Clean getaway by Stone, Nic 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2020)

BTSB #: P07995 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Grandmothers - Fiction Grandchildren - Fiction African American families - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Recreational vehicles - Fiction

Summary: Set against the backdrop of the segregation history of the American South, take a trip with an eleven-year-old boy who is about to discover that the world hasn't always been a welcoming place for kids like him.

Darkest child by Phillips, Delores 

Paperback(Soho, 2018)

BTSB #: 714682 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   


Genres: Family Life Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: African American families - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction African American girls - Fiction Single mothers - Fiction Teenage girls - Fiction Georgia - Social life and customs|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In 1958 Georgia, the shade of a 13-year-old black girl's skin can make the difference in her fate. Tangy Mae is the smartest of her mother's ten children, but she is also the darkest-complected. The Quinns--all different skin shades, all with unknown fathers--live with their charismatic, beautiful, and tyrannical mother, Rozelle, in poverty on the fringes of a Georgia town where Jim Crow rules.

Song of Solomon by Morrison, Toni 

Paperback(Vintage International, 2004)

BTSB #: 660218 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   


Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: African American families - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Interpersonal relations - Fiction Michigan - Fiction

Summary: Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly.

Unbound : a novel in verse by Burg, Ann E. 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2016)

BTSB #: P03543 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Slaves - United States - Fiction African American families - Fiction Slavery - United States - Fiction Fugitive slaves - Fiction Family life - Fiction Southern States - History|y1775-1865 - Fiction

Summary: The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.