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CHILDREN’S BOOKS, WEEK OF 2-14-2022

25 women who dared to go / by Allison Lassieur.
25 women who fought back / by Jill Sherman.
25 women who ruled / Rebecca Stanborough.
50 trailblazers of the 50 states : celebrate the lives of inspiring people who paved the way from every state in America! / written by Howard Megdal ; illustrated by Abbey Lossing.
A is for Audra : Broadway’s leading ladies from A to Z / written by John Robert Allman ; illustrated by Peter Emmerich.
Always, Jackie : the true story of a boy and his baseball hero / Ronnie Rabinovitz & J. Patrick Lewis ; illustrated by John Thompson.
American struggle : teens respond to Jacob Lawrence / edited by Chul R. Kim ; writing by teens working with Peabody Essex Museum
Anthology of amazing women : trailblazers who dared to be different / written by Sandra Lawrence ; illustrated by Nathan Collins.
Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream and you / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by James Ransome.
Black women who dared / Naomi M. Moyer.
Buzzing with questions : the inquisitive mind of Charles Henry Turner / Janice N. Harrington ; illustrated by Theodore Taylor III.
Champion : the story of Muhammad Ali / Jim Haskins ; illustrated by Eric Velasquez.
Dark was the night / written by Gary Golio ; illustrated by E.B. Lewis.
Fearless Mary : Mary Fields, American stagecoach driver / Tami Charles ; illustrated by Claire Almon.
Glory : magical visions of Black beauty / Kahran and Regis Bethencourt.
Grandpa stops a war : a Paul Robeson story / Susan Robeson ; illustrated by Rod Brown.
The highest tribute : Thurgood Marshall’s life, leadership, and legacy / written by Kekla Magoon ; illustrated by Laura Freeman.
Ice breaker : how Mabel Fairbanks changed figure skating / Rose Viäna ; illustrated by Claire Almon.
Into the streets : a young person’s visual history of protest in the United States / Marke Bieschke.
Martin & Anne : the kindred spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank / by Nancy Churnin ; illustrated by Yevgenia Nayberg.
One step further : my story of math, the moon, and a lifelong mission / by NASA Computer Katherine Johnson ; with her daughters Joylette Hylick and Katherine Moore ; illustrations by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow.
Patricia’s vision : the doctor who saved sight / by Michelle Lord ; illustrated by Alleanna Harris.
Pigskins to paintbrushes : the story of football-playing artist Ernie Barnes / by Don Tate.
Ready to fly : how Sylvia Townsend became the bookmobile ballerina / story told by Lea Lyon and A. LaFaye ; foreword by Sylvia Townsend ; illustrated by Jessica Gibson.
Runaway : the daring escape of Ona Judge / written by Ray Anthony Shepard ; illustrated by Keith Mallett.
Saving American Beach : the biography of African American environmentalist MaVynee Betsch / written by Heidi Tyline King ; illustrated by Caldecott honoree Ekua Holmes.
Sisters and champions : the story of Venus and Serena Williams / Howard Bryant ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper.
The slave who went to Congress / by Marti Rosner and Frye Gaillard ; illustrated by Jordana Haggard.
A song for Gwendolyn Brooks / Alice Faye Duncan ; illustrated by Xia Gordon.
Sonny’s bridge : jazz legend Sonny Rollins finds his groove / Barry Wittenstein ; illustrated by Keith Mallett.
Swish! : the slam-dunking, alley-ooping, high-flying Harlem Globetrotters / written by Suzanne Slade ; illustrated by Don Tate.
The unstoppable Garrett Morgan : inventor, entrepreneur, hero / by Joan DiCicco ; illustrated by Ebony Glenn.
We are the Supremes / written by Zoèe Tucker ; illustrated by Salini Perera.
We wait for the sun / by Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe ; pictures by Raissa Figueroa.