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The Hundred Dresses
Eleanor Estes
Harcourt Paperbacks
Harcourt Paperbacks
Wanda Petronski lives way up in shabby Boggins Heights, and she doesn't have any friends. Every day she wears a faded blue dress, which wouldn't be too much of a problem if she didn't tell her schoolmates that she had a hundred dresses at...
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Monster
Walter Dean Myers
Amistad
Amistad
"Monster" is what the prosecutor called 16-year-old Steve Harmon for his supposed role in the fatal shooting of a convenience-store owner. But was Steve really the lookout who gave the "all clear" to the murderer, or was he just in the wrong...
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American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang
First Second
First Second
Indie graphic novelist Gene Yang's intelligent and emotionally challenging American Born Chinese is made up of three individual plotlines: the determined efforts of the Chinese folk hero Monkey King to shed his humble roots and be revered as a...
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Henry's Freedom Box (Caldecott Honor Book)
Ellen Levine
Scholastic Press
Scholastic Press
Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. When Henry grows up...
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Warriors Don't Cry
Melba Pattillo Beals
Simon Pulse
Simon Pulse
An innocent teenager. An unexpected hero. In 1957, Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of...
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The Other Side
Jacqueline Woodson
Putnam Juvenile
Putnam Juvenile
Clover has always wondered why a fence separates the black side of town from the white side. But this summer when Annie, a white girl from the other side, begins to sit on the fence, Clover grows more curious about the reason why the fence is there...
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The Crayon Box that Talked
Random House Books for Young Readers
Random House Books for Young Readers
"While walking through a toy store, the day before today, I overheard a crayon box with many things to say..." Once upon a time, Shane DeRolf wrote a poem. It was a deceptively simple poem, a charming little piece that celebrates the creation of...
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Copper Sun
Sharon M. Draper
Simon Pulse
Simon Pulse
Stolen from her village, sold to the highest bidder, fifteen-year-old Amari has only one thing left of her own -- hope. Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and living in a beautiful...
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Stumptown Kid
Carol Gorman, Ron J. Findley
Peachtree Publishers
Peachtree Publishers
This dramatic and moving story set in the days of the Negro Leagues illustrates the true meanings of friendship, prejudice, and heroism. Charlie Nebraska wants two things he can't get: to make the local Wildcats baseball team and to have...
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