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803698
1789 : twelve authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change

Publisher Edition(Candlewick Press, 2020)


Publication Date: 09/01/2020

BTSB #: 803698 Available

Dewey: 900/NAges: 12-16   
AR: 8.7 UG Lexile: 1150

Subjects: Revolutions Conflict management Social change


Summary: Explores a tumultuous year when rights and freedoms collided with enslavement and domination, and the future of humanity seemed to be at stake.


6.50 *

872809
All the days past, all the days to come by Taylor, Mildred D. 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2020)


Publication Date: 01/07/2020

BTSB #: 872809 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.2 UG

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Family life - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction


Summary: The final installment in the story of the Logan family of Mississippi. Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60's, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north and rise of the civil rights movement.


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863495
Bitter side of sweet by Sullivan, Tara 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2016)


Publication Date: 02/23/2016

BTSB #: 863495 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.1 UG RC: 5.3 6-8 Lexile: 810 F&P: Z

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Slavery - Fiction Child labor - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction Black people - Cote d'Ivoire - Fiction Cote d'Ivoire - Fiction


Summary: Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape.


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393471
Code of honor by Gratz, Alan 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2015)


Publication Date: 09/15/2015

BTSB #: 393471 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.7 UG RC: 4.8 6-8 Lexile: 660 HL F&P: Z

Genres: Adventure Fiction Family Life


Subjects: Brothers - Fiction Ciphers - Fiction Terrorism - Fiction Iranian Americans - Fiction Muslims - Fiction


Summary: When Iranian-American Kamran Smith learns that his big brother, Darius, has been labelled a terrorist, he sets out to piece together the codes and clues that will save his brother's life and his country from a deadly terrorist attack.


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290495
Copper sun by Draper, Sharon M. 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006)


Publication Date: 01/15/2006

BTSB #: 290495 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.2 UG RC: 4.8 9-12 Lexile: 820

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Slavery - Fiction Contract labor - Fiction South Carolina - History|y1600-1775, Colonial period - Fiction Florida - History - Fiction


Summary: Two girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.


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370741
Dark sky rising : reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow by Gates, Henry Louis 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Focus, 2019)


Publication Date: 02/15/2019

BTSB #: 370741 Available

Dewey: 973/NAges: 9-12   
AR: 8.7 MG+ Lexile: 1200

Subjects: African Americans - History|y1863-1877 Reconstruction (1865-1877) African Americans - Social conditions|y19th century African Americans - Segregation - Southern States - History Southern States - Race relations - History


Summary: Gives an account of the people and events of Reconstruction's noble democratic experiment, its tragic undermining, and the drawing of a new "color line" in the long Jim Crow era that followed.


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469986
Displacement by Hughes, Kiku 

Paperback(First Second, 2020)


Publication Date: 08/18/2020

BTSB #: 469986 Temp OS

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 12-18   
AR: 4.7 UG

Subjects: Japanese Americans - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Time travel - Fiction Graphic novels


Summary: A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her late grandmother's experiences in WWII-era Japanese internment camps.


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166642
Eyes of the world : Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the invention of modern photojournalism by Aronson, Marc 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2017)


Publication Date: 03/07/2017

BTSB #: 166642 Available

Dewey: 770/CAges: 12-18   
AR: 8 MG+RC: 9.5 6-8 Lexile: 1060

Subjects: Capa, Robert,|d1913-1954 Taro, Gerta,|d1910-1937 Photojournalists - Europe - Biography War photographers - Europe - Biography Photojournalism Spain - History|y1936-1939, Civil War - Biography Spain - History|y1936-1939, Civil War - Photography


Summary: How two Jewish refugees pioneered photojournalism with photographs of the Spanish Civil War published in news magazines.


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423295
Few red drops : the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Hartfield, Claire 

BTSB Prebound(Clarion, 2018)


Publication Date: 01/02/2018

BTSB #: 423295 Available

Dewey: 305.896/NAges: 12-16   
AR: 7.9 MG+RC: 10.6 9-12 Lexile: 1120

Subjects: Chicago Race Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1919 African Americans - Illinois - Chicago - Social conditions Chicago (Ill.) - Race relations - History|y20th century Chicago (Ill.) - History|y1875-


Summary: Examines the events and forces leading up to 1919 race riots in Chicago.


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568450
March : book one by Lewis, John 

BTSB Prebound(Top Shelf Productions, 2013)


Publication Date: 08/13/2013

BTSB #: 568450 Temp OS

Dewey: 323.1196/NAges: 10-16   
AR: 4.6 MG RC: 5.6 6-8 Lexile: 760 GN

Subjects: Lewis, John,|d1940-2020 Civil rights movements - United States Civil rights workers Historical comic books, strips, etc


Summary: A vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. In graphic novel format.


568465
March : book three by Lewis, John 

BTSB Prebound(Top Shelf, 2016)


Publication Date: 08/02/2016

BTSB #: 568465 Available

Dewey: 323.1196/NAges: 13-16   
AR: 5.9 MG+RC: 5.7 6-8

Subjects: Lewis, John,|d1940-2020 Civil rights movements - United States Civil rights workers Historical comic books, strips, etc


Summary: The conclusion to the March trilogy, the books that explain the methods and the moral foundations of the civil rights movement, how civil rights activists did what they did and won what they won, and how they had the strength to do it in the most difficult circumstances imaginable. In graphic novel format.


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568457
March : book two by Lewis, John 

BTSB Prebound(Top Shelf, 2015)


Publication Date: 01/20/2015

BTSB #: 568457 Available

Dewey: 323.1196/NAges: 13-16   
AR: 5.5 MG+RC: 6.5 6-8 Lexile: 850 GN

Subjects: Lewis, John,|d1940-2020 Civil rights movements Civil rights workers Historical comic books, strips, etc


Summary: Congressman John Lewis takes us behind the scenes of some of the most pivotal moments of the Civil Rights Movement. In graphic novel form, his first-hand account makes these historic events both accessible and relevant to an entire new generation of Americans. In graphic novel format.


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Sinking the Sultana : a Civil War story of imprisonment, greed, and a doomed journey home by Walker, Sally M. 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2017)


Publication Date: 10/15/2017

BTSB #: 916131 Available

Dewey: 976.8/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 7.7 MG+RC: 10.3 6-8 Lexile: 1090 F&P: Z

Subjects: Sultana (Steamboat) Steamboat disasters Mississippi River


Summary: The worst maritime disaster in American history was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River-and it could have been prevented.


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748959
Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you by Reynolds, Jason 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2020)


Publication Date: 03/10/2020

BTSB #: 748959 Available

Dewey: 305.8009/NAges: 12-16   
AR: 7.4 MG+ Lexile: 1000 F&P: Z+

Subjects: Racism - United States - History United States - Race relations - History


Summary: A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today.


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151828
Strike! : the farm workers' fight for their rights by Brimner, Larry Dane 

BTSB Prebound(Calkins Creek, 2014)


Publication Date: 10/15/2014

BTSB #: 151828 Available

Dewey: 331/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 8.5 MG RC: 11.6 6-8 Lexile: 1220

Subjects: Chavez, Cesar,|d1927-1993 United Farm Workers Grape Strike, Calif., 1965-1970 Filipino Americans Mexican Americans Migrant labor


Summary: Oral histories, FBI files, personal diaries, letters, and newspapers tell the dramatic story of the Delano grape strike and the rise (and fall) of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers of America.


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311458
Surrender tree : poems of Cuba's struggle for freedom by Engle, Margarita 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2008)


Publication Date: 04/15/2008

BTSB #: 311458 Available

Dewey: 811/NAges: 12-18   
AR: 6.4 MG RC: 5.2 6-8 Lexile: NP F&P: Z

Subjects: American poetry Cuba - History - Poetry


Summary: Cuba has fought three wars for independence, and still she is not free. This history in verse creates a lyrical portrait of Cuba.


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441479
They went left by Hesse, Monica 

Paperback(Little, Brown, 2020)


Publication Date: 04/07/2020

BTSB #: 441479 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.1 UG Lexile: 730 HL

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Holocaust survivors - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Jews - Poland - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Poland - Fiction Europe - History|y1945- - Fiction Poland - History|yGerman occupation, 1940-1945 - Fiction


Summary: Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life.


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361462
This light between us : a novel of World War II by Fukuda, Andrew Xia 

Paperback(Tor Teen, 2020)


Publication Date: 03/09/2021

BTSB #: 361462 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-17   
AR: 5 MG+ Lexile: 690

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: United States.|bArmy.|bRegimental Combat Team, 442nd - Fiction Pen pals - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction Japanese Americans - Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945 - Fiction Jews - France - Paris - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction


Summary: In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Levy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.


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361464
This light between us : a novel of World War II by Fukuda, Andrew Xia 

BTSB Prebound(Tor Teen, 2020)


Publication Date: 01/07/2020

BTSB #: 361464 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-17   
AR: 5 MG+ Lexile: 690

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: United States.|bArmy.|bRegimental Combat Team, 442nd - Fiction Pen pals - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction Japanese Americans - Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945 - Fiction Jews - France - Paris - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction


Summary: In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Levy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.


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151826
Twelve days in May : freedom ride 1961 by Brimner, Larry Dane 

BTSB Prebound(Calkins Creek, 2017)


Publication Date: 11/07/2017

BTSB #: 151826 Available

Dewey: 323.1/NAges: 10-18   
AR: 7 MG Lexile: 1080

Subjects: Civil rights workers Civil rights movements Freedom Rides|y1961 Segregation Race relations - United States Southern States


Summary: For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen black and white civil rights activists, also known as the "Freedom Riders," traveled by bus into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. Despite their peaceful protests, the Freedom Riders were met with increasing violence the further south they traveled.


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