Catalog Search Results
121) Peter's chair
Author
Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he rescues the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds's debut picture book is a snappy, joyous ode to Word King, literary genius, and glass-ceiling smasher Langston Hughes and the luminaries he inspired. Back in the day, there was a heckuva party, a jam, for a word-making man. The King of Letters. Langston Hughes. His ABCs became drums, bumping jumping thumping like a heart the size of the whole country. They sent some people yelling...
123) Angel of Greenwood
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Randi Pink's The Angel of Greenwood is a historical YA novel that takes place during the Greenwood Massacre of 1921, in an area of Tulsa, OK, known as the "Black Wall Street."
"Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. A passionate follower of W.E.B. Du Bois, he believes that black people should rise up to claim their place...
125) Jabari tries
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jabari is making a flying machine all by himself, but when it doesn't work the way he imagined, he learns about perseverance and problem-solving.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade "Grandma's Boy" whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test"--
127) The hate u give
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
128) Magnolia flower
Author
Publisher
Amistad Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Born to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears, Magnolia Flower is a girl with a vibrant spirit. Not to be deterred by rigid ways of the world, she longs to connect with others, who too long for freedom. She finds this in a young man of letters who her father disapproves of. In her quest to be free, Magnolia must make a choice and set off on a journey that will prove just how brave one can be when leading with one's heart.
129) The secret detective
Author
Series
Ali Cross volume 3
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Ali Cross and his friends chase police cases while Ali is caught up in a debate about policing"--
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 29
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie use the magic tree house to travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, where they pretend to be batboys at Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves"--