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23 Ways to Mess Up Valentine's Day

Valerie Wilson Wesley

Willimena Thomas, worried that she will not get any Valentine cards from her classmates and friends, takes her sister's advice and sends herself some cards, but her troubles begin when she gets carrie

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Small Steps

Louis Sachar

Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concer

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Small Steps

Louis Sachar

Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concer

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Sojourner Truth

Peter Roop

Describes the life and achievements of nineteenth-century African-American activist Sojourner Truth through her own recollections and the writings of individuals she knew.

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Who Was Louis Armstrong?

Yona Zeldis McDonough

Presents a short study of singer, songwriter, and jazz musician Louis Armstrong and chronicles his childhood in New Orleans and rise in the entertainment industry.

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Who Was Harriet Tubman?

Yona Zeldis McDonough

A biography of the ninteenth-century woman who escaped slavery and helped many other slaves get to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

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The Voice That Challenged a Nation

Russell Freedman

Tells the life story of singer Marian Anderson, describing her famous 1939 Lincoln Memorial performance and explaining how she helped end segregation in the American arts after being refused the right

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The Well

Mildred D. Taylor

In Mississippi in the early 1900s, ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and African-American neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.

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Mississippi Bridge

Mildred D. Taylor

During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and the

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The Lost Village of Central Park

Hope Lourie Killcoyne

In Seneca Village, a thriving neighborhood of African- Americans and recent immigrants in the middle of New York City in the 1850s, friends Kayla and Sooncy face separation when the city announces tha

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