Bound To Stay Bound

Black girl you are Atlas by Watson, Renee 

BTSB Prebound(Kokila, 2024)

BTSB #: 922553 Available

Dewey: 811/NAges: 12-16   
Lexile: NP

Genres:

Subjects: African Americans - Poetry Women - Poetry American poetry

Summary: Using a mixture of poetic forms from haiku and tanka to prose poems and free verse, Watson shares recollections of her childhood in Portland, tender odes to the Black women in her life, and urgent calls for Black girls to step into their power with love, understanding, and celebration.

Coretta : the autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King by King, Coretta Scott 

BTSB Prebound(Godwin Books, 2024)

BTSB #: 518482 Available

Dewey: 323.092/AAges: 4-8   


Genres:

Subjects: King, Coretta Scott,|d1927-2006 Civil rights workers - Biography Women - Biography African Americans - Biography

Summary: Celebrate the life of the extraordinary civil and human rights activist Coretta Scott King with this picture book adaptation of her critically acclaimed adult memoir.

Dream street by Walker, Tricia Elam 

BTSB Prebound(Anne Schwartz Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 915801 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 4.5 LG Lexile: 940 AD F&P: O

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Neighborhoods - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Interpersonal relations - Fiction

Summary: Real-life cousins pay gorgeous homage to the street they grew up on and the loving community that made their childhood special.

Hope is an arrow : the story of Lebanese American poet Kahlil Gibran by McCarthy, Cory 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 618496 Available

Dewey: 811/BAges: 6-9   
F&P: W

Genres:

Subjects: Gibran, Kahlil,|d1883-1931 - Childhood and youth Lebanese Americans - Biography Immigrants - Biography Poets - Biography Artists - Biography

Summary: Before Kahlil Gibran ever put his pen to the page to eventually become the world's third best-selling poet of all time, he was Gibran Khalil Gibran, a child immigrant from Lebanon who had a secret hope. His secret hope: to connect all people from around the world, bringing them together despite their differences and beliefs.

Saving American Beach : the biography of African American environmentalist MaVynee Betsch by King, Heidi Tyline 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2021)

BTSB #: 518553 Available

Dewey: 333.7209/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 4.3 LG F&P: O

Genres:

Subjects: Betsch, MaVynee,|d1935-2005 African American environmentalists - United States - Biography African American singers - United States - Biography Social action

Summary: A biography of MaVynee Betsch, an African American opera singer turned environmentalist who worked to preserve American Beach, Florida, as a historical landmark.

Stuff of stars by Bauer, Marion Dane 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2018)

BTSB #: 097271 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
F&P: Q

Genres:

Subjects: Universe - Origin - Fiction Organisms - Origin - Fiction Human beings - Origin - Fiction

Summary: An exploration of how the Big Bang may have formed the universe, giving birth to its many organisms including humans.