North Carolina | Roxbury

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State birds, flowers, trees, and animals brought to board book form for the youngest book lovers. Toddlers will delight in these books filled with rhyming riddles framed by brightly painted clues, introducing elements that make each state so special.

2) T is for Tar Heel: a North Carolina alphabet

Author

Crane, Carol

Series

Discover America State by State

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Presents information about the state of North Carolina in an alphabetical arrangement.

3) Stella by starlight

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Draper, Sharon M

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, Playaway/Launchpad

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When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.

4) Caterpillar summer

Author

McDunn, Gillian

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Since her father's death, Cat has taken care of her brother, Chicken, for their hardworking mother but while spending time with grandparents they never knew, Cat has the chance to be a child again.

5) Where the watermelons grow

Author

Baldwin, Cindy

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Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Maryville, North Carolina, tries to come to terms with her mother's mental illness while her father struggles to save the farm from a record-breaking drought.

6) Poet: the remarkable story of George Moses Horton

Author

Tate, Don

Series

Sports story

7) Overground railroad

Author

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Series

Live Oak Media eReadalong

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway Wonderbook

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"A girl named Ruth Anne tells the story of her family's train journey from North Carolina to New York City as part of the Great Migration"--

8) Sit-in: how four friends stood up by sitting down

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Pinkney, Andrea Davis

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The recipient of a Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor, Andrea Davis Pinkney is the popular author of numerous picture books and young adult novels. Sit-In recounts the historic events of 1960, when four black college students attempted to integrate a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. ". powerful, elemental, and historic story of those who stood up to oppressive authority and changed the world."-Booklist, starred review

9) Nina: a story of Nina Simone

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Todd, Traci N

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"A biography of Nina Simone, an acclaimed singer whose music gave voice to the struggle for racial equality during the Civil Rights Movement"--

10) North Carolina's Amazing Coast: Natural Wonders from Alligators to Zoeas

Author

Bryant, David

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Fun and learning come together in North Carolina's Amazing Coast, an inviting collection of one hundred short, self-contained features about the flora, fauna, and natural history of that fascinating place where land meets sea. Each page includes a full-color illustration and breezy, fact-filled commentary on coastal wildlife from fifty-foot-long northern right whales to single-cell plankton, from shy red wolves to overbearingly sociable sand gnats....