Kwame Alexander

Pristine condition aside from the slight faded pages on top (see photo). 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Iowa

A middle-grade novel in verse follows the experiences of twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan, who struggle with challenges on and off the court while their father ignores his declining health. 20,000 first printing.

The Crossover

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

"A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school"--

Look Both Ways

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Jason Reynolds

Ohio

Maryland

Renee Watson

Illinois

2018 Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner "Timely and timeless." --Jacqueline Woodson "Important and deeply moving." --John Green Acclaimed author Renee Watson offers a powerful story about a girl striving for success in a world that too often seems like it's trying to break her. Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every opportunity that comes her way. And Jade has: every day she rides the bus away from her friends and to the private school where she feels like an outsider, but where she has plenty of opportunities. But some opportunities she doesn't really welcome, like an invitation to join Women to Women, a mentorship program for "at-risk" girls. Just because her mentor is black and graduated from the same high school doesn't mean she understands where Jade is coming from. She's tired of being singled out as someone who needs help, someone people want to fix. Jade wants to speak, to create, to express her joys and sorrows, her pain and her hope. Maybe there are some things she could show other women about understanding the world and finding ways to be real, to make a difference. NPR's Best Books of 2017 A 2017 New York Public Library Best Teen Book of the Year Chicago Public Library's Best Books of 2017 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2017 Kirkus Reviews' Best Teen Books of 2017 2018 Josette Frank Award Winner

Piecing Me Together

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Christopher Paul Curtis

(Newbery Medal Winner)

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H. E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

Bud, Not Buddy

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Martin Luther King

Coretta Scott King

HC with dust jacket. DJ appears laminated but the lamination is starting to separate. Light edge wear. Tight binding. Pages in very good condition.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

I Have a Dream

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Slight edge wear. Tight binding. Pages in very good condition. 

Freedom in Congo Square 

Toyomi Igus

Former library copy. It has a clear cover over it. With stickers barcode and stamps. See photos for details.

This Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award-winning title celebrates African-American music by tracing the progression of black music from its traditional roots in Africa to contemporary hip hop. Full color.

I See the Rhythm

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Pennsylvania

Cozbi A. Cabrera

Michigan

A Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Honor Book Mama’s love is brighter than the sun, even on the rainiest of days. This celebration of a mother-daughter relationship is perfect for sharing with little ones! On a rainy day when the house smells like cinnamon and Papa and Luca are still asleep, when the clouds are wearing shadows and the wind paints the window with beads of water, I want to be everywhere Mama is. With lyrical prose and a tender touch, the Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Honor Book Mama and Me is an ode to the strength of the bond between a mother and a daughter as they spend a rainy day together.

Me and Mama

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Utah

Nikki Grimes

The beloved and award-winning novel now available in a new format with a great new cover!

When Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class, some of his classmates clamor to read their poems aloud too. Soon they're having weekly poetry sessions and, one by one, the eighteen students are opening up and taking on the risky challenge of self-revelation. There's Lupe Alvarin, desperate to have a baby so she will feel loved. Raynard Patterson, hiding a secret behind his silence. Porscha Johnson, needing an outlet for her anger after her mother OD's. Through the poetry they share and narratives in which they reveal their most intimate thoughts about themselves and one another, their words and lives show what lies beneath the skin, behind the eyes, beyond the masquerade.

Bronx Masquerade

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This is a brand new Scholastic paperback.

One Crazy Summer

North Carolina

The Red Rose Box

Texas

Barbara Reynolds

Kentucky

Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
The Washington Post's Books to Read in 2017
USA Today, "New and Noteworthy"
Read it Forward, Favorite Reads of January 2017
A Parade Magazine Pick

"This book is distinctly Coretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous, in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture."--New York Times Book Review

"Eloquent . . . inspirational"--USA Today

The life story of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center), and singular twentieth-century American civil and human rights activist--as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds.

Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. While enrolled as one of the first black scholarship students recruited to Antioch College, she became politically and socially active and committed to the peace movement. As a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music, determined to pursue her own career as a concert singer, she met Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister insistent that his wife stay home with the children. But in love and devoted to shared Christian beliefs as well as shared racial and economic justice goals, she married Dr. King, and events promptly thrust her into a maelstrom of history throughout which she was a strategic partner, a standard bearer, and so much more.

As a widow and single mother of four, she worked tirelessly to found and develop The King Center as a citadel for world peace, lobbied for fifteen years for the US national holiday in honor of her husband, championed for women's, workers' and gay rights and was a powerful international voice for nonviolence, freedom and human dignity.

Coretta's is a love story, a family saga, and the memoir of an extraordinary black woman in twentieth-century America, a brave leader who, in the face of terrorism and violent hatred, stood committed, proud, forgiving, nonviolent, and hopeful every day of her life.

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Kwame Alexander

The Crossover

Jason Reynolds; Alexander Nabaum (Illustrator)

Look Both Ways

Jason Reynolds

Look Both Ways

Jason Reynolds

Look Both Ways

Renee Watson

Piecing Me Together

Christopher Paul Curtis

Bud, Not Buddy

Martin Luther King; Coretta Scott King

I Have a Dream

Carole Boston Weatherford and R. Gregory Christie

Freedom in Congo Square

Jason Reynolds

Look Both Ways

Toyomi Igus

I See the Rhythm

Jason Reynolds

Look Both Ways

Cozbi A. Cabrera

Me and Mama

Christopher Paul Curtis

Bud, Not Buddy

Jason Reynolds

Look Both Ways

Jason Reynolds; Alexander Nabaum (Illustrator)

Look Both Ways

Nikki Grimes

Bronx Masquerade

Rita Williams-Garcia

One Crazy Summer

Jason Reynolds

Look Both Ways

Brenda Woods

The Red Rose Box

Jason Reynolds

Look Both Ways

Coretta Scott King; Barbara Reynolds

My Life, My Love, My Legacy

Jason Reynolds

Look Both Ways

Jason Reynolds

Look Both Ways

Jason Reynolds

Look Both Ways