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Mia Mayhem stops time! / by West, Kara.; Hernandez, Leeza.;
Ages 5-9.LSC
Subjects: Macarooney, Mia (Fictitious character); Superheroes; African American children; Time;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hey black child / by Perkins, Useni Eugene.; Collier, Bryan.;
An empowering story that celebrates black children and seeks to inspire all young ones to dream big and achieve their goals.LSC
Subjects: African American children; Power (Social sciences); Success; Motivation (Psychology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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You were always mine / by Pride, Christine,author.; Piazza, Jo,author.;
When Cinnamon Haynes, a black woman, takes an abandoned white baby into her home, she struggles to keep her own past hidden while dealing with the shocking judgments from friends and strangers alike as she strives to do right by the child she grows more attached to with each passing day.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Abandoned children; African American women; Mothers; Racially mixed families;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The haunted house next door / by Miedoso, Andres.; Rivas, Victor.;
When supernatural things start happening in the house timid Andres and his parents just moved into, next-door-neighbor Desmond Cole, eight, comes to the rescue.Ages 5-9.LSC
Subjects: Ghost stories.; Adventure fiction.; African American children; Hispanic American children; Neighbors; Haunted houses; Moving, Household; Friendship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mia Mayhem vs. the mighty robot / by West, Kara.; Hernandez, Leeza.;
Ages 5-9.LSC
Subjects: Macarooney, Mia (Fictitious character); Superheroes; African American children; Robots;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Major monster mess / by Miedoso, Andres.; Rivas, Victor.;
When Andres discovers that he has had a monster encounter without knowing it as strange things start happening in the school cafeteria, he and Desmond investigate.Ages 5-9LSC
Subjects: Ghost stories.; Adventure fiction.; African American children; Hispanic American children; Monsters; School lunchrooms, cafeterias, etc.; Schools; Friendship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Somebody's daughter : a memoir / by Ford, Ashley C.,author.;
"One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who understands her. She thinks she understands him too. He's sensitive like her, an artist, and maybe even just as afraid of the dark. She's certain that one day they'll be reunited again, and she'll finally feel complete. There are just a few problems: he's in prison, and she doesn't know what he did to end up there. Through poverty, puberty, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley returns to her image of her father for hope and encouragement. She doesn't know how to deal with the incessant worries that keep her up at night, or how to handle the changes in her body that draw unwanted attention from men. In her search for unconditional love, Ashley begins dating a boy her mother hates; when the relationship turns sour, he assaults her. Still reeling from the rape, which she keeps secret from her family, Ashley finally finds out why her father is in prison. And that's where the story really begins. Somebody's Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she provides a poignant coming-of-age recollection that speaks to finding the threads between who you are and what you were born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Ford, Ashley C.; African American families; African American women; Children of prisoners; Prisoners' families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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M is for Melanin : a celebration of the black child. / by Rose, Tiffany.;
Each letter of the alphabet contains affirming, Black-positive messages, from A is for Afro, to F is for Fresh, to W is for Worthy. This book teaches children their ABCs while encouraging them to love the skin that they're in.LSC
Subjects: African American children; Success; Conduct of life; Motivation (Psychology); Alphabet books.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Invisible child : poverty, survival, and hope in an American city / by Elliott, Andrea,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolize Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani grows up, moving with her tightknit family from shelter to shelter, her story reaches back to trace the passage of Dasani's ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north. By the time Dasani comes of age in the twenty-first century, New York City's homeless crisis is exploding amid the growing chasm between rich and poor. In the shadows of this new Gilded Age, Dasani must lead her seven siblings through a thicket of problems: hunger, parental addiction, violence, housing instability, pollution, segregated schools, and the constant monitoring of the child-protection system. When, at age thirteen, Dasani enrolls at a boarding school in Pennsylvania, her loyalties are tested like never before. As she learns to "code-switch" between the culture she left behind and the norms of her new town, Dasani starts to feel like a stranger in both places. Ultimately, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning the family you love?"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Coates, Dasani, 2001-; African American homeless children; Homeless children;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Let the monster out / by Lucas, Chad.;
When things in their town keep getting stranger and stranger, Bones Malone and Kyle Specks team up to solve this mystery, which forces them to face their worst nightmares as they search for the truth.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Friendship; Autistic children; African American children; Cities and towns; Fear; Nightmares;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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