Myra Faye Turner

Courageous Kids

Ruby Bridges Takes Her Seat (Aug-2022)
The Little Rock Nine Challenge Segregation (Aug-2022)

Max Axiom

Food Scarcity and Hunger (Jan-2022)
Global Water Crisis (Jan-2022)

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  Food Scarcity and Hunger
  

  • Jan-2022
  • / General Fiction
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  Max Axiom
  

  Every year, the world’s farmers produce a lot of food for people to eat. Yet every night, millions of people around the world go to bed hungry. Why are people going without food when the earth is able to produce so much? In this nonfiction grap...

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  Global Water Crisis
  

  • Jan-2022
  • / General Fiction
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  Max Axiom
  

  More than 70 percent of Earth is covered in water. Yet only about 3 percent of it is freshwater that people can use. Every year, parts of the world suffer through severe droughts, and millions of people don’t have easy access to clean drinking ...

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  The Little Rock Nine Challenge Segregation
  

  • Aug-2022
  • / Historical
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  Courageous Kids
  

  In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that schools had to allow Black students to attend previously all-white schools. On September 4, 1957, nine Black students were set to attend Little Rock Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas. But when they arriv...

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  Ruby Bridges Takes Her Seat
  

  • Aug-2022
  • / Historical
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  Courageous Kids
  

  When 6-year-old Ruby Bridges and her mother went to William Frantz Elementary School on November 14, 1960, they arrived to find an angry crowd of white people shouting racist insults. For her safety, Ruby had to be escorted to school every day by U.S...

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  Juneteenth Celebrates Freedom
  

  • Aug-2023
  • / General Fiction
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  In 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation declared that all enslaved people in Confederate States were legally free. But word traveled slowly during the Civil War. It wasn’t until June 19, 1865—more than two months after the war ended—...

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  In Disguise on the Underground Railroad
  

  • Jan-2024
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  Anna Maria Weems was just a teenager when she was given the opportunity to escape her enslaver in the mid-1800s. The journey would be dangerous, but she would have the help of abolitionists along the way. One of those supporters had a novel idea̵...

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  Marian Anderson Sings for a Nation
  

  • Aug-2024
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  On April 9, 1939, Black contralto Marian Anderson stood on a stage before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Facing a crowd of 75,000 people on the National Mall, she began to sing “America, My Country ‘Tis of Thee.” From the ...

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  Hitting Her Way to the Negro Leagues
  

  • Jan-2025
  • / General Fiction
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  In the early 1950s, Toni Stone made history as the first Black woman to play professional baseball. In this action-packed graphic novel, discover Stone’s journey from a young “tomboy” in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to a starting second b...

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