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Framingham - Children's Black History Month
Wayland YA Booklists: Historical Fiction
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In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
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They're out of school, out on Nantucket ... and out of their minds! Anything can happen, and everything will happen during ONE CRAZY SUMMER! John Cusack and Demi Moore star as Hoops McCann, the scion of a long line of basketball stars who longs buck family tradition to be a cartoonist, and Cassandra Eldrich, the young woman who teaches him to follow his dreams even as she takes a hiatus from her own to help her grandparents save their house. Everything...
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All three books in the Coretta Scott King Award-winning series by New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia are now available in one eBook collection! Each humorous, unforgettable story follows the Gaither sisters as they grow up during one of the most tumultuous eras in recent American history, the 1960s. Read the adventures of eleven-year-old Delphine and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, as they visit their kin all over the rapidly...
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Warner Home Video
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[2016]
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English
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Hoops McCann has the name but not the talent to carry on the family basketball tradition. He'd rather use his drawing skills to earn an art school scholarship by writing and illustrating a love story. This summer, in Nantucket, he's going to get the necessary romantic experience by helping a singer try to save her family's property from developers.
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Gaither sisters volume 3
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"Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother, Big Ma, and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that's been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible"--Publisher's...
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Caleb Franklin and his big brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer with their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city.
Caleb Franklin and his big brother Bobby Gene have the whole summer for adventures in the woods behind their house in Sutton, Indiana. Caleb dreams of venturing beyond their ordinary small town, but his dad likes the family to stay close to home. Then Caleb and Bobby Gene meet new neighbor Styx Malone....
11) Un verano loco
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Quill Tree Books, un sello de HarperCollins Publishers
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[2024]
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Español
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"En 1968, uno de los años más tumultuosos de la historia estaounidense reciente, tres niñas viajan a Oakland, California, en busca de la madre que las abandonó. Un verano loco es una historia inolvidable, divertida y conmovedora de Rita Williams-Garcia, distinguida autora de libros infantiles y juveniles." --
Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She's had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile,...
12) Mañanaland
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Twelve-year-old Max, who loves the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeeper who can guide brave travelers on a journey into tomorrow, sets out on a dangerous quest to discover if he is true of heart and what the future holds, armed with a treasured compass, a mysterious stone rubbing, and Buelo's legend as his only guides.
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2018
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Fifty of the foremost diverse children's authors and illustrators—including Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kwame Alexander—share answers to the question, "In this divisive world, what shall we tell our children?" in this beautiful, full-color keepsake collection, published in partnership with Just Us Books.
What do we tell our children when the world seems bleak, and prejudice and racism run rampant? With 96 lavishly designed...
What do we tell our children when the world seems bleak, and prejudice and racism run rampant? With 96 lavishly designed...
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"This sequel [to Tru & Nelle] stands on its own. The writing is gorgeous-not one false stroke. Neri's uneasy peer into a piece of Americana squeezes dribs of hope from precious blood. Totally brilliant. Bravo!" -Rita Williams-Garcia, 3-time Coretta Scott King Award-Winner and Newbery honoree for One Crazy Summer ? "An absorbing story of true friends in troubled times." -Kirkus, starred review "As in Neri's first book about the real-life...
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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From We Need Diverse Books, the organization behind Flying Lessons & Other Stories, comes another middle-grade short story collection—this one focused on exploring acts of bravery—featuring some of the best own-voices children's authors, including R. J. Palacio (Wonder), Rita Williams-Garcia (One Crazy Summer), Linda Sue Park (A Long Walk to Water), and many more.
Not all heroes wear capes. Some...
Not all heroes wear capes. Some...
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Fans of Walter Dean Myers and Rita Williams-Garcia's One Crazy Summer will cherish this gripping story of an African American girl living in 1980s Brooklyn, who overcomes abuse and neglect in discovering real friendship, self-respect, and that pretty and mean don't always win.
Girls who are pretty have a way of looking down their perfect noses at anyone they feel isn't worthy of sharing the air with them. They have a way of making regular girls like...
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Hong Kong -- a Chinese city with British-based law, a unique place with a unique police force. In his latest book, Chris Emmett, best-selling author of "Hong Kong Policeman," puts you on the streets, alongside the Hong Kong police officers who were there during the greatest crises of the past few decades. In the 1960s, China's Cultural Revolution came to Hong Kong and in one crazy summer, ten Hong Kong police officers lost their lives, five of them...
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Kristi should spend her summer finding a new career and winning back her ex, Russ. She should not, under any circumstances, be flirting with her hot coworker, Ethan.
Kristi has a list of reasons she shouldn't cross that line: he's her coworker, they're just friends, she's still hung up on her ex. But the biggest reason that thin line needs to be a thick, impenetrable brick wall is that Ethan is one of her former students. Word about their relationship...
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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From We Need Diverse Books, the organization behind Flying Lessons & Other Stories, comes another middle-grade short story collection—this one focused on exploring acts of bravery—featuring some of the best own-voices children's authors, including R. J. Palacio (Wonder), Rita Williams-Garcia (One Crazy Summer), Linda Sue Park (A Long Walk to Water), and many more.
Not all heroes wear capes. Some...
Not all heroes wear capes. Some...
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