Best Ivy League School For African Americans - April 2024

Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy)

If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1416905863
• ASIN: 1416905863
• ISBN: 1416905863
• Brand: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, and Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self

New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller!Girls can rule the world—all they need is confidence. This empowering, entertaining guide from the bestselling authors of The Confidence Code gives girls the essential yet elusive code to becoming bold, brave, and fearless. It’s a paradox familiar to parents everywhere: girls are achieving like never before, yet they’re consumed with doubt on the inside. Girls worry constantly about how they look, what people think, whether to try out for a sports team or school play, why they aren’t getting “perfect” grades, and how m... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062796984
• ASIN: 0062796984
• ISBN: 0062796984
• Brand: HarperCollins
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

Native Son (Perennial Classics)

Now an HBO Film!“If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr.Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic.Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflect... [Read More]

• ASIN: 006083756X
• ASIN: 006083756X
• ISBN: 006083756X
• Brand: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

• ASIN: 0525509712
• ASIN: 0525509712
• ISBN: 0525509712
• Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

The instant New York Times bestseller from the creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away With Murder shares how saying YES changed her life. “As fun to read as Rhimes’s TV series are to watch” (Los Angeles Times).She’s the creator and producer of some of the most groundbreaking and audacious shows on television today. Her iconic characters live boldly and speak their minds. So who would suspect that Shonda Rhimes is an introvert? That she hired a publicist so she could avoid public appearances? That she suffered panic attacks before media intervi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476777128
• ASIN: 1476777128
• ISBN: 1476777128
• Brand: Shonda Rhimes
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Sula

Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.

• ASIN: 1400033438
• ASIN: 1400033438
• ISBN: 1400033438
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

The inspiring, true coming-of-age story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair.In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate was well into double digits and just 80 students out of more than 1,350 boasted an average of B or better. At Ballou, Cedric had almost no friends. He ate lunch in a classroom most days, plowing through the extra work he asked for, knowing that he was... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0767901266
• ASIN: 0767901266
• ISBN: 0767901266
• Brand: Broadway
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

Stella by Starlight

When the Ku Klux Klan’s unwelcome reappearance rattles Stella’s segregated southern town, bravery battles prejudice in this New York Times bestselling Depression-era “novel that soars” (The New York Times Book Review) that School Library Journal called “storytelling at its finest” in a starred review.Stella lives in the segregated South—in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. Some stores she can go into. Some stores she can’t. Some folks are right pleasant. Others are a lot less so. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn’t bothered them for years... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1442494980
• ASIN: 1442494980
• ISBN: 1442494980
• Brand: Atheneum Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
• Manufacturer: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books

Amazing Grace (Grace-picture Books)

Grace loves stories, whether they're from books, movies, or the kind her grandmother tells. So when she gets a chance to play a part in Peter Pan, she knows exactly who she wants to be. Remarkable watercolor illustrations give full expression to Grace's high-flying imagination.

• ASIN: 0803710402
• ASIN: 0803710402
• ISBN: 9780803710405
• Brand: Dial
• Manufacturer: Dial Books

As Brave As You

Kirkus Award Finalist Schneider Family Book Award Winner Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires—literally—in this “pitch-perfect contemporary novel” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) by the winner of the Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award.Genie’s summer is full of surprises. The first is that he and his big brother, Ernie, are leaving Brooklyn for the very first time to spend the summer with their grandparents all the way in Virginia—in the COUNTRY! The second surprise comes when Genie figures out that t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1481415913
• ASIN: 1481415913
• ISBN: 1481415913
• Brand: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
• Manufacturer: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

With a thrilling narrative that sheds much light on recent events, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country’s elected prime minister, ushered in a quarter-century of brutal rule under the Shah, and stimulated the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and anti-Americanism in the Middle East. Selected as one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and The Economist, it now features a new preface by the author on the folly of attacking Iran.

• ASIN: 047018549X
• ASIN: 047018549X
• ISBN: 047018549X
• Brand: Kinzer, Stephen
• Manufacturer: Wiley

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

• ASIN: B00GEEB7LC
• ASIN: B00GEEB7LC
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Scribner

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounted the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States--Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others--groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture.Now, Ronald Takaki has revised his landmark work and made it even more relevant and important. Among the new additions to the book are:--The role of bla... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316022365
• ASIN: 0316022365
• ISBN: 9780316022361
• Brand: Takaki, Ronald T.
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

A Piece of Cake: A Memoir

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake“[Cupcake] Brown’s confessional . . . memoir is one you can’t easily put down. Her life is nothing short of a miracle.”—Chicago Sun-TimesThere are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, and homelessness.Cupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty. And that’s when things got interesting. . . Orphaned by th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400052297
• ASIN: 1400052297
• ISBN: 1400052297
• Brand: Brand: Broadway Books
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel

Hocus Pocus is beloved by Halloween enthusiasts all over the world. Diving once more into the world of witches, this New York Times bestselling two-part young adult novel, released on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1993 film, marks a new era of Hocus Pocus. Fans will be spellbound by a fresh retelling of the original film, followed by the all-new sequel that continues the story with the next generation of Salem teens. Shortly after moving from California to Salem, Massachusetts, Max Dennison finds himself in hot water when he accidentally releases a coven of witches, the Sanderson sisters... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1368020038
• ASIN: 1368020038
• ISBN: 1368020038
• Manufacturer: Freeform

Upending the Ivory Tower : Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League

The inspiring story of the black students, faculty, and administrators who forever changed America's leading educational institutions and paved the way for social justice and racial progress The eight elite institutions that comprise the Ivy

• UPC: 731648588