Get to know Mississippi
These are books that are either by Black Mississippians or about Mississippi. This playlist ranges from child to adult. So sit back with a nice glass of sweet tea, and get to know Mississippi! “Mississippi just has a certain stank to it,” he said in a recent phone interview, describing the state’s primal force on his writing. “It’s the most culturally rich place in the world. I just need to be closer to cultural artistic richness, and to me, that’s Mississippi.” - Kiese Laymon
J.D. and the Family Business
J.D. the Kid Barber: Book #2
By: J. Dillard
Narrated by: Tivia Lynnell
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
Eight-year-old kid barber J.D. joins forces with his sister, who has beauty shop dreams, in this hilarious chapter book series.
J.D. is a barber battle champion. He's graduated from home haircuts to having a regular chair at the neighborhood shop, Hart and Son, and he's making enough money to keep his candy jar stocked and his comic book... Read more
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J.D. and the Great Barber Battle
J.D. the Kid Barber: Book #1
By: J. Dillard
Narrated by: Tivia Lynnell
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Eight-year-old J.D. turns a tragic home haircut into a thriving barber business in this hilarious new chapter book series
J.D. has a big problem--it's the night before the start of third grade and his mom has just given him his first and worst home haircut. When the steady stream of insults from the entire student body of Douglass Elementary... Read more
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Loretta Little Looks Back
Three Voices Go Tell It
By: Andrea Davis Pinkney
Narrated by: Dashawn Barnes, Deborah Wilson & Ralph Harris
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
From a bestselling and award-winning husband and wife team comes an innovative, beautifully illustrated novel that delivers a front-row seat to the groundbreaking moments in history that led to African Americans earning the right to vote.
"Right here, I'm sharing the honest-to-goodness." -- Loretta
"I'm gon' reach back, and tell how it all went.... Read more
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Concrete Rose
A Printz Honor Winner
By: Angie Thomas
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. A Printz Honor Book!If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang... Read more
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The Hate U Give
By: Angie Thomas
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“This bestselling, powerful young adult novel about social justice and one teen girl's effort to fight for what is right, will leave you breathless. The narration by Bahni Turpin is hands down the best I've ever heard. This is such an important book it should be required reading for life in general. Or listening. Definitely listening. Read more
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On the Come Up
By: Angie Thomas
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Don't miss this audiobook, Audible's Young Adult Audiobook of the Year and an Audie Award finalist!The YA love letter to hip-hop—streaming on Paramount+ September 23, 2022! Starring Sanaa Lathan (in her directorial debut), Jamila C. Gray, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Lil Yachty, Method Man, Mike Epps, GaTa (Davionte Ganter), Miles... Read more
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
A Novel
By: Jesmyn Ward
Narrated by: Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Chris Chalk & Rutina Wesley
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Sing, Unburied, Sing is a dark and gorgeous song of love and heartbreak, haunting and tragic and disorienting in its timelessness. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill anchors Ward's tale to Mississippi today, which is almost indistinguishable from its notorious yesterday, a present and past (ironically) made more alive in the novel by ghosts and... Read more
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Song of the Trees
By: Mildred D. Taylor
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 39 minutes
Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
With the depression bearing down on her family, there isn’t much that Cassie Logan can count on anymore.
But there is one thing that hasn’t changed—the whispering trees outside her window. Cassie’s trees, which... Read more
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Logan Family Saga
By: Mildred D. Taylor
Narrated by: Lynne Thigpen & Jacqueline Woodson
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning masterpiece with an introduction written and read by Jacqueline Woodson, just in time for its 40th Anniversary!
Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice.... Read more
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Let the Circle Be Unbroken
By: Mildred D. Taylor
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes
A stunning repackage of a companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, with cover art by two-time Caldecott Honor Award winner Kadir Nelson!
It is a frightening and turbulent time for the Logan family. First, their friend T.J. must go on trial for murder--and confront an all-white jury. Then, Cousin Suzella tries to pass for... Read more
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The Gold Cadillac
By: Mildred D. Taylor
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 31 minutes
Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
A drive South becomes dangerous for ‘lois and her family.
'Lois and Wilma are proud of their father's brand-new gold Cadillac, and excited that the family will be driving it all the way from Ohio to Mississippi.... Read more
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The Friendship
By: Mildred D. Taylor
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 40 minutes
Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Cassie Logan and her brothers have been warned never to go to the Wallace store.
So they know to expect trouble there. What they don’t expect is to hear Mr. Tom Bee, an elderly black man, daring to call the... Read more
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Mississippi Bridge
By: Mildred D. Taylor
Narrated by: Danny Gerard
Length: 53 minutes
Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
A day of conflict and tragedy.
Jeremy Simms watches from the porch of the general store as the weekly bus from Jackson comes through his town. His neighbor Stacey Logan and Stacey's brothers and sister are there... Read more
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The Road to Memphis
By: Mildred D. Taylor
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
"Cassie recounts harrowing events during late 1941. An engrossing picture of fine young people endeavoring to find the right way in a world that persistently wrongs them." --Kirkus Reviews Read more
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The Well
By: Mildred D. Taylor
Narrated by: Andre Montgomery
Length: 2 hours 4 minutes
Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
For David Logan, a time of distress means taking the higher road.
During a drought, the Logan family shares their well water with their neighbors, black and white alike. But David’s brother Hammer finds it hard... Read more
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The Land
By: Mildred D. Taylor
Narrated by: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
This searing and inspiring prequel to ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY is the story of Cassie Logan's grandfather. Paul-Edward is the son of a white father and a half-black, half-Indian mother. His father raises him almost as if he were white, but when it counts, he's treated as a black man with racist spite and hatred. He cannot fit into either the... Read more
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All the Days Past, All the Days to Come
By: Mildred D. Taylor
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 14 hours 37 minutes
The saga of the Logan family--made famous in the Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--concludes in a long-awaited and deeply fulfilling story.
In her tenth book, Mildred Taylor completes her sweeping saga about the Logan family of Mississippi, which is also the story of the civil rights movement in America of the 20th century.... Read more
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Navigate Your Stars
By: Jesmyn Ward
Narrated by: Jesmyn Ward
Length: 19 minutes
A revelatory, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated meditation on dedication, hard work, and the power of perseverance from the beloved, New York Times bestselling, and two-time National Book Award–winning Jesmyn Ward.
For Tulane University’s 2018 commencement, Jesmyn Ward delivered a stirring speech about the value of hard work and the... Read more
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Long Division
By: Kiese Laymon
Narrated by: Sean Crisden
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Was life so different in 1964, 1985, 2013? This life-changing, time-traveling book within a book that explores the struggle of being a Black 14 year old in Mississippi. Laymon highlights the themes that matter most (family, love, the written word) and the racism that permeates the South - it never really goes away as the years go on, it just... Read more
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Heavy
An American Memoir
By: Kiese Laymon
Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“An incredibly generous, tender, and searingly honest book. Kiese Laymon is hands down one of the most talented American writers publishing right now. HEAVY overflows with deep love and deep pain. Laymon holds up a mirror to the US past, present - "We did not have to be this way. We will not ever have to be this way." I'm going back to read... Read more
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