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Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Historical Fiction for Kids
Nashville Reads 2023: Celebrating Our Freedom to Read!
Historical Fiction for Kids
Nashville Reads 2023: Celebrating Our Freedom to Read!
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Young Cassie Logan endures humiliation and witnesses the horrors of a KKK cross-burning rampage before she fully understands the importance her family places on having land of their own.
3) Paperboy
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When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
5) Sugar
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In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including changes to her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
6) Yo! Yes?
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Two lonely characters, one black and one white, meet on the street and become friends.
7) Crow
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In 1898, Moses Thomas's summer vacation does not go exactly as planned as he contends with family problems and the ever-changing alliances among his friends at the same time as he is exposed to the escalating tension between the African-American and white communities of Wilmington, North Carolina.
9) Fast break
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Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
10) The other side
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Two girls, one white and one black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the fence that divides their town.
11) Feathers
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When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
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"Race Cars is a children's book about white privilege created to help facilitate tough conversations with their kids about race, privilege and oppression. It tells the story of two best friends, a white car and a black car, that have different experiences and face different rules while entering the same race. This book is important because as early as 6 months, a baby's brain can notice race-based differences, by ages 2 to 4, children can internalize...
14) School of Charm
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After her beloved father's death in 1977, eleven-year-old tomboy Chip tries to fit with her family of beauty queens, making unlikely new friends at Miss Vernie's unusual charm school in Mt. Airy, North Carolina.
15) Freedom Summer
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In 1964, Joe is pleased that a new law will allow his best friend John Henry, who is colored, to share the town pool and other public places with him, but he is dismayed to find that prejudice still exists. John Henry swims better than anyone I know. He crawls like a catfish, blows bubbles like a swamp monster, but he doesn't swim in the town pool with me. He's not allowed. Joe and John Henry are a lot alike. They both like shooting marbles, they...
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"In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed"--Provided by publisher.
18) Beauty woke
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Celebrating Myself!: Books for Kids
Children's Books About Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans, and Written by Puerto Ricans
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Children's Books About Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans, and Written by Puerto Ricans
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
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Beauty--who is of Taino Indian, African, and Boricua heritage--was taught to be strong and proud, but hatred toward people who look like her bruises her heart until her community opens her eyes to the truth.
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