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Hardcover : $16.00 Buy	Miss Opal's Auction Susan Vizurraga; Illustrated by Mark Graham Henry Holt and Co. A touching story about friendship and the preservation of memory. "I bet it was sad for Miss Opal to watch her belongings leaving in the hands of neighbors...

Hardcover : $17.95 Buy	Ananse and the Lizard A West African Tale Pat Cummings Henry Holt and Co. Can the legendary trickster be out-tricked? All the young men had gathered in the village courtyard to hear the Chief’s pronouncement: Whoever guesses...

Hardcover : $15.00 Buy	Gloria's Way Ann Cameron; Pictures by Lis Toft Frances Foster Books By the author of The Secret Life of Amanda K Woods and The Stories Julian Tells In six spirited stories, Gloria has a confrontation with a loquacious...

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Anansi the Spider

A Tale from the Ashanti

written and illustrated by Gerald McDermott Square Fish

Anansi the Spider is a 1973 Caldecott Honor Book.

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Junebug in Trouble

Alice Mead Farrar, Straus and Giroux

"This book will ring true to many young readers and expose others to the challenges faced by children today. An excellent choice, particularly for reluctant...

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Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile

retold by Won-Ldy Paye and Margaret H. Lippert, illustrated by Julie Paschkis Henry Holt and Co.

Mrs. Chicken has to think fast to outwit hungry Crocodile, who wants to eat her for dinner. One morning Mrs. Chicken took her bath in a puddle. “Cluck,...

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Hardcover : $14.95 Buy	My First Kwanzaa Karen Katz; illustrations by Karen Katz Henry Holt and Co. A simple way to get acquainted with Kwanzaa "Hooray! Hooray! It's time to get ready for Kwanzaa." During the seven days of Kwanzaa we celebrate the...

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Please, Malese!

A Trickster Tale from Haiti

Amy MacDonald; Pictures by Emily Lisker Melanie Kroupa Books

"Tom Sawyer looks like a small-time operator compared to the haitian trickster Malese . . . This well-paced, funny folktale will supplement social studies...

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The Hard-Times Jar

Ethel Footman Smothers; Pictures by John Holyfield Frances Foster Books

A look at the life of migrant workers through a child’s eyes Emma Turner loves books and dreams of one day having the store-bought kind, but the...

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Hardcover : $16.00 Buy	Elsina's Clouds Jeanette Winter Frances Foster Books A Basotho girl's prayer to the ancestors "When can I paint a wall, Mama?" "When the rains come and wash away my designs, Elsina. Then you can paint the...

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Jazzy Miz Mozetta

Brenda C. Roberts; Pictures by Frank Morrison Farrar, Straus and Giroux

"Okay, young cats, let the beat hit your feet." One fine evening, Miz Mozetta puts on her firecracker-red dress and heads outside to enjoy the moonlight....

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Going North

Janice N. Harrington; Pictures by Jerome Lagarrigue Melanie Kroupa Books

An African American family becomes a new kind of pioneer Leaving behind Big Mama, loving relatives, and the familiar red soil and cotton fields of Alabama,...

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Time's Memory

Julius Lester Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Amma is the creator god, the master of life and death, and he is worried. His people have always known how to take care of the spirits of the dead – the nyama...

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Brother Hood

Janet McDonald Frances Foster Books

Nate Whitely's life at a prestigious prep school in upstate New York takes him far from his Harlem home but not so far as to sever the strong bond he has to...

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The Escape of Oney Judge

Martha Washington’s Slave Finds Freedom

Emily Arnold McCully Farrar, Straus and Giroux

When General George Washington is elected the first President of the United States, his wife chooses young Oney Judge, a house slave who works as a seamstress...

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Head, Body, Legs

A Story from Liberia

Retold by Won-Ldy Paye and Margaret Lippert; Illustrated by Julie Paschkis Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks

A magical retelling of a Liberian creation story Head is all alone. Body bounces along. Arms swing about. Legs stand around. They can’t do much by...

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Underground

Jean Ferris Farrar, Straus and Giroux

In 1839, visitors from miles around come to Kentucky to tour Mammoth Cave. But sixteen-year-old Charlotte, the maid at Mammoth Cave Hotel, doesn’t understand...

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Off-Color

Janet McDonald Frances Foster Books

Spunky and headstrong, Cameron blasts music, challenges adults, and cuts class when she feels like it. She lives with her single mom in Brooklyn and hangs out...

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The Hat That Wore Clara B.

Melanie Turner-Denstaedt; Pictures by Frank Morrison Farrar, Straus and Giroux

On Mother’s Sunday at church, Clara B.’s grandma has the most beautiful hat of all the ladies. When people compliment her on it, she says, “Honey, I’m not...

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Mother Poems

Written and illustrated by Hope Anita Smith Henry Holt / Christy Ottaviano Books

Ayoung girl thinks of her mom as a superhero, a doctor, her North Star. She feels loved in her mother’s arms and capable of conquering the world. But when her...

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Hair Dance!

Dinah Johnson; Kelly Johnson, contributor Henry Holt and Co.

Hair comes in all colors, textures, and styles. Whether it is worn long or short, in braids or cornrows, or left natural in an Afro, hair plays a big part in...

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I Heard God Talking to Me

William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings

Elizabeth Spires Frances Foster Books

One night in the early 1930s, William Edmondson, the son of former slaves and a janitor in Nashville, Tennessee, heard God speaking to him. And so he began to...

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Hardcover : $17.95 Buy	New York Times Tree Shaker The Story of Nelson Mandela New York Times Bill Keller Kingfisher

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Yankee Girl

Mary Ann Rodman Square Fish

In 1964, living in Mississippi was like living in a foreign country.

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