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Simple text and photographs introduce young readers to the African American holiday of Juneteenth.

"Yusuf is excited to start middle school in his small Texas town, but with the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks coming up, suddenly it feels like the country's same anger and grief is all focused on his Muslim community"--Provided by publisher.

"With the one person who understands him fifteen hundred miles away, Jules must face his fears about coming out alone, which accidentally propels him into the life he's always dreamed of"--OCLC.

Sadie Scofield is entered in the Texas River Odyssey, 260 miles of brutal canoeing, but a chance to finally make up for ruining her father's chance of winning the previous year; but her brother Tanner suddenly opts to paddle for a different team, and she is left with Cully, a young man who was her best friend years ago, but no longer--260 miles in the same boat to sort out her relationship with the boy she once tried to defend from his abusive father, and discover the truth about their feuding families.

In 1943, Trudy Herman and her family are sent to a German-American Internment Camp in Texas and her experiences at the camp follow her when the family settles in Mississippi and she witnesses racial discrimination.

"Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade season to his Super Bowl champion father, who recently passed away. Danny promises everyone that, just like his dad, he'll dominate the big game at the end of the season and earn a spot on the high school varsity team. Then his English teacher catches him cheating on a test. Even though Danny can retake it, he knows there's no point. He can't read. And if Danny can't pass this class, he won't be eligible to play in the championship game that could unlock his future. While his resentment rises against the only person willing to help him win off the field, the pressure to succeed begins to weigh heavily on Danny's shoulders. Danny is being tested on every level now, and to pass, he may very well have to choose a different path from his father's"--Provided by publisher.

"An urgent call to free those buried alive by America's legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity-from a young lawyer and important new voice in the movement to transform the system"--Provided by publisher.

"Juneteenth, which is celebrated each year on June 19, commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. In this book, readers are given an in-depth look at the history of Juneteenth, including the events leading up to its creation"--Provided by publisher.

An in-depth chronicle of the history of Texas's original police force, the Texas Rangers, from their birth in 1835 during the Texas Revolution to their merger with the State Highway Patrol in 1935.

"'It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.'--Annette Gordon-Reed. The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us. From the earliest presence of black people in Texas--in the 1500s, well before enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown--to the day in Galveston on June 19, 1865, when General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery, Gordon-Reed's insightful and inspiring essays present the saga of a 'frontier' peopled by Native Americans, Anglos, Tejanos, and Blacks that became a slaveholder's republic. Reworking the 'Alamo' framework, Gordon-Reed shows that the slave--and race--based economy not only defined this fractious era of Texas independence, but precipitated the Mexican-American War and the resulting Civil War. A commemoration of Juneteenth and the fraught legacies of slavery that still persist, On Juneteenth is stark reminder that the fight for equality is ongoing"--Provided by the publisher.