Blue : a history of the color as deep as the sea and as wide as the sky by Brew-Hammond, Nana Ekua 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2022)

BTSB #: 149320 Available

Dewey: 746.6/NAges: 4-8   
AR: 5.6 LG Lexile: 1060 AD F&P: U

Genres:

Subjects: Blue Dyes and dyeing Chemicals Clothing and dress

Summary: Explores the history and cultural significance of the color blue.

Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the Civil Rights movement by Joy, Angela 

BTSB Prebound(Roaring Brook Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 502274 Available

Dewey: 323.092/BAges: 6-10   
AR: 4.4 MG Lexile: 680

Genres:

Subjects: Till-Mobley, Mamie,|d1921-2003 Till, Emmett,|d1941-1955 African Americans - Biography Civil rights workers - Biography Civil rights movements Lynching

Summary: A picture book biography of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement.

Fighting for yes! : the story of disability rights activist Judith Heumann by Cocca-Leffler, Maryann 

BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2022)

BTSB #: 225301 Available

Dewey: 362/BAges: 6-8   


Genres:

Subjects: Heumann, Judith E United States.|tAmericans with Disabilities Act of 1990 People with disabilities - Biography Civil rights movements

Summary: A picture book biography celebrating the life and work of disability rights activist and icon Judith Heumann, highlighting one of her landmark achievements--leading the historic 504 Sit-in in 1977.

Hardcourt : stories from 75 years of the National Basketball Association by Bowen, Fred 

BTSB Prebound(Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 139304 Available

Dewey: 796.323/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.3 MG Lexile: 1000 NC F&P: U

Genres:

Subjects: National Basketball Association Basketball - United States - History Basketball players - United States

Summary: The story of the National Basketball Association from its origins through the major events and players who made basketball what it is today.

Seen and unseen : what Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adam' photographs reveal about the Japanese American Incarceration by Partridge, Elizabeth 

BTSB Prebound(Chronicle Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 702456 Available

Dewey: 940.53/NAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 990 F&P: Z

Genres:

Subjects: Miyatake, Toyo Lange, Dorothea Adams, Ansel Manzanar War Relocation Center United States.|bWar Relocation Authority.|bPhotography Section Japanese Americans - Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945 World War, 1939-1945 - Photography World War, 1939-1945 - Concentration camps - California - Manzanar

Summary: Examines the Japanese-American incarceration--and the complexity of documenting it--through the work of legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams who all photographed the events with different approaches and different results.