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1) Big
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is.
3) We could fly
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"At a sparrow's urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it's time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise. Drawing on lyrics from the song "We Could Fly" by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, which...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First paperback edition.
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Description
Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she'd also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact, learn to run track, and have a cute boy see past her giant forehead.) But in junior high, it's like all the rules have changed. Now she's suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying she's not black enough. Wait, what? Shay's sister,...
7) Amara's farm
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Description
A young girl searches for pumpkins on her farm in this joyful celebration of cool-weather fruits and vegetables.
Author
Series
Zora and me volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Description
A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending.
10) Lola sleeps over
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US edition.
Description
"Lola is excited for her first-ever sleepover at her cousin Hani's house where together they play, learn, and try new things." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Description
In rhyming text, Princess Truly strives to use her magic powers to be a good friend whether it is in the park with her pug Noodles (who needs a little help making new friends), in the rainbow clubhouse which she and her best friend are building, or at her very first sleepover.
14) Hey, baby girl!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Description
Brimming with love and affirmation, this sweet board book shows bright brown baby girls and little ones everywhere that they can do anything. With bouncing, rhythmic text from New York Times bestselling author Andrea Davis Pinkney and tender, charming illustrations from Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator Brian Pinkney, this inspirational ode is the perfect way to offer confidence at the earliest stage and show all little...
15) Honest June
Author
Series
Honest June volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Description
Eleven-year-old June Jackson has always been good at making the people around her happy, even if that means avoiding telling them what you really think, but as she starts middle school her fairy godmother puts a spell on her that forces her to speak only the truth -- even to her friends and family.
16) Moonflower
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Description
Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and want to go back to them -- they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuse to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they reject.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Description
In rhyming text super girl Princess Truly goes on a camping trip with little brother Ty and her dog, Sir Noodles; with her super powers she is not afraid of dark caves, bugs, or things that go bump in the night, which is a problem when she develops hiccups, and needs something to scare them away.
18) In the key of us
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Description
While thirteen-year-old Andi has suffered from anxiety attacks ever since her mother died ten months ago, Zora starting hurting herself whenever she feels out of control; they are both at Camp Harmony, an elite summer music camp, trying to deal with their problems and also the stress of competition -- but as the summer passes they find themselves increasingly drawn to each other, and maybe not just as friends.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"A charming storybook collection of sweet tales based on the Netflix series starring Ada Twist -- perfect for read-alouds or bedtime! Revisit some of your favorite episodes of the Netflix series, in print for the first time, with this gifty storybook collection. Each of the 12 stories retells a beloved episode from the show, making it perfect for group read-alouds or when it's time to settle down for bed." -- Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Zora and me volume 03
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"For Carrie and her best friend, Zora, Eatonville -- America's first incorporated black township -- has been an idyllic place to live out their childhoods. But when a lynch mob crosses the town's border to pursue a fugitive and a grave robbery resuscitates the ugly sins of the past, the safe ground beneath them seems to shift. Not only has Zora's own father -- the showboating preacher John Hurston -- decided to run against the town's trusted mayor,...
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