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Summary: Black girls, including gender non-conforming individuals, star in this collection of sixteen stories of fantasy, science fiction, and magic.
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Call #: YA F PHOENIX
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: Jefferson Pierce, respected educator and father of two, is also Black Lightning, super-powered protector of Freeland. And he doesn't fight alone. He is joined by his super-powered daughters, Anissa,...
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Call #: DVD TV BLACK S3
Location: DVDs TV Series
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(34)
Summary: Offering diverse perspectives on the black experience, this anthology of short fiction spotlights works by influential African-American authors. Nearly thirty outstanding stories include tales by W....
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Call #: F STORIES
Location: Adult Fiction
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Kwame Alexander
Series:
Crossover (Kwame Alexander)
(44,066)
Summary: Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
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Call #: YA F ALEXANDER
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Kwame Alexander
(1,513)
Summary: Thirteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
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Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL ALE
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 0 of 1
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Kwame Alexander
Series:
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) - #0.5
(10,107)
Summary: In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
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Call #: YA F ALEXANDER
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Kwame Alexander
(4,680)
Summary: "When America is not so beautiful, or right, or just, it can be hard to know what to do. Best friends Walt and Noah decide to use their voices to grow more good in the world, but first they've got to...
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Kwame Alexander
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Summary: "When America is not so beautiful, or right, or just, it can be hard to know what to do. Best friends Walt and Noah decide to use their voices to grow more good in the world, but first they've got to...
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Call #: YA F ALEXANDER
Location: YA Fiction
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Kwame Alexander
(4,680)
Summary: "When America is not so beautiful, or right, or just, it can be hard to know what to do. Best friends Walt and Noah decide to use their voices to grow more good in the world, but first they've got to...
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Kwame Alexander
(4,715)
Summary: "When America is not so beautiful, or right, or just, it can be hard to know what to do. Best friends Walt and Noah decide to use their voices to grow more good in the world, but first they've got to...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: YA CD BOOK F ALEXANDER
Location: YA CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
L. J. Alonge
Series:
Blacktop Books - #1
(114)
Summary: As a nerdy Oakland teenager tries to figure out his life, he and his best friend put together a basketball team to play the invincible crew from Ghosttown.
BOOK
Call #: YA F ALONGE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Laurie Halse Anderson
Series:
Seeds Of America Series
(13,937)
Summary: Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
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Call #: YA F ANDERSON
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Laurie Halse Anderson
Series:
Seeds Of America Trilogy - #3
(4,969)
Summary: "As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely...
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Call #: YA F ANDERSON
Location: YA Fiction
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M. T Anderson
(14,622)
Summary: Octavian Nothing is raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers. He and his mother are the only people in their household assigned names. Young Octavian begins to question the...
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M. T Anderson
(3,869)
Summary: Such is our task, and such lies before us all: Liberty or Death. In the summer of 1775, fleeing from a death sentence, Octavian and his tutor, Dr. Trefusis,...
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by
Katherine Applegate
Series:
Everworld Series
(9,958)
Summary: Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
BOOK
Call #: YA F APPLEGATE
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ashley Antoinette
Series:
Butterfly Novels - #2
(915)
Summary: After thinking that her lover, Messiah Williams, is dead, Morgan Atkins falls in love with his best friend, but she needs to make important decisions about her life when she discovers that Messiah is very much alive.
BOOK
Call #: F ANTOINETTE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Ashley Antoinette
Series:
Butterfly Novels - #3
(675)
Summary: The hardest thing Morgan Atkins has ever done is let go of love. After losing Messiah, she never thought she'd find someone who understood her again. Until she reunited with Ahmeek Harris and their...
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Call #: F ANTOINETTE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Mateo Askaripour
(5,340)
Summary: Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's...
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BOOK
Call #: F ASKARIPOUR
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Dianna Hutts Aston
(686)
Summary: On her family's farm in the town of Star, eight-year-old Mae eagerly follows the progress of the 1969 Apollo 11 flight and moon landing and dreams that she might one day be an astronaut, too.
BOOK
Call #: E ASTON
Location: Picture Books
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Afia Atakora
(7,951)
Summary: A sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle,...
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Call #: F ATAKORA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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James Baldwin
(54,437)
Summary: The story of John, a fourteen-year-old boy whose stepfather is a Pentecostal minister in Harlem in 1935, as he struggles to discover his own identity.
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Call #: F BALDWIN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Kelly J. Baptist
(417)
Summary: Isaiah is now the big man of the house. But it's a lot harder than his dad made it look. His little sister, Charlie, asks too many questions, and Mama's gone totally silent. Good thing Isaiah can...
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BOOK
Call #: J F BAPTIST
Location: New Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Derrick D. Barnes
(3,758)
Summary: The barbershop is where the magic happens. Boys go in as lumps of clay and, with princely robes draped around their shoulders, a dab of cool shaving cream on their foreheads, and a slow, steady cut,...
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Call #: E BARNES
Location: Picture Books
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Brit Bennett
(245,384)
Summary: The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that...
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BOOK
Call #: F BENNETT
Location: New Adult Fiction
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Brit Bennett
Summary: The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that...
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Call #: PLAYAWAY F BENNETT
Location: Adult Playways
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by
Elizabeth Berg
(10,207)
Summary: Three women are each struggling against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom. It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvis's birth, tensions are mounting over...
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Daniel Bernstrom
(260)
Summary: Discover the true meaning of being brave in this tender and whimsical picture book that follows a grandfather and grandson who travel through time in a beloved 1952 Ford.
BOOK
Call #: E BERNSTROM
Location: Picture Books
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Phil Bildner
Series:
Rip And Red - #4
(49)
Summary: With their fifth grade graduation only weeks away, Rip, Red, and the rest of their classmates must decide if boycotting a test is worth forfeiting their graduation gala and the opportunity to play with Hoops Machine, a Harlem Globetrotters-like team.
BOOK
Call #: J F BILDNER
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Becky Birtha
(193)
Summary: During the Great Depression, Marshall, an African American boy, uses lessons learned in arithmetic class and guidance from his mother to figure out how many beans are in a jar in order to win her a new sewing machine in a contest.
BOOK
Call #: E BIRTHA
Location: Picture Books
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Judy Blume
(4,199)
Summary: When an African American family with three children moves into her white neighborhood, eleven-year-old Winnie learns the difference between being a good neighbor and being a good friend.
BOOK
Call #: J F BLUME
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Tonya Bolden
Series:
Crossing Ebenezer Creek
(536)
Summary: When Mariah and her young brother Zeke are suddenly freed from slavery, they set out on Sherman's long march through Georgia during the Civil War. Mariah wants to believe that the brutalities of...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F BOLDEN
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Cynthia Bond
(13,308)
Summary: Ephram Jenkins has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby, "the kind of pretty it hurt to look...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F BOND
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
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