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Author
Publisher
Teachers College Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Drawing from their wealth of experience in early childhood education, the authors present an asset- and strengths-based view of educating Black boys. This positive approach enables practitioners and school leaders to recognize, understand, and cultivate the diversity of social skills of Black boys in the early grades (pre-K–3rd grade). Each chapter begins with a vignette to illustrate what is lost when Black boys are prevented from participating...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"J.C. is excited to join the new baseball team at the community center and show off his pitching skills, but his enthusiasm turns to disappointment when Vicky is chosen to take the mound first."--
Author
Series
Leon ; 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Leon is an ordinary kid who becomes extraordinary when he fights a supervillain to save his school! In the city where Leon lives, superheroes--and supervillains--are commonplace. So how does an ordinary kid like Leon, who has no superpowers himself, become the superhero he wants to be? When all his classmates suddenly become obsessed with a new phone app that turns them into zombies, Leon gets his chance to prove that using his brain and following...
67) Mighty inside
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Melvin Robinson wants a strong, smooth, He-Man voice that lets him say what he wants, when he wants-especially to his crush Millie Takazawa, and Gary Ratliff, who constantly puts him down. But the thought of starting high school is only making his stutter worse. And Melvin's growing awareness that racism is everywhere--not just in the South where a boy his age has been brutally killed by two white men, but also in his own hometown of Spokane--is...
Author
Publisher
KWiL Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Part 1 tells Jonah's story, including his adoption from Ethiopia, and his challenges in school. Part 2 is a celebration of crochet, defining the fiber art, introducing readers to Jonah's crochet friends, and offering instructions on how to make an identity-inspired dishcloth." --
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Michael and his grandmother board a train for his first train ride, the conductor directs them to the "colored only" section. But when the train pulls out of Atlanta, the signs come down, and a boy from the "whites only" section runs up to Michael, inviting him to explore. How come Michael can go as he pleases in some states, but has to sit in segregated sections in others? Based on author Michael S. Bandy's own recollections of taking the train...
72) Billy
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Billy Lee Turner is convicted and executed for murdering a white girl in Banes County, Mississippi, in 1937, the whole town is involved in a look at racial injustice.
Author
Series
Tyrell show ; 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A highly illustrated, funny, and heartwarming story from the point of view of a precocious 11-year-old boy, Tyrell, who copes with his day-to-day stress by hosting an imaginary real-time podcast in his head!"--
75) Basketball Town
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In an unabashed wish-fulfillment tale for the ultimate basketball fan, a kid wakes up in a fantasy town where everyone plays basketball all day long. Maxwell loves basketball so much, he dreams about it every night-crashing the boards, splashing treys, and taking it to the rack. Then one day he wakes up . . . in Basketball Town! Everywhere he looks, everyone is hooping, and Maxwell can play anytime he wants. To get him ready for the Championship,...
77) Lover man
Author
Series
McNally Editions ; 14
Publisher
McNally Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Raw, fearless, ironic, the stories in Lover Man (1958) promised the birth of a new sensibility in American fiction. Inspired by the bebop he loved, and the philosophy he studied at the Sorbonne, Alston Anderson looked back at the North Carolina of his youth to capture the hidden lives of Black boys and men in the early 1940s. Fascinated by loners and outsiders--tricksters, addicts, jazzmen, drifters, "queers"--and by the spiritual cost exacted by...
Author
Series
Tyrell show ; 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Tyrell is finishing out his final year at Marcus Garvey Elementary. This time, without his best friend, Boogie. But they won't be apart for too much longer! The Tyrell Show is going on the road to visit Boogie in the Wild West. But when Tyrell shares the news of his visit with his best friend, Boogie starts acting strangely. What's going on? Tyrell is determined to get to the bottom of it. As it turns out, Boogie has a bully! Well, that's not going...
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