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6th Grade Recommended Reads
Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
OBD Coretta Scott King Award - YOUTH
Teen Short Reads: Books 250 Pages or Less
Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
OBD Coretta Scott King Award - YOUTH
Teen Short Reads: Books 250 Pages or Less
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Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave "assets", possibly including Emma.
2) Rosa
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Black Authors: Youth Biographies (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month - Youth
Eisenhower Public Library Kids Black History Month
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Black History Month - Youth
Eisenhower Public Library Kids Black History Month
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Provides the story of the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama set in motion all the events of the civil rights movement that resulted in the end of the segregated South.
4) Dark sons
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Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.
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