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634324
Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins [Who Did It First? Book]by Meadows, Michelle 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2019)

BTSB #: 634324 Temp OS

Dewey: 792.802/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 3.3 LG Lexile: 570

Subjects: Collins, Janet,|d1917-2003 Ballet dancers - United States - Biography Ballerinas - United States - Biography African American dancers - Biography


Summary: A picture book tribute to Janet Collins, the first African American principal dancer at the Metropolitan Opera House.


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556231
Brother's keeper by Lee, Julie 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2021)

BTSB #: 556231 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.7 MG

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life


Subjects: Family life - Korea - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Refugees - Fiction Korean War, 1950-1953 - Fiction Korea (North) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's mother, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.


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By and by : Charles Albert Tindley, the father of gospel music by Weatherford, Carole Boston 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2020)

BTSB #: 924769 Available

Dewey: 287/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 3.7 LG Lexile: 580

Subjects: Tindley, Charles Albert Methodist Church - Clergy - Biography Hymn writers - United States - Biography Gospel music - History and criticism


Summary: A picture book biography about gospel composer and preacher Charles Albert Tindley.


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463349
Carter reads the newspaper by Hopkinson, Deborah 

BTSB Prebound(Peachtree, 2019)

BTSB #: 463349 Available

Dewey: 973/BAges: 6-9   
AR: 4.5 LG Lexile: 810 F&P: P

Subjects: Woodson, Carter Godwin,|d1875-1950 African American historians - Biography Historians - United States


Summary: A picture book biography of Carter G. Woodson, father of Black History Month, and what prompted him to push for the recognition of Black History.


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554174
Ching Shih : the world's most successful pirate [Pirate tales]by Leaf, Christina 

BTSB Prebound(Black Sheep, 2021)

BTSB #: 554174 Available

Dewey: 910.4/BAges: 8-11   
Lexile: 690 F&P: T

Subjects: Zheng, - Shi,|d1775-1844 Women pirates - China - Biography Pirates - China - Biography Biographical comic books, strips, etc China - History|y1796-1820, Jiaqing - Biography China - Naval history|y1644-1912


Summary: A biography of Ching Shih, including how she became a pirate so fierce that even the government stood down to her power. In graphic novel format.


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Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer by Sorell, Traci 

BTSB Prebound(Millbrook Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 835975 Available

Dewey: 629.1092/BAges: 6-10   
AR: 5.2 LG Lexile: 940

Subjects: Ross, Mary Golda Women aerospace engineers - United States - Biography Cherokee Indians - United States - Biography Native Americans - North America - Biography


Summary: Mary Golda Ross designed classified projects for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation as the company's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work.


101224
Counting on Katherine by Becker, Helaine 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2018)

BTSB #: 101224 Available

Dewey: 510.92/BAges: 6-8   
AR: 4.2 LG RC: 4.4 3-5 Lexile: 710

Subjects: Johnson, Katherine G United States.|bNational Aeronautics and Space Administration - Officials and employees - Biography Mathematicians African American women mathematicians - Biography


Summary: The bold story of Katherine Johnson, an African American mathematician who worked for NASA and calculated the flight path for the first Apollo moon landing.


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384833
Dark was the night by Golio, Gary 

BTSB Prebound(Nancy Paulsen, 2020)

BTSB #: 384833 Available

Dewey: 781.643/BAges: 5-8   
AR: 4.2 LG Lexile: 1010 AD

Subjects: Johnson, Blind Willie Blues musicians - United States - Biography African American musicians - Biography Blind musicians - Biography


Summary: The story of Blind Willie Johnson--the legendary Texas musician whose song "Dark Was the Night" was included on the Voyager I space probe's Golden Record.


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437691
Day for rememberin' : inspired by the true events of the first Memorial Day by Henderson, Leah 

BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2021)

BTSB #: 437691 Available

Dewey: EAges: 6-8   
AR: 4.8 MG F&P: T

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Freedmen - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Memorial Day - Fiction Charleston (S.C.) - Fiction United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Fiction


Summary: In Charleston, South Carolina, in 1865, ten-year-old Eli and other newly freed slaves gather to honor the memory of fallen Union soldiers, an event considered to be one of the first celebrations of what is now called Memorial Day.


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214845
Dear Mr. Dickens by Churnin, Nancy 

BTSB Prebound(Whitman, 2021)

BTSB #: 214845 Available

Dewey: 823/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 4.4 LG Lexile: 740 AD

Subjects: Dickens, Charles,|d1812-1870 - Correspondence Davis, Eliza - Correspondence Jews in literature Jews - Biography Conflict management


Summary: In Eliza Davis's day, Charles Dickens was the most celebrated living writer in England. But some of his books reflected a prejudice that was all too common at the time: prejudice against Jewish people. Eliza was Jewish, and her heart hurt to see a Jewish character in Oliver Twist portrayed as ugly and selfish. She wanted to speak out about how unfair that was, even if it meant speaking out against the great man himself. So, she wrote a letter to Charles Dickens. What happened next is history.


534870
Digging for words : Jose Alberto Gutierrez and the library he built by Kunkel, Angela Burke 

BTSB Prebound(Schwartz & Wade Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 534870 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 4 LG Lexile: 730 AD

Genres: General Fiction


Subjects: Gutierrez, Jose Alberto - Fiction Libraries - Fiction Books and reading - Fiction Refuse collectors - Fiction Community life - Fiction Colombians - Fiction Bogota (Colombia) - Fiction Colombia - Fiction


Summary: In Bogota, Columbia, young Jose eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by Jose Alberto Gutierrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Gutierrez's life and Bogota.


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311468
Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music by Engle, Margarita 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015)

BTSB #: 311468 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 4.2 LG RC: 4.3 3-5 Lexile: NP

Subjects: Drummers (Musicians) - Fiction Dance music - Fiction Gender role - Fiction Cuba - History|y1909-1933 - Fiction


Summary: Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.


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Ellen's broom by Lyons, Kelly Starling 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2012)

BTSB #: 591549 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-8   
AR: 4.5 LG RC: 2.4 K-2 Lexile: 610 AD

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Marriage - Fiction Brooms and brushes - Fiction Slavery - Fiction African Americans - Fiction


Summary: The broom hanging on the family's cabin wall is a special symbol of Ellen's parents' wedding during slave days, so she carries it to the courthouse when the marriage becomes legal.


101131
Emily Noether : the most important mathematician you've never heard of by Becker, Helaine 

BTSB Prebound(Kids Can Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 101131 Available

Dewey: 510.92/NAges: 6-8   
Lexile: 850

Subjects: Noether, Emmy,|d1882-1935 Women mathematicians - Germany - Biography Mathematicians - Germany - Biography Algebra


Summary: A picture book biography of a groundbreaking female German mathematician.


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639809
Escape from the Twin Towers [Ranger in time Volume: 11]by Messner, Kate 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 639809 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 4.1 MG Lexile: 570

Genres: Adventure Fiction Historical Fiction Animals


Subjects: World Trade Center (New York, N.Y. : 1970-2001) - Fiction Golden retrievers - Fiction Dogs - Fiction Time travel - Fiction September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Fiction Rescue work - Fiction Missing persons - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - Fiction


Summary: Ranger the time-travelling golden retriever was trained for search-and-rescue and even though he did not pass the tests he has used his training on his many trips to help people caught up in disasters; now he has arrived at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001 just as the first plane hits, and he must rescue fifth-graders Risha and Max who are trapped in the wreckage, guide them to safety, and hopefully reunite them with Risha's mother who works on the ninety-first floor.


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Escape of Robert Smalls : a daring voyage out of slavery by Jones-Radgowski, Jehan 

BTSB Prebound(Capstone Editions, 2019)

BTSB #: 581258 Available

Dewey: 973.8092/BAges: 6-9   
AR: 4.8 MG Lexile: 740

Subjects: Smalls, Robert,|d1839-1915 Slaves - South Carolina - Biography Escapes - South Carolina African Americans - South Carolina - Biography African American sailors - Biography United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Biography United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - African American participation


Summary: During the Civil War, an enslaved man pretending to be the captain of a Confederate steamship escaped to the North on a stolen boat with 15 other slaves.


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Esquivel! : space-age sound artist by Wood, Susan 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2016)

BTSB #: 962385 Available

Dewey: 780.92/BAges: 6-9   
AR: 4.6 LG RC: 6.3 3-5 Lexile: 910 F&P: P

Subjects: Esquivel, Juan Garcia Composers - Mexico


Summary: A picture-book biography of Juan Garcia Esquivel, musical innovator and the father of space-age, bachelor-pad lounge music.


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823765
Exquisite : the poetry and life of Gwendolyn Brooks by Slade, Suzanne 

BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2020)

BTSB #: 823765 Available

Dewey: 811/BAges: 6-8   
AR: 4.8 LG F&P: P

Subjects: Brooks, Gwendolyn,|d1917-2000 American poets|y20th century - Biography African American poets - Biography


Summary: A picture book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first black American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.


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566341
Fearless flights of Hazel Ying Lee by Leung, Julie 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2021)

BTSB #: 566341 Available

Dewey: 940/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 4.7 LG

Subjects: Lee, Hazel Ah Ying,|d1912-1944 Chinese Americans - Biography Women air pilots - Biography Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)


Summary: Hazel Ying Lee was not afraid of anything, and the moment she took her first airplane ride, she knew where she belonged. When people scoffed at her dreams of becoming a pilot, Hazel wouldn't take no for an answer. She joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II.


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164401
Feed your mind : a story of August Wilson by Bryant, Jennifer 

BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2019)

BTSB #: 164401 Available

Dewey: 812/BAges: 6-9   
AR: 4.6 MG

Subjects: Wilson, August American authors|y20th century - Biography African American authors|y20th century - Biography


Summary: A picture book biography of August Wilson (1945-2005), the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright best-known for Fences.


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