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Celebrate Black History Month with these recommended titles by, for and about African Americans.
All of these library materials are owned by the Metropolitan Library System. Log on to CyberMars with your library card to reserve any titles that interest you, or ask a librarian for assistance.
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Fire From the Rock
Sharon M. Draper (Dutton Children's Books, c2007)
Shelf Number: FICTION/DRA YOUNG ADULT
Its 1957, and Sylvia Patterson is shocked when she is asked to be one of the first black students to attend Central High School in Little Rock. Before Sylvia makes her final decision, smoldering racial tension ignites into flame. |
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A Friendship for Today
Pat McKissack (Scholastic Press, c2007)
Shelf Number: J FICTION/MCK
In 1954 Missouri, 12-year-old Rosemary Patterson is about to make history as one of the first African-American students to enter the all-white school in her town. When the girl who has shown her the most cruelty becomes an unlikely confidante, Rosemary learns important truths about the power of friendship to overcome prejudice. |
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Harlem Summer
Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic, c2007)
Shelf Number: FICTION/MYE YOUNG ADULT
In 1925 Harlem, 16-year-old Mark Purvis wants a chance to play saxophone for piano-playing jazz great Fats Waller. Fats offers another opportunity first--a simple delivery job for some fast cash. However, gangster Dutch Schultz wants in on the deal, in this poignant, often hilarious coming-of-age novel. |
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Letters From a Slave Boy: the Story of Joseph Jacobs
Mary E. Lyons (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007)
Shelf Number: FICTION/LYO YOUNG ADULT
In this companion novel to "Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs," Lyons turns her attention to Harriet's son, Joseph, who escapes slave catchers in his North Carolina home and describes his journey to New York City, then to California, through letters imagined by the author. |
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Maggie's Amerikay
Barbara T. Russell (Farrar, c2006)
Shelf Number: TWEEN/RUS
Striking illustrations pull readers into the rich mix of people that make up New Orleans in the 1890s and into the story of one young girl's quest to find her own place in America. |
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Sallie Gal and the Wall-a-kee Man
Shelia P. Moses (Scholastic, c2007)
Shelf Number: TWEEN/MOS
In this immediate and exciting child-sized adventure, Moses tells a heartwarming story about a cotton sharecropper family on a North Carolina farm in the 1960s. |
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