Bomb dropped on me this morning that I will not be allowed to distribute novels for teaching my remote students this spring. We've done some of Jason Reynolds and Kwame Alexander's books in literary circles in the past, but now I need to replace that with some works that are accessible to my students online. Does anyone have suggestions for available resources and works by Black authors? I can still do my poetry unit, buy need some digital texts. Short stories or other essays. Thanks in advance!

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It doesn't give a lot of variety, but 12 Years a Slave, A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself are all in the public domain and available from Amazon as free ebooks.

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Did you try googling the titles in quotes with the words free pdf after?

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There are a number of none copyrighted classics you can use and your public library should be able to help you with virtual copies for your classes. Hoopla is used in a lot of public libraries for example. Students will have to have a library card though.

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Our public libraries are offering free digital library cards to the schools so that kids can check books out on their Chromebooks if they are quarantined or are doing distant learning. You might check into getting those for your students.

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We also have that access, and many of my students are using the library to check out books for individual reading, but there are not enough digital copies for class study.

Bud, not Buddy is digital.

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Readworks is a great website and it is free. Google these with pdf after them... The Landlady by Roald Dahl, How It Feels to be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston, Charles by Shirley Jackson, Thank You Ma'am by Langston Hughes... those come to mind immediately. Oh and I think the name is Sniper by Flaherty? Another good one.

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