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1981.
A seventeen-year-old boy convinces a black baseball team to take him along on their tour as a relief player, but he must pretend he is a deaf-mut
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1990, c1988.
While sitting through a fearsome thunderstorm that has put the lights out, Thomas hears a story from Grandfather's boyhood, when Grandfather was
Book
©1999.
For toddlers fascinated with faucets, fountains, puddles, and more, here is a joyous exploration of water.
Book
c1988.
1st ed.
After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquire
Book
1996.
Hypocrisy and prejudice twist events in such a way as to implicate two children, one from a prominent white family and the other an Afro-American
Book
1952.
Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother and mother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family
Book
©1992.
1st ed.
In 1987 Rita Dove became one of the youngest writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry - and only the second African-American to do so. Now in
Book
1998.
1st ed.
The daughter of a free black man who worked as a blacksmith in Charleston, South Carolina, in the early 1800s recalls the stories from the Bible
Book
c1990.
1st ed.
Tired of living with an abusive father and an unloving mother, who supervise a rural prison farm, thirteen-year-old Pickle and the released black
Book
c1981.
Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their pare
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c1997.
Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught o
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