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Big Feelings about Back to School
Black History Month
How To Bring a Book to Life- Spring/Summer 2025
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Instilled with confidence by her parents, a young girl has a great first day of kindergarten.
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"Claire can't wait to get out on the ice and skate, skate, skate! She's going to jump, leap, and twirl! Just you wait--pretty soon she'll be on TV and dazzling audiences everywhere. But when Claire and her mom arrive at the Ice Center for Claire's very first skating lesson, it's not everything Claire was dreaming it would be...In this humorous tale of expectation meets reality, Claire discovers beautiful performances require lots of skill, and it's...
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Diverse Books - African American/ Black Experience in the U.S.
La La La 2024
Picture Books for Black History Month
La La La 2024
Picture Books for Black History Month
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When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
5) We could fly
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"At a sparrow's urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it's time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise. Drawing on lyrics from the song "We Could Fly" by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, which...
6) Shark teeth
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Seventh-grader Sharkita "Kita" embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
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Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
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"Civil rights activist, Ruby Bridges, recounts her reunion with her favorite first-grade teacher, Mrs. Henry"-- Provided by publisher.
"Acclaimed civil rights icon, Ruby Bridges, shares the touching tale of reuniting with the first-grade teacher who changed her life, Mrs. Henry. Once again, you have shown me that you never get too old to learn. Teaching really is the noblest of professions. When Ruby Bridges was only six years old, she made history...
10) I can help!
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In three rhyming stories, Princess Truly helps her friend pack for her moving day, cleans up the park with her pug, Sir Noodles, and helps a farmer get his tractor keys back from a crow.
11) Blast off!
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It is Abby Baxter's first day of third grade on the OASIS International Space Station and she is determined not to make any mistakes, but getting used to microgravity, watching her little brother, Nico, and meeting her new classmates, causes her to almost mess up Mami's big experiment.
12) Speculation
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In 1962, ten-year-old Winna Cole discovers a pair of magical spectacles that reveal both the friendly ghosts of her African American ancestors and a dangerous family curse.
13) Hurricane child
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Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
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Banned and Challenged Children's Books of the 2020's
Diverse Books - African American/ Black Experience in the U.S.
Goldilocks 2025
Diverse Books - African American/ Black Experience in the U.S.
Goldilocks 2025
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"When taking cornbread to Grandma, Mahogany encounters a hungry wolf and outsmarts him by cleverly hiding in the woods and using her sewing skills to trap him"--Provided by publisher.
Mahogany is taking gumbo to Grandma's house in the woods when she encounters a hungry wolf, and uses her nerve and skill at sewing to help her trap him.