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1) The voting booth

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The first year they are eligible to vote, Marva and Duke meet at their polling place and, over the course of one crazy day, fall in love.--

2) Little & Lion

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Colbert, Brandy

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"Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons"--

3) Black birds in the sky: the story and legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

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Colbert, Brandy

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"In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial...

4) The Blackwoods

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Colbert, Brandy

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Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.

5) Life in motion: an unlikely ballerina

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Copeland, Misty

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In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes history as the only African American soloist dancing with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. But when she first placed her hands on the barre at an after-school community center, no one expected the undersized, anxious thirteen-year-old to become a groundbreaking ballerina. When she discovered ballet, Misty was living in a shabby motel room, struggling with her five siblings for...

6) The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

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Theoharis, Jeanne

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Revisioning history for young people

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The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement and presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks.

7) Toil & trouble: 15 tales of women & witchcraft

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"History is filled with stories of women accused of witchcraft, of fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure--and to kill...This collection reveals a universal truth: there's nothing more powerful than a teenage girl who believes in herself"--Publisher.

8) Brandy Colbert Interview: Professional Book Nerds Interview

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Professional Book Nerds

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Professional Book Nerds Interviews

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Brandy Colbert joins the Professional Book Nerds podcast to discuss Little & Lion, diversity in YA novels, and the importance of being able to find characters like yourself in books.

9) Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

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Zoboi, Ibi

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eBook, Kindle

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Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and Black in America. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.

Black is...sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland,

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10) Black Enough

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Zoboi, Ibi

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Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and Black in America. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.

Black is...sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland,

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Brandy Colbert

1) The voting booth

2) Little & Lion

3) Black birds in the sky: the story and legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

4) The Blackwoods

5) Life in motion: an unlikely ballerina

6) The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

7) Toil & trouble: 15 tales of women & witchcraft

8) Brandy Colbert Interview: Professional Book Nerds Interview

9) Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

10) Black Enough