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Black History Month Reading Challenge
One Dozen Who Care, Inc., in collaboration with Nantahala Regional Library is hosting an intergenerational reading challenge for children in kindergarten through 12th grade during the month of February. This event promotes picture books, biographies, novels, and history books in the Purel Miller African American Book Collection. Named for a beloved former Andrews resident, the Collection encourages greater cultural understanding and is currently housed at Andrews Public Library.
Children are asked to read and review age appropriate books in the Miller Collection. Children should read their books with or to an adult older than eighteen. For each review, the children will receive $5 with a maximum of $20 awarded per child.
Reviews must be submitted no later than Saturday, March 5 to the following email address: pmcreadingchallenge@gmail.com. Incentives will be awarded during the week of March 7-11. For more information about the reading challenge, contact Bridget at 828-837-2025, Janell at 305-467-3478, or visit https://www.nrlibrary.org/pmc.
Children's Titles in the Purel Miller Collection
Scroll through the titles in the table below:
Title | Author | Call Number |
|---|---|---|
Tristan Strong Destroys the World | Mbalia, Kwame | J F MBA |
Tristan Strong Keeps Punching | Mbalia, Kwame | J F MBA |
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky | Mbalia, Kwame | J F MBA |
Ty's travels : all aboard! | Lyons, Kelly Starling | ER LYO |
Up in the Air: The Story of Bessie Coleman | Hart, Philip S. | ODWC J B COLEMAN |
War girls | Onyebuchi, Tochi | YA F ONY |
Ways to Grow Love | Watson, Renée | J F WAT |
Ways to Make Sunshine | Watson, Renée | J F WAT |
We are not yet equal : understanding our racial divide | Anderson, Carol | YA 323.1196 AND |
We are the ship : the story of Negro league baseball | Nelson, Kadir | ODWC J 796.3576 NEL |
We rise, we resist, we raise our voice | none | J 303.3 WE |
We've got a job : the 1963 Birmingham Children's March | Levinson, Cynthia | ODWC J 323.1196 LEV |
What do you do with a voice like that? | Barton, Chris | J 328.7309 BAR |
What is given from the heart | McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017 | ODWC E MCK |
When stars are scattered | Jamieson, Victoria | ODWC J B MOHAMED |
White Lilacs | Meyer, Carolyn | ODWC J MEY |
Whoopi Goldberg: Entertainer | Blue, Rose and Corinne J. Naden | ODWC J B GOLDBERG |
William Still and his freedom stories : the father of the Underground Railroad | Tate, Don | J B STILL |
Woke : a young poet's call to justice | Browne, Mahogany L. | J 811.608 BRO |
You matter | Robinson, Christian | ODWC E ROB |
Young, gifted and black | Wilson, Jamia | J 920 WIL |
Your name is a song | Thompkins-Bigelow, Jamilah | ODWC E THO |
Zeely. | Hamilton, Virginia | ODWC J HAM |
Zora & me : the cursed ground | Simon, T. R. | J F SIM |
Sprouting wings : the flying hobos : the true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the United States | Jaggar, Louisa | J B BANNING |
Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you | Kendi, Ibram X. | ODWC YA 305.8009 KEN |
Stamped (for kids) : racism, antiracism, and you | Cherry-Paul, Sonja | J 305.8009 CHE |
Stars and sparks on stage | Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills) | ODWC J DRA |
Starstruck : the cosmic journey of Neil deGrasse Tyson | Krull, Kathleen | J B TYSON |
Stone mirrors : the sculpture and silence of Edmonia Lewis | Atkins, Jeannine | YA F ATK |
Sunny | Reynolds, Jason | J F REY |
Swing | Alexander, Kwame | YA F ALE |
Swish! : the slam-dunking, alley-ooping, high-flying Harlem Globetrotters | Slade, Suzanne | ODWC J 796.3236 SLA |
Take a walk in their shoes | Turner, Glennette Tilley | ODWC J 920 TUR |
Take back the block | Giles, Chrystal D | J F GIL |
Thank you, Omu! | Mora, Oge | ODWC E MOR |
The ABCs of Black history | Cortez, Rio | J 973.0496 COR |
The amazing age of John Roy Lynch | Barton, Chris | J B LYNCH |
The awakening of Malcolm X | Shabazz, Ilyasah | YA F SHA |
The Backyard Animal Show | Draper, Sharon M | ODWC J DRA |
The Buried Bones Mystery | Draper, Sharon M | ODWC J DRA |
The cost of knowing | Morris, Brittney | YA F MOR |
The crossover | Alexander, Kwame | ODWC J F ALE |
The friends. | Guy, Rosa | ODWC YA GUY |
The hate u give | Thomas, Angie | ODWC YA THO |
The highest tribute : Thurgood Marshall's life, leadership, and legacy | Magoon, Kekla | J B MARSHALL |
The journey of little Charlie | Curtis, Christopher Paul | J CUR |
The leaving morning | Johnson, Angela, 1961- | ODWC E JOH |
The legendary Miss Lena Horne | Weatherford, Carole Boston | J B HORNE |
The meet-cute project | Richardson, Rhiannon | YA F RIC |
The old truck | Pumphrey, Jarrett | ODWC E PUM |
The Parker inheritance | Johnson, Varian | J F JOH |
The power of her pen : the story of groundbreaking journalist Ethel L. Payne | Cline-Ransome, Lesa | J B PAYNE |
The roots of rap : 16 bars on the 4 pillars of hip-hop | Weatherford, Carole Boston | J 782.4216 WEA |
The snowy day. | Keats, Ezra Jack | ODWC E KEA |
The space mission adventure | Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills) | ODWC J DRA |
The undefeated | Alexander, Kwame | ODWC J 811.6 ALE |
The vast wonder of the world : the life of scientist Ernest Everett Just | Mangal, Mélina | J B JUST |
The wall of fame game | Allen, Crystal | ODWC J ALL |
The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 : a novel | Curtis, Christopher Paul | ODWC J CUR |
The youngest marcher : the story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist | Levinson, Cynthia | ODWC J B HENDRICKS |
This promise of change : one girl's story in the fight for school equality | Boyce, Jo Ann Allen | J B BOYCE |
Three Cheers for Keisha | Reed, Teresa | ODWC J REE |
Tina Turner | Hasday, Judy L. | ODWC J B TURNER |
Tiny stitches : the life of medical pioneer Vivien Thomas | Hooks, Gwendolyn | ODWC J B THOMAS |
Toni Morrison: Author | Century, Douglas | ODWC J B MORRISON |
Nat Turner: Slave Revolt Leader | Bisson, Terry | ODWC J B TURNER |
Never caught : the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave Ona Judge | Dunbar, Erica Armstrong | J B JUDGE |
Nina : a story of Nina Simone | Todd, Traci N. | J B SIMONE |
No small potatoes : Junius G. Groves and his kingdom in Kansas | Bolden, Tonya | J B GROVES |
Not my idea : a book about whiteness | Higginbotham, Anastasia | ODWC J 305.8 HIG |
Off to see the sea | Grimes, Nikki | E GRI |
On the come up | Thomas, Angie | YA F THO |
One crazy summer | Williams-Garcia, Rita | J F WIL |
One last word : wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance | Grimes, Nikki | J 811.54 GRI |
One plastic bag : Isatou Ceesay and the recycling women of the Gambia | Paul, Miranda | ODWC J 363.728 PAU |
One step further : my story of math, the moon, and a life-long mission | Johnson, Katherine G. | J B JOHNSON |
Oona | DiPucchio, Kelly | E DIP |
Opening the road : Victor Hugo Green and his Green Book | Dawson, Keila V. | J 305.896 DAW |
Opposite of always | Reynolds, Justin A. | YA F REY |
Oprah Winfrey: Entertainer | Nicholson, Lois P. | ODWC J B WINFREY |
Out of darkness | Pérez, Ashley Hope | YA F PER |
Pathfinders : the journeys of 16 extraordinary Black souls | Bolden, Tonya | J 920 BOL |
Patina | Reynolds, Jason | J F REY |
Piecing me together | Watson, Renée | YA F WAT |
Pies from nowhere : how Georgia Gilmore sustained the Montgomery bus boycott | Romito, Dee | J B GILMORE |
Ralph Ellison: Author | Bishop, Jack | ODWC J B ELLISON |
Rebel sisters | Onyebuchi, Tochi | YA F ONY |
Rebound | Alexander, Kwame | J F ALE |
Resist : 35 profiles of ordinary people who rose up against tyranny and injustice | Chambers, Veronica | ODWC YA 303.48 CHA |
Respect : Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul | Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- | ODWC J B FRANKLIN |
Rhythm Ride : A Road Trip Through The Motown Sound | Pinkney, Andrea Davis | J 781.644 PIN |
Richard Wright: Author | Urban, Joan | ODWC J B WRIGHT |
Ruby Bridges | Magoon, Kekla | J B BRIDGES |
Runaway : the daring escape of Oney Judge | Shepard, Ray Anthony | J B JUDGE |
Saturday | Mora, Oge | ODWC E MOR |
Schomburg : the man who built a library | Weatherford, Carole Boston | J B SCHOMBURG |
Serena says | Davis, Tanita S. | J F DAV |
Shadows of Caesar's Creek | Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills) | ODWC J DRA |
She was the first! : the trailblazing life of Shirley Chisholm | Russell-Brown, Katheryn | J B CHISHOLM |
Slay | Morris, Brittney | ODWC YA MOR |
So many beginnings : a Little Women remix | Morrow, Bethany C. | YA F MOR |
So tall within : Sojourner Truth's long walk toward freedom | Schmidt, Gary D. | J B TRUTH |
Sojourner Truth : ain't I a woman? | McKissack, Pat, 1944- | ODWC J B TRUTH MCK |
Solo | Alexander, Kwame | YA F ALE |
Song in a Rainstorm: The Story of Musical Prodigy Thomas "blind Tom" Wiggins | Armand, Glenda | ODWC J B WIGGINS |
Soul looks back in wonder | ODWC J 811.58 FEE | |
Sports hero: Kareem Abdul Jabbar; the story of Lew Alcindor, | Burchard, Marshall. | ODWC J B ABDUL-JABBAR |
Leon's story | Tillage, Leon, 1936- | ODWC J 975.655 TIL |
Let 'er buck! : George Fletcher, the people's champion | Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux | J B FLETCHER |
Let it shine : stories of Black women freedom fighters | Pinkney, Andrea Davis | ODWC J 920 PIN |
Let the circle be unbroken | Taylor, Mildred D. | ODWC YA TAY |
Let's clap, jump, sing & shout; dance, spin & turn it out! : games, songs & stories from an African American childhood | McKissack, Patricia | J 305.896 MCK |
Lewis Latimer: Scientist | Norman, Winifred Latimer and Lily Patterson | ODWC J B LATIMER |
Libba : the magnificent musical life of Elizabeth Cotton | Veirs, Laura | J B COTTON |
Libby loves science : mix and measure | Derting, Kimberly | ER DER |
Lift as you climb : the story of Ella Baker | Powell, Patricia Hruby | J B BAKER |
Lifting as we climb : black women's battle for the ballot box | Dionne, Evette | YA 323.34 DIO |
Lily Brown's paintings | Johnson, Angela, 1961- | ODWC E JOH |
Little leaders : bold women in black history | Harrison, Vashti | J 920 HAR |
Long journey home : stories from Black history | Lester, Julius | ODWC YA LES |
Long way down | Reynolds, Jason | YA F REY |
Long way down : the graphic novel | Reynolds, Jason | YA GRAPHIC REY |
Look Both Ways: a tale told in ten blocks | Reynolds, Jason | J F REY |
Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices go tell it! : a monologue novel | Pinkney, Andrea Davis | J F PIN |
Lost in the Tunnel of Time | Draper, Sharon M | ODWC J DRA |
Louis Armstrong: Musician | Tanenhaus, Sam | ODWC J B ARMSTRONG |
Love is a revolution | Watson, Renée | YA F WAT |
Loving vs. Virginia : a documentary novel of the landmark civil rights case | Powell, Patricia Hruby | YA F POW |
Lu | Reynolds, Jason | J F REY |
M.C. Higgins, the great | Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002 | ODWC J HAM |
Madam C. J. Walker: Entrepreneur | Bundles, A'Lelia Perry | ODWC J B WALKER |
Magnificent Homespun Brown : A Celebration | Doyon, Samara Cole | ODWC E DOY |
Marley Dias gets it done : and so can you! | Dias, Marley | J 305.2308 DIA |
Martin Luther King Jr. : great lives in graphics | none | J B KING |
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil Rights Leader | Jakoubek, Robert | ODWC J B KING |
Martin rising : requiem for a King | Pinkney, Andrea Davis | J 811.6 PIN |
Mary McLeod Bethune: Educator | Halasa, Malu | ODWC J B BETHUNE |
Matthew Henson: Explorer | Gilman, Michael | ODWC J B HENSON |
Maya and the return of the godlings | Barron, Rena | J F BAR |
Maya and the rising dark | Barron, Rena | J F BAR |
Maya Angelou: Author | Shapiro, Miles | ODWC J B ANGELOU |
Me (Moth) | McBride, Amber | YA F MCB |
Miami Jackson gets it straight | McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017 | ODWC J MCK |
Michael Jordan: Basketball Great | Dolan, Sean | ODWC J B JORDAN |
Muhammad Ali: Heavyweight Champion | Rummel, Jack. | ODWC J B ALI |
Muted | Charles, Tami | YA F CHA |
My brother Charlie | Peete, Holly Robinson, 1964- | ODWC E PEE |
My pen | Myers, Christopher | ODWC E MYE |
Mya in the middle | Allen, Crystal | ODWC J ALL |
Gone Crazy in Alabama | Williams-Garcia, Rita | J F WIL |
Gordon Parks : how the photographer captured black and white America | Weatherford, Carole Boston | J B PARKS |
Hair love | Cherry, Matthew A. | ODWC E CHE |
Hammering for freedom : the William Lewis story | Hubbard, Rita L. | J B LEWIS |
Handimals : animals in art and nature | Daniele, Guido, 1950- | ODWC J 704.9 DAN |
Happily ever afters | Bryant, Elise | YA F BRY |
Harbor me | Woodson, Jacqueline | J F WOO |
Harriet Tubman | Pinkney, Andrea Davis | J B TUBMAN |
Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter | King, Shani Mahir | J 323.1196 KIN |
He's got the whole world in his hands | Nelson, Kadir | ODWC E NEL |
Henry Aaron: Baseball Great | Rennert, Richard Scott | ODWC J B AARON |
Hey black child | Perkins, Useni Eugene | J 811.54 PER |
Hidden Figures: the true story of four black women and the space race | Shetterly, Margot Lee | J 920 SHE |
I Am Every Good Thing | Barnes, Derrick | E BAR |
I am Harriet Tubman | Meltzer, Brad | J B TUBMAN |
I am Jackie Robinson | Meltzer, Brad | J B ROBINSON |
I am Martin Luther King, Jr. | Meltzer, Brad | J B KING |
I am Oprah Winfrey | Meltzer, Brad | J B WINFREY |
I am Rosa Parks | Meltzer, Brad | J B PARKS |
I heard God talking to me : William Edmondson and his stone carvings | Spires, Elizabeth. | ODWC J 811.54 SPI |
I promise | James, LeBron | ODWC E JAM |
I see the rhythm | Igus, Toyomi | ODWC J 780.89 IGU |
Infinite hope : a Black artist's journey from World War II to peace | Bryan, Ashley | ODWC J B BRYAN |
Instructions for dancing | Yoon, Nicola | YA F YOO |
Inventing Victoria | Bolden, Tonya | YA F BOL |
Ira's Shakespeare dream | Armand, Glenda | ODWC J 792.02 ARM |
Jabari Tries | Cornwall, Gaia | ODWC E COR |
Jackie Robinson: Baseball Great | Scott, Richard | ODWC J B ROBINSON |
James Baldwin: Author | Rosset, Lisa | ODWC J B BALDWIN |
Jesse Jackson: A Biography | McKissack, Patricia C. | ODWC J B JACKSON |
Jesse Owens: Champion Athlete | Gentry, Tony. | ODWC J B OWENS |
Joe Louis: Heavyweight Champion | Jakoubek, Robert | ODWC J B LOUIS |
Josephine Baker: Entertainer | Schroeder, Alan. | ODWC J B BAKER |
Jump at the sun | Williams, Alicia | J B HURSTON |
Just like Martin | Davis, Ossie | ODWC J DAV |
Kamala and Maya's big idea | Harris, Meena | ODWC E HAR |
Kenya's song | Trice, Linda | ODWC E TRI |
King & Kayla and the case of found Fred | Butler, Dori Hillestad | ER BUT |
King & Kayla and the case of the lost tooth | Butler, Dori Hillestad | ER BUT |
King & Kayla and the case of the unhappy neighbor | Butler, Dori Hillestad | ER BUT |
King and Kayla and the case of the mysterious mouse | Butler, Dori Hillestad | ER BUT |
Kneel | Buford, Candace | YA F BUF |
Langston Hughes: Poet | Rummel, Jack. | ODWC J B HUGHES |
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance | Grimes, Nikki | J 811.54 GRI |
Legendborn | Deonn, Tracy | YA F DEO |
Claudette Colvin | Cline-Ransome, Lesa | J B COLVIN |
Clean getaway | Stone, Nic | J F STO |
Colin Powell: Military Leader | Brown, Warren | ODWC J B POWELL |
Concrete rose | Thomas, Angie | YA F THO |
Cornrows | Yarbrough, Camille | ODWC E YAR |
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