy house, along with her brother-in-law’s family, as Hurricane Harvey bears down on Houston, single mom Jia Shah and her 12-year-old son, Ishaan, finds tensions escalating along with the storm, resulting in murder.
Author
Series
Party diaries volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At her mother's request Priya is planning a surprise anniversary party for her father, but she is finding it hard to keep it a secret from her inquisitive dad.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Attending a new K-pop workshop hoping to reconnect with her ex-BFF and groupmate, 18-year-old former popstar Sunny Lee instead finds herself haunted by ghostly visions while someone inflicts bodily harm on her competitors, forcing her to confront the demons of her past to survive.
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, sharing his personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students, offers a spirited response to racist ideas about Latino people, investigating topics that include the U.S.-Mexico border wall, urban segregation and gangs.
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