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61) Freedom fire
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Dactyl Hill Squad volume 2
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English
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Magdalys Roca and her friends from the Colored Orphan Asylum are heading southwest on the back of Stella, the giant pteranodon, to find Montez, her brother, wounded during the siege of Vicksburg; now they are heading into the heart of the fighting, depending on Magdalys' ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs--but one of the companions is not quite what she seems, and Magdalys's talent could make her a target for both sides.
62) Leaving Lymon
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English
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Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.
64) Saving Savannah
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English
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Savannah Riddle feels suffocated by her life as the daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington, D.C., until she meets a working-class girl named Nella who introduces her to the suffragette and socialist movements and to her politically active cousin Lloyd.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
Description
Jamie describes his mood throughout the day, using colors and rhythmic text, as he changes from an "easy green mood" while drawing a picture for his sister to a "brooding black mood" when he is teased for doing so.
66) Time for Kenny
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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During his busy day, Kenny gets dressed, fights his fear of the vacuum cleaner, gets a soccer lesson from his sister, and prepares for bed, with his loving family always near.
69) What lane?
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125 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Biracial sixth-grader Stephen questions the limitations society puts on him after he notices the way strangers treat him when he hangs out with his white friends and learns about the Black Lives Matter movement." --
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English
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In 1974, the first year of busing in Boston, Massachusetts, seventeen-year-old Ann Ahern's lesbianism, which has isolated her from other white students, draws her to her African French teacher and leads her to insights into Blacks' struggles in the post-Civil Rights era.
72) Joy takes root
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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English
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"In her grandmother's garden, a young Black girl learns about mindfulness and herbal medicine in this soothing intergenerational story about our connection to nature."--Amazon.com.
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260 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Having achieved fame and thousands of followers with her Tumblr exposé of her brilliant-yet-clueless parents, a seventeen-year-old African American honors student tries to keep secret that her microblog is ghostwritten by a forty-one-year-old white man.
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English
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After she is injured in a gang shooting, seventeen-year-old Alexis Duncan's dreams of a college scholarship and pro basketball career vanish, but, encouraged by new student Aamani Chakrabarti, Alexis shifts her focus to the school's STEM quiz bowl team, a group of self-professed nerds seeking their own futures outside of West Philly.
76) On the come up
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447 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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When sixteen-year-old Bri, an aspiring rapper, pours her anger and frustration into her first song, she finds herself at the center of a controversy.
77) A chorus rises
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260 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Once Portland-famous and now infamous, seventeen-year-old Naema Bradshaw is an Eloko -- a charismatic person gifted with a melody that people adore -- who navigates a personal and public reckoning, confronts the limits of her privilege, and discovers the nature of her Black girl magic.
Teen influencer Naema Bradshaw was famous, privileged -- and she an Eloko, a person who is gifted with a song that woos anyone who hears it. Everyone loved her --...
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316 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
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