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121) Cookies & milk
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ellis discovers family secrets, makes new friends, and adjusts to his parents' recent divorce during a hijinks-filled summer helping his father open the world's first chocolate chip cookie store in 1976 Hollywood.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In Maverick, Jason Riley explores the life and ideas of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential and trenchant Black social critics and conservative intellectuals alive today. Riley offers an introduction to Sowell's ideas, from race and inequality to politics, economics, and education. Riley considers Sowell's own history alongside the moments and movements that shaped his thinking"--
123) Monster trouble
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Unafraid of the monsters who interfere with her bedtime, Winifred Schnitzel tries to find a way to scare them away.
124) Ellen's broom
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Ellen has always known that the broom hanging on her family's cabin wall is a special symbol of her parents' wedding during slave days, so she proudly carries it to the courthouse when the marriage becomes legal.
126) Wind flyers
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A boy's love of flight takes him on a journey from the dusty dirt roads of Alabama to the war-torn skies of Europe. Introduces young readers to the contributions of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II.
Author
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In Betty Reid Soskin's 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national epidemic, blackface minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, white women had only just won the right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved until her mid-20s,...