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Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
AD 250L
Language
English
Description
"Dream Variation," one of Langston Hughes's most celebrated poems, about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice, is now a picture book stunningly illustrated by Daniel Miyares ... An African-American boy faces the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice, but he dreams of a different life--one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his arms wide in the face of the sun"--
Author
Series
Fastback volume 486
Publisher
Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The New York Times best-selling and award-winning duo present this celebration of Black and Brown babies and the happiness, gentle moments and endless love shared between children and their caregivers.
9) Love to read: essays in developing and enhancing early literacy skills of African American children
Publisher
National Black Child Development Institute
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
11) Carbon copy
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When an uptight executive discovers he has a long-lost black son, his tidy world goes hopelessly and hilariously awry in this wickedly funny comedy.
12) I love my hair!
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 840L
Language
English
Description
A young African American girl describes the different, wonderful ways she can wear her hair. Every night before she goes to bed, Keyana sits down between her mother's knees to have her hair combed. But no matter how gently Mama pulls, it still hurts sometimes! Keyana doesn't feel lucky to have such a head of hair--until Mama reminds her of all the lovely ways her wonderful hair can be fixed. Full color.
14) Leaving Atlanta
Author
Language
English
Description
Award-winning novelist Tayari Jones delivers a story based on the 1979-1980 Atlanta child murders. Told from the perspective of three fifth-grade classmates, Leaving Atlanta is a vividly disturbing, but hopeful novel. The convincing characters, voiced by a full cast of narrators, make this a haunting and effective work.
16) Out of bounds
Author
Series
Hey L'il D! volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
L'il Dobber tries to earn money to buy a new basketball while staying out of trouble with his grouchy neighbor Mr. Palmer.
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In this wise and funny memoir, Ylonda Gault Caviness describes her journey to the realization that all the parenting advice she was obsessively devouring as a new parent didn't mean scratch compared to her mama's old school wisdom as a strong black woman and mother"--
20) Don't say ain't
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1957, a young girl is torn between life in the neighborhood she grew up in and fitting in at the school she now attends.