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Task #22: A children’s or middle grade book (not YA) that has won a diversity award since 2009 #ReadHarder 2019
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Melissa
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4.09 avg rating — 47,598 ratings
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One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 37,490 ratings
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I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
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Debbie Levy (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 6,400 ratings
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P.S. Be Eleven (Gaither Sisters, #2)
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4.07 avg rating — 7,140 ratings
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Gone Crazy in Alabama (Gaither Sisters, #3)
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4.16 avg rating — 4,285 ratings
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Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire (Cilla Lee-Jenkins, 1)
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Susan Tan (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 860 ratings
score: 197,
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Malala's Magic Pencil
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Malala Yousafzai (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 5,377 ratings
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Full Cicada Moon
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4.31 avg rating — 6,152 ratings
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Wonderstruck
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4.17 avg rating — 59,557 ratings
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Zora and Me (Zora and Me, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 1,452 ratings
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Echo
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4.36 avg rating — 46,967 ratings
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Big Wolf & Little Wolf (Big Wolf and Little Wolf #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
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The London Eye Mystery (London Eye Mystery, #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 16,462 ratings
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Heart of a Samurai
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3.95 avg rating — 8,133 ratings
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Lumberjanes: Up All Night (Lumberjanes, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 12,037 ratings
score: 177,
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Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
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G. Neri (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 6,923 ratings
score: 163,
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Ninth Ward
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Jewell Parker Rhodes (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 7,016 ratings
score: 161,
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Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
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4.08 avg rating — 6,038 ratings
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No Crystal Stair
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3.94 avg rating — 1,572 ratings
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When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
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4.01 avg rating — 1,617 ratings
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Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books)
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Patricia Hruby Powell (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 4,545 ratings
score: 137,
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The Crossover
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4.22 avg rating — 68,987 ratings
score: 135,
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As Brave As You
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4.05 avg rating — 8,314 ratings
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
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Angie Thomas (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 999,272 ratings
score: 115,
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2 people voted
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Lily and Dunkin
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Donna Gephart (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 8,357 ratings
score: 109,
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Mission to Space
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3.82 avg rating — 177 ratings
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A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
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4.27 avg rating — 5,751 ratings
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Amina's Voice
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Hena Khan (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 9,706 ratings
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La Princesa and the Pea
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4.23 avg rating — 1,632 ratings
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The Great Wall of Lucy Wu
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Wendy Wan-Long Shang (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 2,903 ratings
score: 97,
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Xander and the Lost Island of Monsters (Momotaro, #1)
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Margaret Dilloway (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 391 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Blackbird Fly
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Erin Entrada Kelly (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,903 ratings
score: 94,
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Fish in a Tree
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Lynda Mullaly Hunt (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 83,672 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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Lucky Broken Girl
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Ruth Behar (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 5,040 ratings
score: 89,
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Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan
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4.19 avg rating — 1,072 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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The Dreamer
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3.98 avg rating — 7,824 ratings
score: 85,
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1 person voted
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The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only #1)
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Katherine Applegate (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 207,618 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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The Red Bandanna: A Life. A Choice. A Legacy.
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4.26 avg rating — 4,094 ratings
score: 79,
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Bird
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Zetta Elliott (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 756 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
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4.12 avg rating — 556 ratings
score: 77,
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The Moon Over Star
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4.11 avg rating — 764 ratings
score: 76,
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We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
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4.27 avg rating — 4,078 ratings
score: 75,
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Becoming Billie Holiday
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4.09 avg rating — 461 ratings
score: 74,
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The Blacker the Berry
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4.26 avg rating — 636 ratings
score: 73,
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Keeping the Night Watch
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4.14 avg rating — 346 ratings
score: 72,
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The Rock and the River (The Rock and the River, #1)
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Kekla Magoon (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 3,576 ratings
score: 71,
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1 person voted
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers
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4.33 avg rating — 717 ratings
score: 70,
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Mare's War
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Tanita S. Davis (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 1,072 ratings
score: 69,
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1 person voted
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My People (Coretta Scott King Award - Illustrator Winner Title
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4.33 avg rating — 1,047 ratings
score: 68,
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Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal
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4.05 avg rating — 3,528 ratings
score: 67,
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Seeds of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World
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Jen Cullerton Johnson (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 735 ratings
score: 66,
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Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix
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4.07 avg rating — 587 ratings
score: 65,
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1 person voted
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Lockdown
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3.77 avg rating — 1,977 ratings
score: 62,
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Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
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4.13 avg rating — 5,561 ratings
score: 61,
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Never Forgotten
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4.25 avg rating — 578 ratings
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The Great Migration: Journey to the North
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4.03 avg rating — 489 ratings
score: 58,
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Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom
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4.09 avg rating — 1,192 ratings
score: 57,
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I Have a Dream
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4.50 avg rating — 3,724 ratings
score: 56,
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H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination
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3.81 avg rating — 555 ratings
score: 55,
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Ellen's Broom (Coretta Scott King Honor - Illustrator Honor Title)
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Kelly Starling Lyons (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 520 ratings
score: 54,
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Each Kindness
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Jacqueline Woodson (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 7,810 ratings
score: 52,
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I, Too, Am America
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4.19 avg rating — 1,735 ratings
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Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner) (Coretta Scott King Award - Author Winner Title
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3.93 avg rating — 306 ratings
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Nelson Mandela
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4.27 avg rating — 3,683 ratings
score: 49,
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Words with Wings
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4.03 avg rating — 3,485 ratings
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Darius & Twig
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3.65 avg rating — 1,116 ratings
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March: Book One (March, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 57,019 ratings
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Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me
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4.45 avg rating — 2,020 ratings
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Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
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4.17 avg rating — 1,542 ratings
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How It Went Down
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Kekla Magoon (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 7,568 ratings
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How I Discovered Poetry
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Marilyn Nelson (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 1,118 ratings
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When I Was the Greatest
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4.01 avg rating — 7,411 ratings
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Firebird
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4.07 avg rating — 2,536 ratings
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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Jacqueline Woodson (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 92,473 ratings
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The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
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4.36 avg rating — 2,069 ratings
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Last Stop on Market Street
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Matt de la Peña (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 18,431 ratings
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All American Boys
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4.29 avg rating — 49,670 ratings
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The Boy in the Black Suit
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8,883 ratings
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X
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3.88 avg rating — 3,599 ratings
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Hoodoo
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Ronald L. Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 1,650 ratings
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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer
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4.31 avg rating — 2,811 ratings
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Trombone Shorty
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4.29 avg rating — 4,971 ratings
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In Plain Sight
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3.61 avg rating — 608 ratings
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Freedom in Congo Square
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4.27 avg rating — 2,825 ratings
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Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
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4.33 avg rating — 2,168 ratings
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The Sun Is Also a Star
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Nicola Yoon (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 356,047 ratings
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In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers
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4.10 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
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3.96 avg rating — 5,831 ratings
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March: Book Three (March, #3)
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4.64 avg rating — 21,537 ratings
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Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
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4.38 avg rating — 4,876 ratings
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Long Way Down
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4.24 avg rating — 135,179 ratings
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Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song
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4.15 avg rating — 378 ratings
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The Stars Beneath Our Feet
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David Barclay Moore (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 7,206 ratings
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Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
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4.35 avg rating — 1,858 ratings
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Piecing Me Together
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Lumberjanes: To the Max Edition, Vol. 5
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4.15 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Three Lucys
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3.98 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Rain Reign
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4.22 avg rating — 24,158 ratings
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How I Became a Ghost
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3.91 avg rating — 2,628 ratings
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Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México
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Adam Fites reads, writes, and makes his home in Seattle. He works in the library of a public school in nearby Kent, where he was the 2023–2024...
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