Any small goodness : a novel of the barrio

Award-winning picture-book author Tony Johnston presents the poignant story of a loving Mexican-American family in East L.A. in her first novel for young readers. Los Angeles is a place of movie s…

Gilded

Sixteen-year-old Jae Hwa Lee is a Korean-American girl with a black belt, a deadly proclivity with steel-tipped arrows, and a chip on her shoulder the size of Korea itself. When her widowed dad upr…

The captive

"Modeled after an actual slave narrative, this moving first-person tale follows 12-year-old Kofi from his kidnapping in West Africa to his cruel enslavement in Massachusetts and his subsequent free…

Class president

It's election time, and Julio is pretty sure he can't win, especially not against smart, perfect, popular Cricket. Lucas, on the other hand, might stand a chance, and so Julio concentrates his effo…

Jackie and me : a baseball card adventure

With more than 2 million books sold, the Baseball Card Adventures bring the greatest players in history to life! Like every other kid in his class, Joe Stoshack has to write a report on an Afri…

Koya DeLaney and the good girl blues

Little Koya Delaney has a knack for hiding what she truly feels with her infectious laugh that leaves everyone happy - except herself. Koya is upset by an argument that her sister Loritha had with …

Let's read about.... Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks believed in herself and worked hard to succeed from the time she was a girl. Read about Rosa, a young woman who helped change history when she fought for black people's equal rights.

Freedom walkers : the story of the Montgomery bus boycott

A riveting account of the civil rights boycott that changed history by the foremost author of history for young people. Now a classic, Freedman’s book tells the dramatic stories of the heroes …

Philip Hall likes me. I reckon maybe

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

0439168287

Collation

135 pages : illustration ; 19 cm

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Call Number

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The skin I'm in

Maleeka suffers every day from the taunts of the other kids in her class. If they're not getting at her about her homemade clothes or her good grades, it's about her dark, black skin. When a new …