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321) Sounder
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Angry and humiliated after his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young African-American boy is comforted by the companionship of the devoted dog, Sounder, and grows in courage and understanding by learning to read.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn't he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to get off in the dirty part of town? Each question is met with an encouraging answer from grandma, who helps him see the beauty--and fun--in their routine and the world around them. This energetic ride through a bustling city highlights...
Author
Series
Magic tree house) volume 29-32
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
This collection includes four exciting Jack and Annie adventures.
327) Magnolia flower
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Vox books edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Born to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears, Magnolia Flower is a girl with a vibrant spirit. Not to be deterred by rigid ways of the world, she longs to connect with others, who too long for freedom. She finds this in a young man of letters who her father disapproves of. In her quest to be free, Magnolia must make a choice and set off on a journey that will prove just how brave one can be when leading with one's heart.
Author
Pub. Date
©2018.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"Stephen Satlow is an eight-year-old boy living in Brooklyn, New York, which means he only cares about one thing -- the Dodgers. Steve and his father spend hours reading the sports pages and listening to games on the radio. Aside from an occasional run-in with his teacher, life is pretty simple for Steve. But then Steve hears a rumor that an African American family is moving to his all-Jewish neighborhood. It's 1948 and some of his neighbors are against...
Author
Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
It's 1863 and dinosaurs roam the streets of New York as the Civil War rages between raptor-mounted armies down South. Magdalys Roca and her friends from the Colored Orphan Asylum are on a field trip when the Draft Riots break out, and a number of their fellow orphans are kidnapped by an evil magistrate, Richard Riker. Magdalys and her friends flee to Brooklyn and settle in the Dactyl Hill neighborhood, where black and brown New Yorkers have set up...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Presents three animated stories about freedom in the United States, including the stories of a boy who hides in a wooden crate and mails himself to freedom; the friendship between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass; and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
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