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Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the strength and magic found in black girls, challenging the conditioning of society by offering a tribute to black women and girls everywhere.
Author
Language
English
Description
""Black girls represent 16 percent of female students but almost half of all girls with a school-related arrest. The first trade book to tell these untold stories, Pushout [explores] a world of confined potential and supports the growing movement to address the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
149 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing comes a new book of narrative in verse that takes a personal and historical look at the experience of Black girlhood. In the American imagination the contrasts between visibility and invisibility for Black girlhood are glaring. A recent report by the African American Policy Forum states that while Black girls make up only 16% of the female students in schools,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the bestselling author of The Sisters Are Alright comes a book of personal letters written by black women to black girls to nurture healthy womanhood and sisterhood, covering topics like identity, self-love, parents, violence, grief, mental health, sex, and sexuality"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An uplifting message of hope for the future and pride in your history, inspired by a mother's experience of being the only Black child in her classroom. Who do you see when you look in the mirror? Emphasizing the strength, creativity, and courage passed down through generations, A History of Me offers a joyful new perspective on how we look at history and an uplifting message for the future. Being the only brown girl in a classroom full of white students...
Author
Publisher
Rockport Publishers, an imprint of the Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Young scientist Cast Longs to join The Smiths, a legendary, exclusive society of warrior-engineers. Fortunately, Cast meets one surviving Smith, Ms. Philomena CLock, who agrees to tak her on as an assistant, or Striker h a series of life-threatening adventures, Cast uses her gift for remodeling old hardware to protect herself and those she cares for. Fortunately, her greatest invention, the mobile lab prosthetic, provides her unfathomable offensive...
Author
Publisher
Convergent Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
viii, 146 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"An adaptation of the powerful, New York Times bestselling account of growing up Black and female in America, completely rewritten with new stories for young readers. Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with race in America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to trick future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majority-white schools and churches, Austin writes, "I had to learn what it means...
12) Ruby Bridges
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
50 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A chapter book biography of Ruby Bridges, part of the She Persisted series"--
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An interesting tale that reveals how in 1963, due to demonstrations and public protests, an amusement park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time.
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