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African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales
Nineteen stories focus on the magical lore and wondrous imaginings of African American women....
Geeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who closely resembl...
Creation Stories from Around the World
An illustrated collection of twenty-five myths from various parts of the world explaining the creation of the world....
All of the kids at school stay away from “Bluish,” but when Dreenie and Tuli learn to see beyond her differences, they discover a true friend Ten-...
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Collected Writings of Virginia Hamilton
A monumental collection by one of America's greatest authors of children's literature — and the launch of a new imprint, ReLIT, that republishes los...
Edgar Award Winner: A teenager and his family must uncover the haunting historical legacy of their Civil War–era house. Shortly after moving into an...
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DIVA beautiful ghost appears to a troubled teen and shows her the heartbreaking secrets of her family’s past/divDIV /div DIVFifteen-year-old Teresa ...
The friendship of twelve-year-old cousins Cammy and Elodie is threatened when the family reunion includes two other cousins near their age and Elodie ...
DIVTheir psychic power brought them to Dustland together. But will that same power tear them apart?/divDIV /divDIVUsing their psychic abilities, Justi...
An American Library Association Notable Book and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year:Twelve-year-old Arilla goes on a quest to discover who...
African-Americans from Slavery to Freedom
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DIVDIVThomas must keep the treasure of Dies Dear from landing in the wrong hands, but there are many secrets beneath Drear House, and not everyone can...
A bittersweet story of a 12-year-old girl's search for the truth about her own past and her missing father....
The Book of Times
Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton presents a novella that brings together the slave past and multi-generational present life of a young girl in Ohio....
An American Library Association Notable Book: In rural Ohio in 1938, twelve-year-old Willie Bea prepares for Halloween—and an alien invasion! Hallow...
Though she has been raised lovingly by her grandparents, a black teenager goes in search of her father....
Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotional...
African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales
In the tradition of Hamilton's The People Could Fly and In the Beginning, a dramatic new collection of 25 compelling tales from the female African Ame...
American Black Folktales
"The well-known author retells 24 black American folk tales in sure storytelling voice: animal tales, supernatural tales, fanciful and cautionary tale...
The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
The “unforgettable” novel from the Newbery Medal–winning author tells the true story of a runaway slave whose capture and trial set off abolitio...
As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his fami...
Newbery medalist Virginia Hamilton's third book in "The Justice Cycle" is the riveting tale of four extraordinary young adults battling to save the ea...
African Americans from Slavery to Freedom
Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways....
A Biography
Characterizes the American black experience and the fight for civil rights, describes the enormous influence of Dr. Du Bois as a civil rights activist...
Buhlaire es una niña de las Casas del RĂo. Su pelo rasta y su extraño color vainilla la hacen distinta de los demás. Vive con su madre y todos sus...
Geeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a tall woman who raises hogs and who resembles a photograph of a Wa...
Justice and Her Brothers, Dustland, and The Gathering
Four young people must master their powers in order to escape from a barren, dangerous land in these three novels by a Newbery Medal winner. The Justi...
50th Anniversary Edition
In a 25th anniversary edition, landmark Newbery Award-winning novel, "M.C. Higgins, The Great, " is reborn in a new package. As a slag heap, the resul...
Three children inexorably linked through their supersensory powers and experiences, begin a sequence of adventures and perils....
A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolition...
An absorbing mystery (about a Negro boy's house, once part of the Underground Railroad), enriched with perceptive insights into certain aspects of the...
Greeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who closely resemb...
Although the other animals also feel threatened by the encroachment of humans, only Rundi and Coati journey north in search of a safer place to live....
The Life and Times of a Free Black Man
A biography of the world famous actor and singer who lost much of his popularity when he became a champion of communism....
The Alabama Years
This is a biography about Hugo Black....
The fiction writer uses language to create the illusion of reality. A work of fiction is an illusion of life in which characters attempt to transform ...
From Crisis to Catastrophe
Includes statistics....