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• Conscious Kids

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• Conscious Kids : Discussing Hard Histories Set :

  Library of Things : Unspeakable, The Tulsa Race Massacre : Hear My Voice, Escucha Mi Voz : When the Schools Shut Down : Born on the Water : Choosing Brave : Stolen Words : An American Story : Fish for Jimmy

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• An American Story

  Alexander, Kwame,

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  Gr. 1-6, #1 New York Times Bestselling and award-winning author of The Undefeated, Kwame Alexander, pens a powerful picture book that tells the story of American slavery through the voice of a teacher struggling to help her students understand its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stolen Words

  Florence, Melanie,

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  Gr. 1-3, A little girl sets out to help her grandfather discover the Cree language that was stolen from him when he was sent away to residential school as a boy.

• Fish for Jimmy

  Based on One Family's Experience in a Japanese American Internment Camp

  Yamasaki, Katie

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  Gr. 1-3, When brothers Taro and Jimmy and their mother are forced to move from their home in California to a Japanese internment camp in the wake of the 1941 Pearl Harbor bombing, Taro daringly escapes the camp to find fresh fish for his grieving…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Choosing Brave

  How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

  Joy, Angela, 1975-

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  Gr. 2-6, A Caldecott-honor winning picture book biography of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement.

• HEAR MY VOICE / ESCUCHA MI VOZ:

  THE TESTIMONIES OF CHILDREN DETAINED AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE UNITED STATES

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  Gr. 3-4, A moving picture book that brings to life the experiences of immigrant children detained at the border between Mexico and the US, featuring their own actual words (from publicly available court documents) assembled to tell one heartbreaking…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The 1619 Project

  Born on the Water

  Hannah-Jones, Nikole,

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  Gr. 1-4, A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a Newbery Honor-winning author present a lyrical picture book that chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the U.S.

• Unspeakable

  the Tulsa Race Massacre

  Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-

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  Gr. 3-6, Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history.

• When the Schools Shut Down

  a Young Girl's Story of Virginia's "lost Generation" and the Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka Decision

  Gladden, Yolanda,

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  Gr. 2-4, An awe-inspiring autobiographical picture book about a young African American girl who lived during the shutdown of public schools in Farmville, Virginia, following the landmark civil rights case Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka.

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