Betty before X by Shabazz, Ilyasah 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018)

BTSB #: 804732 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.9 MG RC: 5.3 6-8 Lexile: 810

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Shabazz, Betty - Fiction Family life - Michigan - Detroit - Fiction Civil rights movements - Fiction Racism - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Stepfamilies - Fiction Detroit (Mich.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.

Betty before X by Shabazz, Ilyasah 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2018)

BTSB #: P04071 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Shabazz, Betty - Childhood and youth - Fiction Black Muslims - Biography - Fiction African American Muslims - Biography - Fiction Civil rights movements - Fiction Family life - Michigan - Detroit - Fiction Civil rights movements - Fiction Racism - Fiction Detroit (Mich.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.

Fist for Joe Louis and me [Tales of young Americans series]by Noble, Trinka Hakes 

BTSB Prebound(Sleeping Bear Press, 2019)

BTSB #: 677956 Available

Dewey: EAges: 6-8   
Lexile: 610

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Boxing - Fiction Family life - Michigan - Detroit - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Germans - Michigan - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction Detroit (Mich.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In Depression-era Detroit, Gordy and Ira, one African-American and one German-Jewish, bond over a shared interest in boxing as America awaits the rematch between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling.