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Jazz

An American Saga

James Lincoln Collier Henry Holt and Co.

One thing we can be sure of is that jazz was invented in America. From the small sunlit barns that dotted the Louisiana countryside around the turn of the...

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Year of No Rain

Alice Mead Farrar, Straus and Giroux

"An artfully told story . . . The history, the land, and the determination of a band of refugees to care for each other are vividly evoked in this important...

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The Night of the Burning

Devorah's Story

Linda Press Wulf Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Devorah’s world is shattered by the tragedies of post–Great War Europe: gas poisoning, famine, typhoid, and influenza. Then comes the Night of the Burning,...

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The Year the Gypsies Came

Linzi Glass Henry Holt and Co.

Set in apartheid South Africa, this powerful and lyrically written novel is Linzi Glass’s debut. As twelve-year-old Emily Iris explains it, her mother and...

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The Cow-Tail Switch

And Other West African Stories

Harold Courlander and George Herzog; Illustrated by Madye Lee Chastain Square Fish

17 stories make up this unique collection of folktales brought to life by illustrations throughout the text.

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The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay

Life in Medieval Africa

Patricia and Fredrick McKissack Henry Holt and Co.

For more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that...

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Zulu Dog

Anton Ferreira Frances Foster Books

"Two children and a dog offer a tentative hope for a strife-ridden, modern South Africa . . . Vusi is a meticulously drawn character, whose singleminded...

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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...

Trade Paperback : $7.95 Buy	We're Going on a Lion Hunt David Axtell; illustrations by David Axtell Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks This charming version of a well-known chant takes place on the African savanna In this beautifully illustrated rendition of a well-known children’s chant,...

Hardcover : $18.95 Buy	Monkey Business Stories from Around the World Shirley Climo; illustrated by Erik Brooks Henry Holt and Co. If someone is a "monkey dodger" what does he do? A collection of stories, facts, and lore about monkeys from around the world This definitive collection...

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