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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A boy wakes up one morning to find his father gone. At first, he feels lost. But his father has left him a letter filled with advice to guide him through the times he cannot be there"--
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
970L
Physical Desc
243 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the stories of ten African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the popular poem by one of the central figures in the Harlem Renaissance, highlighting the courage and dignity of the African American Pullman porters in the early twentieth century.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles Coretta Scott King, whose efforts in carrying on her husband's civil rights work led her to establish the Coretta Scott King Award, which celebrates African-American writers and illustrators.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
1 book club set, in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson's...