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Author: Taylor, Mildred D.
Title: Roll of thunder, hear my cry /
Publisher: Dial Press, c1976.

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View DescriptionA black family living in the South during the 1930s are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children dont understand.

Subjects/Tags: African Americans Fiction.

Author: Hamilton, Virginia.
Title: The planet of Junior Brown /
Publisher: Macmillan, c1971.

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View DescriptionAlready a leader in New Yorks underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.

Subjects/Tags: Friendship Fiction. African Americans Fiction.

Author: Flournoy, Valerie,
Title: The patchwork quilt /
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers, c1985.

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View DescriptionUsing scraps cut from the familys old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother and mother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her familys life.

Subjects/Tags: Quilting Fiction. Grandmothers Fiction. Family life Fiction. African Americans Fiction.

Author: Taylor, Mildred D.
Title: The gold cadillac /
Publisher: Dial Books for Young People, 1987.

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View DescriptionTwo black girls living in the North are proud of their familys beautiful new Cadillac until they take it on a visit to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time.

Subjects/Tags: African Americans Fiction. Prejudices Fiction. Race relations Fiction.

Author: Crutcher, Chris.
Title: The Crazy Horse Electric game /
Publisher: Greenwillow Books, c1987.

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View DescriptionA high school athlete, frustrated at being handicapped after an accident, runs away from home and is helped back to mental and physical health by a black benefactor and the people in a special school where he enrolls.

Subjects/Tags: People with disabilities Fiction. Runaways Fiction. African Americans Fiction.

Author: Hamilton, Virginia.
Title: The mystery of Drear House :the conclusion of the Dies Drear chronicle /
Publisher: Greenwillow Books, c1987.

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View DescriptionA black family living in the house of long-dead abolitionist Dies Drear must decide what to do with his stupendous treasure, hidden for one hundred years in a cavern near their home.

Subjects/Tags: African Americans Fiction.

Author: Tate, Eleanora E.
Title: The secret of Gumbo Grove /
Publisher: F. Watts, 1987.

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View DescriptionWhile helping restore the cemetery of the old Baptist church, eleven-year-old Raisin solves the mystery surrounding the founding of her home town and gains pride in her familys past.

Subjects/Tags: African Americans Fiction. Mystery and detective stories.

Author: Voigt, Cynthia.
Title: Come a stranger /
Publisher: Atheneum, 1986.

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View DescriptionMinas deep love for a grown-up minister drives her to seek a way to give him an unforgettable remembrance, restoration of his faith.

Subjects/Tags: Clergy Fiction. African Americans Fiction.

Author: Stolz, Mary,
Title: Storm in the night /
Publisher: Harper & Row, c1988.

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View DescriptionWhile sitting through a fearsome thunderstorm that has put the lights out, Thomas hears a story from Grandfathers boyhood, when Grandfather was afraid of thunderstorms.

Subjects/Tags: Thunderstorms Fiction. Grandfathers Fiction. Fear Fiction. African Americans Fiction.

Author: Taylor, Mildred D.
Title: The friendship /
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers, c1987.

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View DescriptionFour children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.

Subjects/Tags: African Americans Fiction. Race relations Fiction. Prejudices Fiction.

Author: Steptoe, John,
Title: Baby says /
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1988.

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View DescriptionA little boy figures out how to get along with his baby brother.

Subjects/Tags: Brothers Fiction. Babies Fiction. African Americans Fiction.

Author: Myers, Walter Dean,
Title: Fallen angels /
Publisher: Scholastic Inc., c1988.

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View DescriptionSeventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.

Subjects/Tags: Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975. Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 Fiction. African Americans Fiction.

Author: Myers, Walter Dean,
Title: Scorpions /
Publisher: Harper & Row, c1988.

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View DescriptionAfter reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs.

Subjects/Tags: Gangs Fiction. African Americans Fiction.

Author: Yarbrough, Camille.
Title: Cornrows /
Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, c1979.

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View DescriptionExplains how the hair style of cornrows, a symbol in Africa since ancient times, can today in this country symbolize the courage of outstanding Afro-Americans.

Subjects/Tags: African Americans Fiction. Hair Fiction.

Author: Childress, Alice.
Title: Rainbow Jordan /
Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, c1981.

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View DescriptionHer mother, her foster guardian, and 14-year-old Rainbow comment on the state of things as she prepares to return to a foster home for yet another stay.

Subjects/Tags: Foster home care Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. African Americans Fiction.

Author: Taylor, Mildred D.
Title: Let the circle be unbroken /
Publisher: Dial Press, c1981.

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View DescriptionFour black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive.

Subjects/Tags: African Americans Fiction.

Author: Schroeder, Alan.
Title: Ragtime Tumpie /
Publisher: Joy Street Books, c1989.

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View DescriptionTumpie, a young black girl who will later become famous as the dancer Josephine Baker, longs to find the opportunity to dance amid the poverty and vivacious street life of St. Louis in the early 1900s.

Subjects/Tags: African Americans Fiction. Dance Fiction.

Author: Stock, Catherine.
Title: Halloween monster /
Publisher: Bradbury Press, c1990.

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View DescriptionTommy is reluctant to dress up and go out on Halloween until his mother convinces him that there are no real monsters, ghosts, or witches.

Subjects/Tags: Halloween Fiction. African Americans Fiction.

Author: Ringgold, Faith.
Title: Tar beach /
Publisher: Crown Publishers, 1991.

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View DescriptionA young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Based on the authors quilt painting of the same name.

Subjects/Tags: African Americans Fiction. Flight Fiction. Dreams Fiction.

Author: Johnson, Angela.
Title: When I am old with you /
Publisher: Orchard Books, c1990.

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View DescriptionA child imagines being old with Grandaddy and joining him in such activities as playing cards all day, visiting the ocean, and eating bacon on the porch.

Subjects/Tags: Grandfathers Fiction. Old age Fiction. African Americans Fiction.

Author: Hamilton, Virginia.
Title: Sweet whispers, Brother Rush /
Publisher: Philomel Books, 1982.

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View DescriptionFourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a retarded brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her familys problems.

Subjects/Tags: Family problems Fiction. Single-parent families Fiction. Ghosts Fiction. African Americans Fiction.

Author: Greenfield, Eloise.
Title: First pink light /
Publisher: Published for Black Butterfly Childrens Books by Writers and Readers, c1991.

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View DescriptionA little Black boy determines to stay up all night so he can welcome his father home in the morning.

Subjects/Tags: African Americans Fiction. Fathers and sons Fiction.

Author: McKissack, Pat,
Title: Mirandy and Brother Wind
Publisher: Random House, p1992.

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View DescriptionTo win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner.

Subjects/Tags: Dance Fiction. Winds Fiction. African Americans Fiction.

Author: Myers, Walter Dean,
Title: The outside shot /
Publisher: Delacorte Press, c1984.

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View DescriptionRecruited by a small midwestern college to play basketball, a Harlem boy has many new experiences, including working with a child who needs physical therapy and dealing with corruption in college sports.

Subjects/Tags: African Americans Fiction. Universities and colleges Fiction. Basketball Fiction.

Author: Brooks, Bruce.
Title: The moves make the man :a novel /
Publisher: Harper & Row, c1984.

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View DescriptionA Black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a precarious friendship.

Subjects/Tags: African Americans Fiction. Emotional problems Fiction. Friendship Fiction.

Author: Greenfield, Eloise.
Title: Grandmamas joy /
Publisher: Philomel, c1980.

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View DescriptionWhen Rhondys grandmother is sad after learning that they must find another place to live, Rhondy reminds her that they will still have what is most important--each other.A little girl tries to cheer up her despondent grandmother by reminding her of some very important things.

Subjects/Tags: Grandmothers Fiction. African Americans Fiction. Moving, Household Fiction.

Author: Porter, Connie Rose,
Title: Addys surprise :A Christmas story /
Publisher: Pleasant Co., 1993.

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View DescriptionAddy and her mother forgo their Christmas plans to help the newly freed slaves arriving in Philadelphia during the Civil War.

Subjects/Tags: Christmas stories Mothers and daughters Fiction. African Americans Fiction.

Author: Porter, Connie Rose,
Title: Addy learns a lesson :a school story /
Publisher: Pleasant Co., c1993.

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View DescriptionAfter their escape from North Carolina to Philadelphia in the summer of 1864, Addy and her mother begin their new life as free people as her mother gets a paying job and Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.

Subjects/Tags: African Americans Juvenile fiction. African Americans Fiction. Fugitive slaves Fiction. Friendship Fiction.

Author: Myers, Walter Dean,
Title: Motown and Didi :a love story /
Publisher: Viking Kestrel, 1984.

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View DescriptionMotown and Didi, two teenage loners in Harlem, become allies in a fight against Touchy, the drug dealer whose dope is destroying Didis brother, and find themselves falling in love with each other.

Subjects/Tags: African Americans Fiction. Drug abuse Fiction.

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Title: Calling the wind :twentieth-century African-American short stories /
Publisher: HarperPerennial, c1993.

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Subjects/Tags: Short stories, American African American authors. African Americans Fiction.

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