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Format: Short Stories

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women

Compiled by Lisa Charleyboy, Mary Beth Leatherdale

Publisher: Annick, 2017
Pages: 109
ISBN: 9781554519576

CCBC Age Recommendation: Age 12 and older

CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 971 Charleyboy

The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and Fierce

Compiled by Angie Manfredi

Publisher: Abrams, 2019
Pages: 206
ISBN: 9781419737503

CCBC Age Recommendation: Age 11 and older

CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 306 Manfredi

101 Ways to Dance

Compiled by Kathy Stinson

Publisher: Second Story, 2007
Pages: 150
ISBN: 1897187106

CCBC Age Recommendation: Age 12 and older

CCBC Location: Fiction, Stinson

101 Ways to Dance

145th Street: Short Stories

by Walter Dean Myers

Publisher: Delacorte, 2000
Pages: 151
ISBN: 038532137

CCBC Age Recommendation: Age 13 and older

CCBC Location: Fiction, Myers

145th Street: Short Stories

Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence

Compiled by Marion Dane Bauer

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1994
Pages: 273
ISBN: 006024254X

CCBC Age Recommendation: Age 14 and older

CCBC Location: Fiction, Bauer

Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence

Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids

Compiled by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Publishers: HarperCollins, Heartdrum, 2021
Pages: 310
ISBN: 9780062869944

CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 9-14

CCBC Location: Fiction, Smith

Ashley Bryan's African Tales, Uh-Huh

by Ashley Bryan
Illustrated by Ashley Bryan

Publisher: Atheneum, 1998
Pages: 198
ISBN: 0689820763

CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 9-12

CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 398 Bryan

Ashley Bryan's African Tales, Uh-Huh

Badger on the Barge, and Other Stories

by Janni Howker

Publisher: Greenwillow, 1985
Pages: 201
ISBN: 9780435123130

CCBC Age Recommendation: Age 10 and older

CCBC Location: Fiction, Howker

Badger on the Barge, and Other Stories

Baseball in April, and Other Stories

by Gary Soto

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990
Pages: 109
ISBN: 015205720X

CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 11-14

CCBC Location: Fiction, Soto

Baseball in April, and Other Stories

Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood

by B.B. Alston, Dean Atta, Jerry Craft, Jay Coles, P. Djeli Clark, Lamar Giles, Don P. Hooper, George M. Johnson, Varian Johnson, Kwame Mbalia, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Tochi Onyebuchi, Julian Randall, Jason Reynolds, Justin A. Reynolds, Davaun Sanders, Julian Winters
Compiled by Kwame Mbalia

Publisher: Delacorte, 2021
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780593379936

CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 8-12

CCBC Location: Fiction, Mbalia