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Shane W. Evans

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Ruby Bridges

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Monica Clark-Robinson

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Vashti Harrison

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Jamia Wilson

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Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Doreen Rappaport

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Andrea Davis-Pinkney

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Jacqueline Woodson

At Ventura County Library

Daniel Beaty

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Denene Milner

At Ventura County Library

Jacqueline Woodson

At Ventura County Library

Jeron Ashford Frame

Available as a video on PBS

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T. Marie Harris

bell hooks

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Walter Dean Myers

At Ventura County Library

Julius Lester

Colin Kaepernick

Read aloud

Veronica Chambers

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Renée Watson

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Katheryn Russell-Brown

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Julia Finley Mosca

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Nikkolas Smith

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Carole Boston Weatherford

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Roda Ahmed

Stacey Abrams

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Glenda Armand and Kim Freeman

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Jacqueline Woodson

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Ashley Bryan

Ysaye M. Barnwell

Daniel Beaty

Sindiwe Magona

Julius Lester

At Ventura County Library

Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein

At Oxnard Library

Christopher Paul Curtis

At Ventura County Library

Christopher Paul Curtis

At Ventura County Library

Jacqueline Woodson

At Ventura County Library

Nikole Hannah-Jones & Renée Watson

Educator's Guide

Read Aloud

Carole Boston Weatherford & Rob Sanders

Mélina Mangal

Ibi Zoboi

Michael Platt, Alleanna Harris

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Chris Barton, Don Tate

Jennifer Jones, Robert Paul Jr.

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Roberta Flack, Tonya Bolden, Hayden Goodman

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Matt de la Peña

Read aloud in English

Alice Faye Duncan

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Derrick Barnes & Gordon C. James

Rita Lorraine Hubbard Y Oge Mora

J.H. Shapiro

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Sharana Jackson

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Andrea J. Loney

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Gene Barretta

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Ronald Takaki

At Ventura County Library

Jason Reynold and Ibram X. Kendi

At Ventura County Library

Cynthia Levinson

At Ventura County Library

Walter Dean Myers

At Oxnard Library

Kwame Alexander

At Ventura County Library (en Español)

Rita Williams-García 

At Ventura County Library

Carole Boston Weatherford and R. Gregory Christie

At Ventura County Library

Christopher Paul Curtis

At Ventura County Library

Jacqueline Woodson

At Ventura County Library

Mildred D. Taylor

At Ventura County Library

Kekla Magoon

David Barclay Moore

At Ventura County Library

Patricia C. McKissack

Hope Anita Smith

At Oxnard Library

Patricia Polacco 

At Oxnard Library

Copies available in school libraries.

Jacqueline Woodson

At Ventura County Library

Kadir Nelson

Copies available in school libraries.

Nikki Grimes

Carole Boston Weatherford

Jason Reynolds

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Joan DiCicco

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Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy

Ronald Takaki

At Ventura County Library

Jason Reynold and Ibram X. Kendi

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Angie Thomas

At Ventura County Library

Ilyasah Shabazz

At Ventura County Library

Nicola Yoon

At Ventura County Library

Jason Reynolds

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Walter Dean Myers

At Ventura County Library

Angie Thomas

At Ventura County Library

Jason Reynolds

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James Baldwin

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Alice Walker

At Ventura County Library

Audre Lorde

At Oxnard Library

Toni Morrison

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Ralph Ellison

At Ventura County Library

Richard Wright

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Tomi Adeyami

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Justina Ireland

At Ventura County Library

Dashka Slater

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Ben Phillipe

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Liara Tamani

At Ventura County Library

L. L. McKinney

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Nic Stone

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Ibi Zoboi

At Ventura County Library

Renee Watson

At Ventura County Library

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

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Kwame Alexander

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Jason Reynolds

At Ventura County Library

Jonn Lewis

At Oxnard Library

Nikki Grimes

Marc Lamont Hill

Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, & Jonoathan Snipes

Matthew A. Cherry

Teaching Tolerance

Kwame Alexander

At Ventura County Library

Listen to the story here.

Langston Hughes

Edited by David Roessel

At Ventura County Library

Kwame Alexander

At Ventura County Library

Walter Dean Myers

At Oxnard Library

Nickelodeon

The Optional Facts - TikTok

DK Books

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