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Blue Birds

A 12 yo girl defies orders to stay inside the fort of the first attempted British colony in North America. She drops a figurine that is later found by a 13 yo Native American girl and they form a secret friendship. Told in verse in alternating perspectives.
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Pink and Say

15 yo gravely wounded white Union soldier is rescued on the battlefield by African American boy soldier, about the same age. The wounded boy is nursed back to health by the other boy’s mother, but then they are captured by Confederates. Based on the author’s family history.
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Show Way

Picture book depicts generations of African American women from author’s family and their special quilts containing secret messages and maps to freedom
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