Sherri L Smith
1) Flygirl
Author
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction account of a group of determined Black Americans who created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago's South Side in the period between World Wars I and II"--
3) Orleans
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Set in a futuristic, hostile Orleans landscape, Fen de la Guerre must deliver her tribe leader's baby over the Wall into the Outer States before her blood becomes tainted with Delta Fever"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they had to endure a totally segregated military in the United States, where they weren't considered smart enough to become military pilots. After acquiring government funding for aviation training, civil rights activists were able to kickstart the first African American military flight program in the US at Tuskegee University in Alabama. While this...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. They couldn't go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, or even use the same bathrooms as white people. But by the 1950s, black people refused to remain second-class citizens and were willing to risk their lives to make a change"--
6) Pearl
Author
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
132 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amy is a thirteen-year-old Japanese-American girl from Hawaii. When her great-grandmother falls ill, Amy travels to visit family in Hiroshima. But when the Japanese navy attacks Pearl Harbor, it becomes impossible for Amy to return to Hawaii. Conscripted into translating English radio transmissions for the Japanese army, Amy struggles with questions of loyalty and fears about her family amidst rumors of internment camps in America. Torn between two...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
107 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the famous Black neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a dazzling time when there was an outpouring of the arts of African Americans--the poetry of Langston Hughes, the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, the sculptures of Augusta Savage, and that brand-new music called jazz as only Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong could play it....
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Reconstruction -- the period after the Civil War -- was meant to give newly freed Black people the same rights as white people. And indeed there were monumental changes once slavery ended -- thriving new Black communities, the first Black members in Congress, and a new sense of dignity for many Black Americans. But this time of hope didn't last long and instead, a deeply segregated United States continued on for another hundred years. Find out what...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
310 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old kamikaze pilot Taro and fifteen-year-old war worker Hana meet in 1945 Japan, he with no future and she, haunted by the past. Includes historical notes and glossary.
10) Lucy the giant
Author
Publisher
Laurel-Leaf Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
217 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lucy, the largest girl in her school, leaves her small Alaska town and her alcoholic father and discovers hardship--and friendship--posing as an adult aboard a commercial fishing boat.
