Archives: Books
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Beautiful Shades of Brown: The Art of Laura Wheeler Waring
Growing up, Laura didn’t see any paintings of people who looked like her. Now her portraits of prominent African Americans hang in the National Portrait Gallery.
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Birdsong
When a young girl moves to a new home, a place far away from the sea, she feels lonely and out of place. But soon she meets an elderly woman …
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Child of the Dream (A Memoir of 1963)
In January 1963, Sharon Robinson turns thirteen the night before George Wallace declares on national television “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” in his inauguration speech as governor of Alabama. …
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Illegal
A powerfully moving graphic novel by New York Times bestselling author Eoin Colfer and the team behind the Artemis Fowl graphic novels that explores the current plight of undocumented immigrants. …
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The Watcher
A poetic story inspired by Psalm 121 Jordan lives in fear of Tanya, the class bully. But Tanya has worries of her own, no matter how much she tries to …
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Rise of the Jumbies
Deep beneath the waves, a great enemy awakens . . . Corinne LaMer defeated the wicked jumbie Severine months ago, but things haven’t exactly gone back to normal in her …
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Sweet Dreams, Sarah
Sarah Goode is born into slavery, but with the end of the Civil War she finds a way to make her dreams come true, becoming one fo the first African-American …
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Shark Lady
This is the story of a woman who dared to dive, defy, discover, and inspire. This is the story of Shark Lady. Eugenie Clark fell in love with sharks from …
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Layla’s Happiness
Seven-year-old Layla loves life! So she keeps a happiness book. What is happiness for her? For you? Spirited and observant, Layla’s a child who’s been given room to grow, making …
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Papa, Daddy, and Riley
Riley is Papa’s princess and Daddy’s dragon. She loves her two fathers! When Riley’s classmate asks her which dad is her real one, Riley is confused. She doesn’t want to …
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Dream On, Amber
My name is Amber Alessandra Leola Kimiko Miyamoto. I have no idea why my parents gave me all those hideous names but they must have wanted to ruin my life, …
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The Jumbies
Corinne La Mer claims she isn’t afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They’re just tricksters made up by parents to frighten …
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Project Middle School (Alyssa Milano’s Hope #1)
Hope is eleven years old, and she wants to be an astrophysicist. She loves swimming, Galaxy Girl comic books, her best friend Sam, and her two rescue dogs. Hope believes …
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Zoe and the Fawn
Zoe and her father are delighted to come across a fawn in the forest. But the fawn is alone—where is its mother? Join Zoe on her quest for the deer, …
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DK Life Stories: Katherine Johnson
It was an incredible accomplishment when the United States first put a person on the moon–but without the incredible behind-the-scenes work of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, such a feat could …
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Superb Vol. 1: Life After the Fallout
After The Event in which Earth was saved from an asteroid but a meteor shower hit the world, Youngstown, Ohio, became a Level 5 impact zone, with incidents of mysterious …
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Lorraine
Old Crow Medicine Show founder and Grammy award-winning musician Ketch Secor teams up with Ashley Bryan Award-winning illustrator Higgins Bond to create this sweeping, epic Americana story about the power …
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Ghost Squad
Shortly before Halloween, Lucely and her best friend, Syd, cast a spell that accidentally awakens malicious spirits, wreaking havoc throughout St. Augustine. Together, they must join forces with Syd’s witch …
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DK Life Stories: Harriet Tubman
Born into slavery in c.1820, Harriet Tubman would later run away and help scores of other African American slaves escape to freedom in the North using the “Underground Railroad.” A …
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Light at the Bottom of the World
In a futuristic Britain that is immersed underwater, Leyla McQueen must race her submersible to win a chance to save her father from imprisonment.
