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- Great Books for Middle Graders 2020
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- Civil Rights Resources for Teens
- Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominees 2019-20
- African American History & Heritage for Young Children
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Black Lives Matter for Middle Graders
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
by Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson editors
What do we tell our children when the world seems bleak, and prejudice and racism run rampant? 50 diverse creators lend voice and comfort to young activists.
View on CountyCatThis Book Is Anti-Racist
by Tiffany Jewell; illustrated by Aurélia Durand
Learn about social identities, the history of racism and resistance against it, and how you can use your anti-racist lens and voice to move the world toward equity and liberation.
View on CountyCatNew Kid
by Jerry Craft
Seventh grader Jordan Banks makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, and finds himself torn between two worlds.
View on CountyCatBlack Girl Magic
by Mahogany L. Browne; illustrated by Jess X. Snow.
This poem considers pressures that African American women experience, inspiring readers to be proud of their culture and who they are.
View on CountyCatThe Usual Suspects
by Maurice Broaddus
Thelonius Mitchell, a special education student known for his pranks and tired of being labeled, is falsely accused of hiding a gun at a neighborhood hangout and tries to clear his name.
View on CountyCatGhost Boys
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys.
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A Good Kind of Trouble
by Lisa Moore Ramée
Shayla starts wearing an armband to school to support the Black Lives Matter movement, and she is forced to choose between her education and her identity.
View on CountyCatBrown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
Woodson shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South.
View on CountyCatClean Getaway
by Nic Stone
An 11-year-old boy confronts the realities of race relations, past and present, and his unconventional grandmother’s mysterious agenda during a road trip through the once-segregated American South.
View on CountyCatThe Only Black Girls in Town
by Brandy Colbert
In a predominately white California beach town, the only two black seventh-graders find hidden journals that uncover family secrets and speak to race relations in the past.
View on CountyCatBlack Brother, Black Brother
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
A black boy at an elitist prep school is unfairly suspended in the wake of an incident involving the school bully, whom he tries to defeat in a fencing competition.
View on CountyCatOne Last Word : Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
by Nikki Grimes; illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera
In this collection of poetry, Nikki Grimes looks afresh at the poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
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