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 by Arnold Adoff
Black Is Brown Is Tan
Published 2002 by Amistad Press
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A groundbreaking poetry book, enlarged and newly reillustrated by award-winning poet Arnold Adoff and Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully.
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 by Becky Birtha
Grandmama's Pride
Published 2005 by Albert Whitman & Company
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Set in the South of the 1960s, this picture book tells the story of young Sarah Marie, who visits her Grandmama every summer. One summer in particular, Sarah Marie faces a hard realization about the segregated South. By the next summer, things are different. Full color.
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 by Marie Bradby
More Than Anything Else
Published 1995 by Scholastic
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 by Eve Bunting
The Blue and the Gray
Published 1996 by Scholastic
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 by Kenneth Cole
No Bad News
Published 2001 by Albert Whitman & Company
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 by Leo Dillon
Rap a Tap Tap
Published 2002 by Blue Sky Press (AZ)
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This simple book for young children tells the story of African-American tap dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, who was famous in the 1920s and "talked with his feet." Full color.
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 by Virginia Hamilton
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book
Published 2004 by Alfred A. Knopf
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"THE PEOPLE COULD FLY," the title story in Virginia Hamilton's prize-winning American Black folktale collection, is a fantasy tale of the slaves who possessed the ancient magic words that enabled them to literally fly away to freedom. And it is a moving tale of those who did not have the opportunity to "fly" away, who remained slaves with only their imaginations to set them free as they told and retold this tale.
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 by Caroivia Herron
Nappy Hair
Published 1998 by Dragonfly Books
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Now in Dragonfly: a lively, empowering story about Brenda's knotted-up, twisted, nappy hair and how it got to be that way! Told in the African-American "call and response" tradition, this story leaps off the page, along with vibrant illustrations by Joe Cepeda.
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 by Deborah Hopkinson
Under the Quilt of Night
Published 2002 by Atheneum Books
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This sequel to the International Reading Association Children's Book Award winner "Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt" captures all the drama and emotion of a girl's heartstopping escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad. Illustrations.
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 by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys
Published 2000 by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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All Virgie wants is to go to school with her brothers George, Will, Nelson, Val, and C. C. But they keep saying she's too little for the long, seven-mile walk, and that girls don't need school.
Well, Virgie doesn't agree, and she's not gonna let anything stand in her way.
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 by Rachel Isadora
Luke Goes to Bat
Published 2005 by Putnam Publishing Group
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In this heartwarming story about never giving up, Isadora offers a touching salute to 1950s Brooklyn, baseball at Ebbets Field, and one of the most inspiring players ever to take the field--Jackie Robinson. Full color.
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 by Julius Lester
Black Cowboy, Wild Horses
Published 1998 by Dial Books
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Based on true accounts by Bob Lemmons, a former slave, "Black Cowboy, Wild Horses" chronicles Lemmons' adventures as he tracks wild horses across the plains. Full color.
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 by Patricia C. McKissack
Goin' Someplace Special
Published 2001 by Atheneum Books
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Based on the author's childhood in Nashville, Tennessee, this story follows 'Tricia Ann, a young black girl growing up in the South of the 1950s, who finds herself face-to-face with signs everywhere saying "For Whites Only". When her grandmother allows her to go "someplace special" for the first time, 'Tricia Ann heads for the public library--where "all" are welcome. Full-color illustrations.
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 by Patricia C. McKissack
Precious and the Boo Hag
Published 2005 by Atheneum Books
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From the author of the Newbery Honor-winning "The Dark-Thirty" comes a deliciously funny, not-too-scary picture book featuring a spunky heroine and the Boo Hag, a crafty spirit that will stop at nothing to get inside the house. Full color.
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 by William Miller
Bus Ride
Published 1998 by Lee & Low Books
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An African-American girl discovers how one child can make a difference when she refuses to sit at the back of the bus. Based on the landmark incident that touched off the civil rights movement in 1955, "The Bus Ride" poignantly portrays a child who discovers the courage of her convictions. Full color.
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 by William Miller
Night Golf
Published 2002 by Lee & Low Books
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Despite being told that only whites can play golf, James is befriended by an older African-American caddy who teaches him to play on the course at night. Full color.
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 by Chris Raschka
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
Published 1992 by Scholastic
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 by Faith Ringgold
Aunt Harriet's Underground Rai
Published 1992 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
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by Alan Schroeder
Ragtime Tumpie
Published 1989 by Joy Street Books
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 by Ntozake Shange
Ellington Was Not a Street
Published 2004 by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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With this poem from her first collection of poetry, renowned poet Shange evokes names that are associated with one of the most influential cultural movements of the 20th century--the Harlem Renaissance. Full color.
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