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| Tom Feelings - The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo |
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The Middle Passage is the name given to one of the most tragic ordeals in history: the cruel and terrifying journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean. In this seminal work, master artist Tom Feelings tells the complete story of this horrific diaspora in sixty-four extraordinary narrativ ...
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$47.00 - $47.00
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| Faith Ringgold - Tar Beach |
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Cassie Lightfoot, a black girl growing up in Harlem in the 1930s, has a dream--to be free to go wherever she wants for the rest of her life. One night, up on "Tar Beach"--the rooftop of her family's apartment building--her dream comes true. The stars lift her up, and she flies over the city, claimin ...
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$0.00 - $19.00
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| Nikki Grimes - Bronx Masquerade |
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After Wesley reads an intimate poem to his high school English class, other students envy this power of self-reflection and start writing their own poetry, causing deep secrets, fears, and feelings to be revealed and fatades to vanish. A Coretta Scott King Award Winner & ALA Best Book for Young Adul ...
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$0.25 - $13.25
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| Taylor - Road to Memphis |
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Set in Mississippi in 1941, The Road to Memphis describes three harrowing, unforgettable days in the life of an African-American high school girl dreaming of law school. Caught up in the center of tense racial dramas unfolding around her, Cassie Logan is forced to confront the adult world as never b ...
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$0.25 - $12.91
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| Angela Johnson - Heaven |
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Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents.
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$0.25 - $12.71
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| Angela Johnson - Toning the Sweep |
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On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.
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$0.25 - $5.99
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| Marilyn Nelson - Carver: A Life in Poems |
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A collection of forty-four poems--told from the point of view of Carver and the people who knew him--provides young readers with a compelling, lyrical account of the life of revered African-American botanist and inventor, George Washington Carver.
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$13.00 - $15.00
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| Eloise Greenfield - Africa Dream |
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An African-American child dreams of Africa, where she sees animals, shops in a marketplace, reads from a strange old book, and returns to the village where her granddaddy welcomed her so long ago.
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$6.99 - $6.99
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| Soul Looks Back in Wonder |
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Artwork and poems by such writers as Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and Askia Toure portray the creativity, strength, and beauty of their African American heritage.
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$7.99 - $7.99
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