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.

Mahogany : a Little Red Riding Hood tale by Brown-Wood, JaNay 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2024)

BTSB #: 483799 Available

Dewey: 813.6/EAges: 5-8   
Lexile: 590 AD

Genres: Fairy Tales Multicultural

Subjects: Characters and characteristics in literature - Fiction African American girls - Fiction Grandmothers - Fiction Wolves - Fiction Fairy tales

Summary: When taking cornbread to G-Ma, Mahogany encounters a hungry wolf and outsmarts him by cleverly hiding in the woods and using her sewing skills to trap him.