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Let the Children March

I couldn't play on the same playground as the white kids.
I couldn't go to their schools.
I couldn't drink from their water fountains.
There were so many things I couldn't do.

In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama…

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So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom

From author Gary D. Schmidt comes a picture book biography of a giant in the struggle for civil rights.

Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So T…

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Big

Traces a child’s journey to self-love and shows the power of words to both hurt and heal.

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My Name Is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth

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Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

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Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.

Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nob…

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Extra Yarn

This looks like an ordinary box full of ordinary yarn.

But it turns out it isn't.

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The Wednesday Wars

In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero. The Wednesday Wars is a wonderfully witty and compelling story about a teenage boy’s mishaps and adventures over …

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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

I set the North Star in the heavens and I mean for you to be free....

Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman hears these words from God one summer night and decides to leave her husband and family behind an…

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Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King

Adapted from her adult memoir, this is the autobiography of Coretta Scott King––wife of Martin Luther King, Jr., founder of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (the King Ce…

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Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

A poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican-American boy’s family and their adventure-filled road trip to bring their abuelito back from Mexico to live with them.

Pedro Mart…

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Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math...really good.

They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for Ameri…

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Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller

From an award-winning author and illustrator comes this picture book biography about beloved librarian and storyteller Augusta Braxton Baker, the first Black coordinator of children’s services at all …

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Perkin's Perfect Purple: How a Boy Created Color with Chemistry

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Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Acclaimed author Doreen Rappaport and Coretta Scott King Award winner Bryan Collier, who previously collaborated on Freedom River , have pooled their talents yet again in a…

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The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn

Meet Teeny-Weeny! A pint-sized unicorn in this funny, modern fairy tale about perception and self-confidence from a Caldecott-Honor winning creator.

Once upon a time, in a land where horses were mythic…

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World More Beautiful: The Life and Art of Barbara Cooney

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My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Renowned educator Christine King Farris, older sister of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., joins with celebrated illustrator Chris Soentpiet to tell this “outstanding” ( School Library Journal ) an…

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Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual

A picture book based on the popular spiritual. The classic lyrics have been reworked to chronicle the milestones, struggles, tragedies, and triumphs of African American history.

Stretching more than fo…

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Millions of Cats

Newbery Medal Honor Title (1929)

An American classic with a refrain that millions of kids love to Hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, millions and billions and trillions of cats .

Once upon a time th…

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