Silicon Valley Reads 2009

Related Reading

	Books for Adults
	Black Comedians on Black Comedy: how African-Americans Taught Us to Laugh by Darryl Littleton.
	A Conversation with the Mann: a novel by John Ridley.
	Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips.
	I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics compiled by Ritch Shydner and Mark Schiff .
	Laughing in the Dark: a Decade of Subversive Comedy by Laurie Stone.
	Books for Young Readers
	Adaline Falling Star by Mary Pope Osborne. Ages 9-12 A novel about an 11-year-old biracial daughter of an Arapaho Indian woman and a white man in the days of the old west.
	Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes. Grades 6-Young Adult What happens when a high school teacher hosts open-mike poetry in his classroom on Fridays.
	Freedom Rides: Campaign for Equality by Dale Anderson. Ages 9-12 Chronicles the 1961 freedom rides on buses from the south to Washington D.C. to test the U.S. Supreme Court decision against segregation in bus stations.
	Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes. Grades 6-Young Adult A novel about a 14-year-old girl living in Brooklyn who wants to be a writer.
	Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder and Jerry Pinkney Grades K-3 A picture book that introduces Harriet Tubman and the injustice of slavery to young audiences.
	The River Between Us by Richard Peck. At the start of the Civil War two mysterious young women get off a boat in a small town in southern Ilinois. Is the darker-complexioned woman the other woman's slave?
	Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patillo Beals Grades 7 and up The personal story of the author, one of nine black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.

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