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628156
Abby takes a stand [Scraps Of Time]by McKissack, Pat 

Paperback(Viking, 2005)

BTSB #: 628156 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.6 MG RC: 3 3-5 Lexile: 580 F&P: Q

Subjects: Segregation - Fiction Civil rights demonstrations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Nashville (Tenn.) - Fiction


Summary: Gee recalls for her grandchildren the 1960 sit-ins held at restaurants and lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee to protest segregation.


6.55 *

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748444
Back of the bus by Reynolds, Aaron 

Paperback(Puffin, 2010)

BTSB #: 748444 Temp OS

Dewey: EAges: 6-8   
AR: 3.3 LG Lexile: 590 AD

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Parks, Rosa,|d1913-2005 - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Civil rights movements - Fiction African Americans - Fiction


Summary: An African American child watches the arrest of Rosa Parks.


7.37 *

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050111
Becoming Muhammad Ali by Patterson, James 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2020)

BTSB #: 050111 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.4 MG RC: 8.6 6-8 Lexile: 1010

Genres: Historical Fiction Sports Family Life


Subjects: Ali, Muhammad,|d1942-2016 - Childhood and youth - Fiction Family life - Fiction Boxing - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Louisville (Ky.) - Fiction


Summary: A fictionalized biography of Muhammad Ali when he was a child.


703593
Becoming Muhammad Ali by Patterson, James 

Paperback(Little, Brown, 2020)

BTSB #: 703593 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.4 MG RC: 8.6 6-8 Lexile: 1010

Genres: Historical Fiction Sports Family Life


Subjects: Ali, Muhammad,|d1942-2016 - Childhood and youth - Fiction Family life - Fiction Boxing - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Louisville (Ky.) - Fiction


Summary: A fictionalized biography of Muhammad Ali when he was a child.


7.37 *

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P08533
Becoming Muhammad Ali : a novel by Patterson, James 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2020)

BTSB #: P08533 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction Sports Family Life


Subjects: Ali, Muhammad,|d1942-2016 - Childhood and youth. - Fiction Boxing - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Family life - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Louisville (Ky.) - Fiction


Summary: A fictionalized biography of Muhammad Ali when he was a child.


52.24 *

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222918
For Lamb by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2023)

BTSB #: 222918 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
F&P: Z+

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Family life - Fiction Lesbians - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Mississippi - Fiction


Summary: An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north--if only he could curb his impulsiveness and rebellious nature.


23.28 *

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781570
Glory be by Scattergood, Augusta 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2012)

BTSB #: 781570 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.3 MG RC: 4.2 3-5 Lexile: 680 F&P: S

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Segregation - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Sisters - Fiction City and town life - Mississippi - Fiction Mississippi - History - Fiction


Summary: In the summer of 1964 Glory's town in Mississippi, beset by racial tension, closes her public pool rather than desegregating it.


6.50 *

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781571
Glory be by Scattergood, Augusta 

Paperback(Scholastic, 2015)

BTSB #: 781571 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.3 MG RC: 4.2 3-5 Lexile: 680 F&P: S

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Segregation - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Sisters - Fiction City and town life - Mississippi - Fiction Mississippi - History - Fiction


Summary: In the summer of 1964 Glory's town in Mississippi, beset by racial tension, closes her public pool rather than desegregating it.


6.55 *

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628123
Goin' someplace special by McKissack, Pat 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001)

BTSB #: 628123 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 4.3 LG RC: 3.3 K-2 Lexile: 730 AD

Genres: Multicultural Historical Fiction


Subjects: Segregation - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Nashville (Tenn.) - Fiction


Summary: In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to the public library.


23.28 *

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230709
Jericho walls by Collier, Kristi 

Paperback(Holt, 2002)

BTSB #: 230709 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-15   
AR: 3.9 MG RC: 3 6-8 Lexile: 580

Subjects: Segregation - Fiction Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Friendship - Fiction South Carolina - Fiction


Summary: In 1957, when her preacher father accepts a post in Jericho, South Carolina, Jo wants to fit in but her growing friendship with a black boy forces her to confront the racism of the South and to reconsider her own values.


9.01 *

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512534
Let the children march by Clark-Robinson, Monica 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)

BTSB #: 512534 Available

Dewey: EAges: 6-9   
AR: 3.8 LG RC: 3.7 3-5 Lexile: 650

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Civil rights demonstrations - Fiction Segregation - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Birmingham (Ala.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: Under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, children and teenagers march against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.


22.58 *

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544528
Meet Miss Fancy by Latham, Irene 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2018)

BTSB #: 544528 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-8   
AR: 3.4 LG Lexile: 570

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Elephants - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Parks - Fiction Birmingham (Ala.) - Fiction


Summary: A story set prior to the Civil Rights Movement about a boy who finds a way to challenge segregation laws.


22.58 *

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214143
Mixed : a colorful story by Chung, Arree 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2018)

BTSB #: 214143 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 2 LG Lexile: 500 AD

Genres: Multicultural


Subjects: Color - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Toleration - Fiction Interracial marriage - Fiction Racially mixed people - Fiction


Summary: Each believing that their hue is the best, the three primary colors live in separate parts of the city until Yellow and Blue meet, fall in love, and decide to mix.


088268
Northbound by Bandy, Michael S. 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 088268 Available

Dewey: EAges: 6-8   
F&P: N

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Railroads - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Segregation - Fiction


Summary: On his first train ride, Michael meets a new friend from the "whites only" car-but find they can hang together for only part of the trip.


6.50 *

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738249
Ruth and The Green Book by Ramsey, Calvin A. 

BTSB Prebound(Carolrhoda, 2010)

BTSB #: 738249 Available

Dewey: EAges: 6-9   
AR: 4.6 LG RC: 5.3 3-5 Lexile: 700 F&P: R

Genres: Multicultural Historical Fiction


Subjects: Segregation - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Automobile travel - Fiction Southern States - History - Fiction


Summary: When Ruth and her parents take a road trip from Chicago to Alabama, they rely on "The Negro Motorist Green Book" to find places that will serve them.


23.28 *

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629617
Sources of light by McMullan, Margaret 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010)

BTSB #: 629617 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.2 MG+RC: 5.5 6-8 Lexile: 840 F&P: W

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Bildungsromans Race relations - Fiction Photography - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Mississippi - Fiction


Summary: Samantha, 14, and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, where she learns photography and sees prejudice and violence of the segregationist South.


21.19 *

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290542
Stella by starlight by Draper, Sharon M. 

Paperback(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016)

BTSB #: 290542 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 9-13   
AR: 4.8 MG RC: 4.5 3-5 Lexile: 740 F&P: W

Subjects: Ku Klux Klan - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Civil rights - Fiction African Americans - Fiction North Carolina - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.


8.19 *

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P03007
Stella by starlight by Draper, Sharon M. 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2015)

BTSB #: P03007 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-13   


Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Ku Klux Klan - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Civil rights - Fiction African Americans - Fiction North Carolina - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.


52.24 *

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661446
We were the fire : Birmingham 1963 by Moses, Shelia P. 

BTSB Prebound(Nancy Paulsen, 2022)

BTSB #: 661446 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.2 MG+ Lexile: 690 F&P: W

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Segregation - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Civil rights demonstrations - Fiction Birmingham (Ala.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: Determined to stand up for their rights, eleven-year-old Rufus, a Black boy, and his friends participate in the 1963 civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama.


22.58 *

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