Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Sandpiper
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Twelve-year-old Jason Bell waits impatiently for Christmas 1890. Set against the carefully researched background life of a middle-class black family in Ohio a century ago, “Hamilton’s story moves along at an elegant pace, giving readers time to savor the holiday preparations.”–School Library Journal
Rating: (709 reviews)
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
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Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I’ll call it what the lady who is the [...]
Rating: (481 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father–the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. Amazon.com Review
“It’s funny how [...]
Rating: (388 reviews)
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston’s beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Connie Porter
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Inc
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Knowing that Christmas will be hard without the rest of her family, Addy sets out to earn money to give her mother a special Christmas gift, but after discovering the plight of newly freed slaves, she decides to give her money to the Freedman’s Fund.
Rating: (1716 reviews)
Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
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Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter [...]
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Sandpiper
Product Description
Twelve-year-old Jason Bell waits impatiently for Christmas 1890. Set against the carefully researched background life of a middle-class black family in Ohio a century ago, “Hamilton’s story moves along at an elegant pace, giving readers time to savor the holiday preparations.”–School Library Journal
Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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In this third self-contained volume of her autobiography, which began with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou moves into the adult world. Maya struggles to support herself and her son through a series of odd jobs and weathers a failed marriage to [...]
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Pat McKissack
Publisher: Frontline Books
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A lavishly illustrated historical book describes Christmas on a pre-Civil War plantation from the viewpoints of the big house family and the slave quarters.
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: RH Disney
Publisher: Golden/Disney
Product Description
Walt Disney Pictures presents The Princess and the Frog. . . .
Meet Tiana—Disney’s newest princess. Her big dreams are put on hold when she is transformed into a frog! Discover how she finds love and learns all about what is truly important in the Little Golden Book retelling [...]
Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Product Description
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight…for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become [...]
Rating: (105 reviews)
Author: Geraldine Brooks
Publisher: Viking Adult
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Amazon Best of the Month, January 2008: One of the earliest Jewish religious volumes to be illuminated with images, the Sarajevo Haggadah survived centuries of purges and wars thanks to people of all faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Geraldine Brooks, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of [...]
Rating: (50 reviews)
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Publisher: HarperCollins
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The jolly and exciting tale of the little boy who lost his red coat and his blue trousers and his purple shoes but who was saved from the tigers to eat 169 pancakes for his supper, has been universally loved by generations of children. First written in 1899, the story [...]
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Ellen Levine
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Book Description
Henry Brown doesn’t know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves’ birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. When Henry grows up [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
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Publisher: Jump At The Sun
Rating: (606 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
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The year is 1963, and self-important Byron Watson is the bane of his younger brother Kenny’s existence. Constantly in trouble for one thing or another, from straightening his hair into a “conk” to lighting fires to freezing his lips to the mirror of the new family car, [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. He’s best known in his hometown as the boy who made a memorable impression on Frederick Douglass. But things change when a former [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, George R. R. Martin, Octavia E. Butler, Jonathan Lethem, Orson Scott Card, Gene Wolfe, Jack McDevitt, Tobias S. Buckell
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Book Description
Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon – these are our guides through the Wastelands… From the [...]
Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Dale Powell, Charles Dickens
Publisher: Dickens World
Book Description
The original sequel to a Christmas Carol from DickensWorld. Get it in its original form. No more copies of this version of this critically acclaimed masterpiece will be printed.
Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Random House
Book Description
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. “Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward,” she writes, “and speak the word [...]
Rating: (158 reviews) Author: Philip K. Dick Publisher: Vintage Book Description It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost [...]
Rating: (291 reviews) Author: Chaim Potok Publisher: Fawcett Amazon.com Few stories offer more warmth, wisdom, or generosity than this tale of two boys, their fathers, their friendship, and the chaotic times in which they live. Though on the surface it explores religious faith–the intellectually committed as well as the passionately observant–the struggles addressed in [...]
Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Joel Chandler Harris
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Book Description
It’s been more than a hundred years since the publication of the first Uncle Remus book, and it was in 1955 that all of the delightful and inimitable tales of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Bear, and Brer Wolf were gathered together in one volume. All [...]
Rating: (42 reviews)
Author: Clement Clarke Moore
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
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Whose tiny faces are peeking out from Santa’s golden sleigh? Yikes! It’s two of Santa’s elves who are Christmas Eve stowaways. Beloved illustrator Jan Brett’s version of The Night Before Christmas lets these two mischievous elves add their rambunctious spirit to this familiar 1823 rhyming story. Here, [...]
Rating: (660 reviews)
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Amistad
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“Monster” is what the prosecutor called 16-year-old Steve Harmon for his supposed role in the fatal shooting of a convenience-store owner. But was Steve really the lookout who gave the “all clear” to the murderer, or was he just in the wrong place at the wrong time? In [...]
Rating: (1228 reviews)
Author: Stephen Chbosky
Publisher: MTV
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What is most notable about this funny, touching, memorable first novel from Stephen Chbosky is the resounding accuracy with which the author captures the voice of a boy teetering on the brink of adulthood. Charlie is a freshman. And while’s he’s not the biggest geek in the school, he [...]
Rating: (389 reviews)
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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At the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometime-collaborator with Langston Hughes and a fierce rival of Richard Wright. Her stories appeared in major magazines, she consulted [...]
Rating: (90 reviews)
Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Book Description
Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But it’s hard when you have a record, and everyone expects the worst from you. The only person who believes in him is [...]
Rating: (450 reviews)
Author: Mildred D. Taylor
Publisher: Puffin
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In all Mildred D. Taylor’s unforgettable novels she recounts “not only the joy of growing up in a large and supportive family, but my own feelings of being faced with segregation and bigotry.” Her Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry tells the story of one African [...]
