White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation

"The challenges of identity, assimilation, achievement, and politics that were faced by Lahoma and Cindy are the same challenges our youth are faci...

This book includes an analysis of the most significant Supreme Court cases that have been decided in the ten years since the first edition of the b...

Reducere. In 1975 Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent death partway through their freshman year. Minette Swift had been assertiv...

A controversial, painfully intimate depiction of race in America by the esteemed author of `We were the Mulvaneys', `Blonde' and `The Falls'.

Reducere. In the summer of Woodstock and the moon landing, a traditional Virginia town forces its Black and White students to cross the city and integrate th...

DescriptionA memoir by a disability rights activist Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina La Spina's story--from her early years in her native Sicily, where...

DescriptionA memoir by a disability rights activist Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina La Spina's story--from her early years in her native Sicily, where...

In the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools of the Ame...

Reducere. The unintended consequences of desegregation Commentators from Bill Cosby to Barack Obama have observed the phenomenon of black schoolchildren accu...

Reducere. Babe Walker, center of the universe, is a painstakingly manicured white girl with an expensive smoothie habit, a proclivity for Louboutins, a myste...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Nicole Lynn LewisNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 20Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. Meet Naomi. She is 8 years old and has a mom, a dad, and a baby brother named Johnny. Naomi was born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), and that ma...

DescriptionIn the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools...

Reducere. DescriptionHer published story is well known. But did she tell the whole truth about her ten days in the madhouse? Down to her last dime and offere...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not--could not--live in that tale....

Publisher: Flatiron BooksAuthor(s): Julissa ArceNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 180 x 219 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedescopera...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Matthew F. DelmontIn the decades after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, busing to achieve s...

*** WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 ******WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018***'A masterpiece of history and me...

Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice-until prime minister Muss...

Reducere. Amik tells Moshoom about his wonderful school. Then his grandfather tells him about the residential school he went to, much different from Amik's s...

DescriptionIn 2000, Rebekah Robertson gave birth to twin boys, George and Harry. But as they grew older, their preferences began to show, and by th...

Reducere. DescriptionAn unforgettable memoir about a mixed-race Jewish woman who, after fifteen years of estrangement from her racist great-aunt, helps bring...

As Scarlett's life is torn apart by a vicious grooming gang, she begins to believe this is just how her world should be. In her darkest hour, will ...

Reducere. Pioneer Girl is the true story of Grace McCance Snyder. In 1885, when Grace was three, she and her family became homesteaders on the windswept prai...

Reducere. #1 AMAZON NEW RELEASE & Amazon Bestseller in 7 Categories Listen to Black women and Black girls. Navigating predominantly white institutions (PWI) ...

From Grammy Award-winning singer Ashanti comes an empowering story about a girl who learns to love her unique name.Publisher: HarperCollins Publish...

Reducere. ROMANCE SET IN A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE In post-apocalyptic North America, sexual slavery is legal. Lila Velez desperately wants to lose her virginity be...

Reducere. Based on a true transgender identity journey, the picture book I'm Not a Girl is an empowering story from writers Maddox Lyons and Jessica Verdi ab...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tiffany CatledgeIllustrator: Anissa RiviereLittle Mixie wonders why everyone wants to know WHAT she is. Isn't it obvious? S...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen traditionally white public schools in the South became sites of massive resistance in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Boar...

Alexandra Wilson, a young mixed-race barrister, provides a compelling insight into the systemic racism in our legal system.

Alexandra, a young mixed-race barrister, gives us a fresh perspective on a broken criminal justice system still dominated by a privileged few.

Reducere. What greater praise than to be compared to Judy Blume!--"Each [Blume and Hiranandani] excels in charting the fluctuating discomfort zones of adoles...

Reducere. This heart-felt story tells of a little girl and her nanny, the fun times they have together, and their ways of coping when one of them moves away....

Reducere. In 1858, twelve-year-old Sallie Fox and her family leave Iowa in a wagon train, dreaming of California. They follow the Santa Fe Trail to New Mexic...

DescriptionA 2019 Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner It's been five years since the Sweep disappeared. Orphaned and alone, Nan Sparrow had no other ch...

Based on real events, this is the story of April, a young girl who yearns to attend the new school opening up in her rural Virginia town.

A crime and a six-decade cover-up: the death of a fashion designer in the cesspit of vice and violence that was 1950s London.

About the AuthorBorn and raised in the Deering Center area of Portland, Maine, Kathleen Scanlon Rodriques graduated from St. Joseph's Academy there...

Reducere. It's the future. But only slightly. There are blackouts. No one knows what's causing them, but that doesn't stop people going missing in them. Now ...

Reducere. A rhino is put in a zoo in the middle of a grey city, where all he can do is pace back and forth. He misses his home, his mother, the smell of eart...

Reducere. Mary Anning is probably the world's best-known fossil-hunter. As a little girl, she found a fossilised sea monster, the most important prehistoric ...

Reducere. In 1968, why did a gently raised southern girl quit collage, run away to sea, and join a scurvy crew of pirates, searching for sunken treasure and ...

Real-life 7-year-old Sophia Spencer was bullied for loving bugs until hundreds of women scientists rallied around her. Now Sophie tells her inspiri...

Reducere. DescriptionBen really did not run away from home. He was still in the neighborhood, only it was 125 years earlier in time and the Battle of Gettysb...

The intoxicating history of an extraordinary city and her people--from the medieval kings surrounding Berlin's founding to the world wars, tumult, ...