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Not without Laughter

Langston Hughes

Saga of a boy growing into manhood has become an enduring classic of African-American literature.

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Blue Tights

Rita Williams-Garcia

Growing up in a city neighborhood, fifteen-year-old Joyce, unsure of herself and not quite comfortable with her maturing body, tries to find a place to belong and a way to express herself through danc

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What Looks Like Crazy On an Ordinary Day--

Pearl Cleage

Ava Johnson returns to her hometown now filled with many problems, whose ordinariness once turned her away.

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Seedfolks

Paul Fleischman

One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed

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