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Book
2014
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she...
12 available of 13 items
Book
2018
Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
13 available of 24 items
Book
2012
When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.
4 available of 19 items
Book
2019
"An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming. Two families fr...
3 available of 27 items
Large Print
2019
In 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wear...
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Book On CD
2014
Stories of the author's childhood from the '60s and '70s told in prose.
1 available of 1 items
Book
2001
Two girls, one white and one black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the fence that divides their town.
7 available of 11 items
Book
2013
A rope passed down through the generations frames an African American family's story as they journey north during the time of the Great Migration.
7 available of 9 items
Book
2018
"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--Provid...
14 available of 18 items
Book
2018
"The international sensation, "a compelling rhapsody of the female essence" (Chicago Tribune), relaunched with new material for its 20th anniversary. This expanded edition of the bestseller that changed the way women thi...
5 available of 7 items
Book On CD
2019
"An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming. Two families fr...
3 available of 4 items
Book
2005
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
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DVD
2013
Bink & Gollie: These two girls are roller-skaters and marvelous companions who often do not agree --on socks, or goldfish, or venturing to the Andes. This humorous story relates how compromise helps these two very differ...
10 available of 11 items
Book
2007
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
30 available of 30 items
Book On CD
2018
"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"-- Provi...
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DVD
2012
Clover always wondered why there was a fence that separated the black side of town from the white side. When a young white girl, from the other side, starts to sit on the fence, her curiousity, and a friendship, develops...
1 available of 1 items