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2) A mercy
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina,...
3) Julius
Author
Language
English
Description
Maya's grandfather brings her a pig from Alaska, and the two of them learn about fun and sharing together.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When she is chosen to compete in the local spelling bee, Stacey learns that, win or lose, her words are powerful, and sometimes perseverance is the most important word of all, in this debut picture book from the iconic voting rights advocate.
Author
Series
Kids like mine volume 2
Publisher
Kids Like Mine
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Skin Like Mine is a fun, easy-to-read for beginners as well as advanced readers. An entertaining yet creative way to address and celebrate diversity among young children. Guaranteed to make you smile and a bit hungry.
Author
Publisher
Vikki Young
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This book is about a little girl of color, but there's much more to her! She's not a girl of color only in the way one might think. She's a little girl in love with colors and finds joy in all the colors of the world, whether they be flowers, patterns, or people. She simply loves colors! The illustrations are bright and eye-catching"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After Box delivers a refrigerator, Grace and Box become friends, camping together, going to space, and exploring the depths of the sea, among other adventures. After a few days of playing together, Grace notices that Box is getting some rips and crumples, which she's determined to fix, so they can continue their fun.
Author
Series
Frankie and friends volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In a charming new chapter-book series by a social-change advocate, young Frankie emulates her journalist mama by reporting on household news with the help of her sister and an unlikely news crew.
11) Prinsetta
Author
Publisher
AuthorHouse
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A young African American girl finds it difficult to make friends on the playground but learns to keep her head held high.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Claire can't wait to get out on the ice and skate, skate, skate! She's going to jump, leap, and twirl! Just you wait--pretty soon she'll be on TV and dazzling audiences everywhere. But when Claire and her mom arrive at the Ice Center for Claire's very first skating lesson, it's not everything Claire was dreaming it would be...In this humorous tale of expectation meets reality, Claire discovers beautiful performances require lots of skill, and it's...
13) Bloom
Author
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
From the author of Curls and Glow comes a joyfully poetic board book that delivers an ode to African American girls as naturally beautiful in our human garden. Introduce young readers to the idea of self-love in a simple, playful rhythm with this luminous story where each little girl is as unique and beautiful as a blossoming flower.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2022
Language
English
Description
Keyana's latest big idea is to have backyard movie soiree for all her relatives! When her twin cousins' fighting knocks over the projector movie night seems heading for disaster-- until Keyana comes up with an even better idea.
15) Cute toot
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows attics are the best place to play hide and seek on a rainy day. That is, unless your stomach is rumbling with a bubbly gas that you absolutely cannot keep in. When Baby sister lets one sneaky fart slip out, she betrays her hiding spot and begins the most phenomenal fart fest this attic has ever seen...
16) Speculation
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1962, ten-year-old Winna Cole discovers a pair of magical spectacles that reveal both the friendly ghosts of her African American ancestors and a dangerous family curse.
17) Amara's farm
Author
Series
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
There are many plants on Amara's farm. Today is the day she looks for her pumpkins.
18) I am mighty!
Author
Series
Princess Truly volume 6
Publisher
Acorn/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text, Princess Truly uses her strength and her magical curls to help her friends, rescue her dog from a tire swing, and win a prize at the carnival.
19) Mary can!
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The multi-awarding-winning singer, artist, actress, and icon presents this entertaining and empowering story in which young Mary, told there are many things she cannot do, isn't about to let anyone tell her she cannot sing.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions"--
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