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Non-Fiction
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Ryan and Jimmy and the Well in Africa That Brought Them Together
Fiction/Non-Fiction
When Ryan was a first-grader, his teacher at school told his class that people in some countries in Africa have to walk as far as twelve miles to get...
Historical fiction
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299 0
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Sahwira: An African Friendship
Fiction/Non-Fiction
At the same moment in time when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is leading peaceful demonstrations in the United States to gain rights for America's African Americans, twelve-year old...
Chick Lit
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Sequins, Secrets, and Silver Linings
Fiction/Non-Fiction
Three junior high BFFs with different dreams – fashion designer, diplomat, actress – move through life and London with only minor panic. But their classmate Crow, a refugee from...
Picture Book
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Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story
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Fiction/Non-Fiction
This book was written especially to celebrate Kwanzaa, the holiday created for African Americans in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karena, a college professor who felt his community needed a...
Picture Book
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355 0
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Sosu's Call
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Fiction/Non-Fiction
In a village on the coast of Ghana, young Sosu sits and waits for life to come to him. Born unable to walk, he is dependent on his family...
Non-Fiction
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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
Fiction/Non-Fiction
“Scientists have shown that people all over the world must learn to like salty tastes, sour tastes, mixed tastes. But from the moment we are born, we crave sweetness.”...
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The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
Fiction/Non-Fiction
Reluctant Reader
This is the heart-rendering and inspiring true story of a dirt poor, creative and imaginative African boy who, with old science textbooks and only the junk available, jerry rigged...
Picture Book
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The Elephant's Wrestling Match
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This is Judy Sierra's very first book, and it represents her love of folklore. Elephant has sent out a challenge to the other animals. "No one can bring me...
Non-Fiction
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209 0
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The Mangrove Tree-Planting Trees to Feed Families
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Fiction/Non-Fiction
This is the true account of how Dr. Gordon Sato helped East African villagers learn to plant mangrove trees to help provide them with food for themselves and their...
Picture Book
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593 0
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The Night Before Christmas
Fiction/Non-Fiction
The words are the same but the setting is Africa!!! On Dasher, On Dancer and the reindeer with their driver, an African American St Nick, are flying down to...
Picture Book
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The Old African
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Fiction/Non-Fiction
Opening this book you are faced with an illustration of a black slave running through his life across a shallow stream with the anger, energy, power and hatred of...
Realistic Fiction
435 1
435 1
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The Other Side of Truth
Fiction/Non-Fiction
This is the powerful story of a young brother and sister who flee Nigeria when their mother is brutally murdered. They go to England and...
Non-Fiction
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87 0
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The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps
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Fiction/Non-Fiction
The title capturesthe essence of Jane Goodall’s life observing nature from childhood on. Goodall’s patience paid off with the trust...
Fiction
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174 0
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The White Giraffe
Fiction/Non-Fiction
Orphaned at the young age of 11, Martine finds herself leaving all she has known to live with a grandmother she has never known and who isn’t excited about...
Realistic Fiction
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This Thing Called the Future
Fiction/Non-Fiction
Reluctant Reader
Khosi wants to do well in school, keep her family safe, escape AIDS, “the disease of these times” in South Africa. Life can be so confusing at 14, as...
Non-Fiction
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130 0
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To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story
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Fiction/Non-Fiction
World travel – that’s the plan for Casey and Steven after graduation. Now, actually getting jobs overseas – that’s another thing... When they met in Morocco...
Picture Book
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Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
Fiction/Non-Fiction
Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, began life in Kenya surrounded by wonderful trees. Sadly, as she grew up she watched all the trees around her being...
Picture Book
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Who's In Rabbit's House
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Rabbit makes a home on a path that leads to the river and every day animal after animal passes by on their way to a drink of water. Then,...
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