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NoveList K-8 Plus

Provides book recommendations specifically for younger readers. Kids can use it to find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. Parents, teachers, and librarians can find tools to teach with books and engage young readers.
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African American Collection at Gordon Avenue

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Black women in America

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Ebony pictorial history of Black America

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A hard road to glory : a history of the African-American athlete
Arthur Ashe

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Charlottesville, an African-American community
Agnes Cross-White

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Works
Richard Wright

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Women, culture & politics
Angela Y Davis

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book cover for Encyclopedia of African American women writers

Encyclopedia of African American women writers

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book cover for The life of Langston Hughes

The life of Langston Hughes
Arnold Rampersad

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Pride of family : four generations of American women of color
Carole Ione

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book cover for What manner of man : a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

What manner of man : a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lerone Bennett

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Daddy was a number runner
Louise Meriwether

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James Van DerZee : the picture-takin' man
James Haskins

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My bondage and my freedom
Frederick Douglass

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The diary of Latoya Hunter : my first year in Junior High
Latoya Hunter

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A pictorial history of Blackamericans
Langston Hughes

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book cover for Ar'n't I a woman? : female slaves in the plantation South

Ar'n't I a woman? : female slaves in the plantation South
Deborah G White

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The sweeter the juice
Shirlee Taylor Haizlip

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The death of rhythm & blues
Nelson George

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The collected last plays
Lorraine Hansberry

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The collected poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar

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I've known rivers : lives of loss and liberation
Sara Lightfoot-Lawrence

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book cover for Life on the color line : the true story of a white boy who discovered he was black

Life on the color line : the true story of a white boy who discovered he was black
Gregory Howard Williams

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Centers of the self : stories by black American women from the nineteenth century to the present

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Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia
Ervin L Jordan

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book cover for The preacher King : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the word that moved America

The preacher King : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the word that moved America
Richard Lischer

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Iron City : a novel
Lloyd L Brown

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Mumbo jumbo
Ishmael Reed

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Silver rights
Constance Curry

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Making Malcolm : the myth and meaning of Malcolm X
Michael Eric Dyson

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Virginia Hamilton
Nina Mikkelsen

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Hippocrene U.S.A. guide to historic Black South : historical sites, cultural centers, and musical happenings of the African-American South
James Haskins

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The selected poems of Nikki Giovanni.
Nikki Giovanni

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Historic speeches of African Americans

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book cover for My soul's high song : the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance

My soul's high song : the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance
Countee Cullen

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book cover for Keeping faith : philosophy and race in America

Keeping faith : philosophy and race in America
Cornel West

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The Garden thrives : twentieth-century African-American poetry

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Invisible man
Ralph Ellison

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An easy burden : the civil rights movement and the transformation of America
Andrew Young

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1001 things everyone should know about African-American history
Jeffrey C Stewart

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Tuskegee's heroes : featuring the aviation art of Roy LaGrone
Charlie Cooper

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Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam
James Haskins

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Langston Hughes
Milton Meltzer

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Pillar of fire : America in the King years, 1963-65
Taylor Branch

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Honey, hush! : an anthology of African American women's humor

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book cover for Interiors : a black woman's healing in progress

Interiors : a black woman's healing in progress
Iyanla Vanzant

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book cover for King of the world : Muhammad Ali and the rise of an American hero

King of the world : Muhammad Ali and the rise of an American hero
David Remnick

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book cover for Many thousands gone : the first two centuries of slavery in North America

Many thousands gone : the first two centuries of slavery in North America
Ira Berlin

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book cover for Blues for all the changes : new poems

Blues for all the changes : new poems
Nikki Giovanni

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book cover for Divine daughters : liberating the power and passion of women's voices

Divine daughters : liberating the power and passion of women's voices
Rachel L Bagby

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The Black New Yorkers : the Schomburg illustrated chronology
Howard Dodson

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Michael Jordan speaks : lessons from the world's greatest champion
Michael Jordan

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The Cornel West reader
Cornel West

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book cover for Sister days : 365 inspired moments in African American women's history

Sister days : 365 inspired moments in African American women's history
Janus Adams

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W. E. B. Du Bois : the fight for equality and the American century, 1919-1963
David L Lewis

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Black workers remember : an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle
Michael K Honey

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Rosa Parks
Douglas Brinkley

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book cover for The messenger : the rise and fall of Elijah Muhammad

The messenger : the rise and fall of Elijah Muhammad
Karl Evanzz

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The other side of color : African American art in the collection of Camille O. and William H. Crosby, Jr.
David C Driskell

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Sister circle : Black women and work

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Black theater, U.S.A. : forty-five plays by Black Americans, 1847-1974
James V Hatch

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book cover for The unknown soldiers : Black American troops in World War I

The unknown soldiers : Black American troops in World War I
Arthur E Barbeau

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book cover for The books of American Negro spirituals, including The book of American Negro spirituals and The second book of Negro spirituals

The books of American Negro spirituals, including The book of American Negro spirituals and The second book of Negro spirituals
James Weldon Johnson

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The content of our character : a new vision of race in America
Shelby Steele

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Black olympian medalists
James A Page

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The Black 100 : a ranking of the most influential African-Americans, past and present
Columbus Salley

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Before freedom, when I just can remember : twenty-seven oral histories of former South Carolina slaves

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Black women writers at work

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book cover for Breaking barriers : a memoir

Breaking barriers : a memoir
Carl Thomas Rowan

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The poems of Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley

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Forged in battle : the Civil War alliance of Black soldiers and white officers
Joseph T Glatthaar

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Simple speaks his mind
Langston Hughes

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Afro-American writing : an anthology of prose and poetry

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book cover for Making civil rights law : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961

Making civil rights law : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961
Mark Tushnet

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Weevils in the wheat : interviews with Virginia ex-slaves

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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
Frederick Douglass

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African American literature : an anthology of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama

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The color of their skin : education and race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-89
Robert A Pratt

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In times like these
Charles Haden

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Pryor convictions : and other life sentences
Richard Pryor

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African American historic places

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book cover for Not so simple : the "Simple" stories by Langston Hughes

Not so simple : the "Simple" stories by Langston Hughes
Donna Sullivan Harper

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book cover for In their footsteps : the American visions guide to African-American heritage sites

In their footsteps : the American visions guide to African-American heritage sites
Henry Chase

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The Negro cowboys
Philip Durham

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South to a very old place
Albert Murray

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I've been to the mountaintop
Martin Luther King

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book cover for Our family table : recipes & food memories from African-American life models

Our family table : recipes & food memories from African-American life models

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book cover for The substance of things hoped for : a memoir of African-American faith

The substance of things hoped for : a memoir of African-American faith
Samuel D Proctor

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The future of the race
Henry Louis Gates

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book cover for One more river to cross : an African American photograph album

One more river to cross : an African American photograph album
Walter Dean Myers

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book cover for Maggie's American dream : the life and times of a Black family

Maggie's American dream : the life and times of a Black family
James P Comer

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"We specialize in the wholly impossible" : a reader in Black women's history

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A Rock against the wind : African-American poems and letters of love and passion

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book cover for Anti-racism in U.S. history : the first two hundred years

Anti-racism in U.S. history : the first two hundred years
Herbert Aptheker

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book cover for No free ride : from the mean streets to the mainstream

No free ride : from the mean streets to the mainstream
Kweisi Mfume

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Black profiles in courage : a legacy of African American achievement
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Black intellectuals : race and responsibility in American life
William M Banks

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Speaking truth to power
Anita Hill

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Rhapsodies in black : art of the Harlem Renaissance

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The Soul of success : inspiring quotations for entrepreneurs

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Black leaders of the twentieth century

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