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Coretta Scott King - African American authors and illustrators

Pura Belpre Award - Latino or Latina author and illustrator

Schneider Family Book Award - author or illustrator for book that embodies the disability experience

Walter Awards - diverse authors who champion marginalizes voices

1) Confessions in B-flat

Author

Hill, Donna

Pub. Date

2020.

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Description

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Follows the 1964 Civil Rights-era relationship between a passive-resistance protégée of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a Harlem black culture supporter of Malcolm X.

2) The nickel boys: a novel

Author

Whitehead, Colson

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10

Appears on these lists

Black History Month Adult Fic
Juneteenth - Adult Fiction
Kirkus Prize for Fiction
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Formats

Book, CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

Description

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In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as...

3) Safe from the neighbors

Author

Yarbrough, Steve

Pub. Date

2010

Description

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This tightly constructed tale by PEN/Faulkner finalist Steve Yarbrough tells the story of a Mississippi history teacher who's determined to unravel the truth about one tragic day in 1962. Even as he pursues an affair with a long-lost friend, he wonders if she could hold the missing piece to this racially charged puzzle.

4) A sweet smell of roses

Author

Johnson, Angela

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1

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There's a sweet, sweet smell in the air as two young girls sneak out of their house, down the street, and across town to where men and women are gathered, ready to march for freedom and justice.

5) The two lives of Sara

Author

West, Catherine Adel

Pub. Date

2022.

Formats

Book, Large Print

Description

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"Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis, hoping to outrun her past in Chicago. She is welcomed with open arms by Mama Sugar, a kindly matriarch and owner of the popular boardinghouse The Scarlet Poplar. Like many cities in early 1960s America, Memphis is still segregated, but change is in the air. News spreads of the Freedom Riders. Across the country, people like Martin Luther King...