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Paperback:
9780385309141 | Delta, July 1, 1993, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Includes a foreword by Spike Lee, the screenplay for the film Poetic Justice (starring Janet Jackson), poetry by Maya Angelou, and sixteen pages of photographs from the set  At twenty-four, John Singleton became the youngest filmmaker and only African American to ever be nominated for Best Director (and Best Screenplay) for Boyz N the Hood, his debut feature film.
Recounts the vibrant personalities and remarkable cultural movements that flourished in America's leading Black community during the 1920s and 1930s
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9780791025987, titled "The Harlem Renaissance" | Chelsea House Pub, September 1, 1997, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Recounts the vibrant personalities and remarkable cultural movements that flourished in America's leading Black community during the 1920s and 1930s
Library:
9780791025970, titled "The Harlem Renaissance" | Chelsea House Pub, September 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Recounts the vibrant personalities and remarkable cultural movements that flourished in America's leading Black community during the 1920s and 1930s
Prebinding:
9780613116138 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $19.15 | About this edition: Recounts the vibrant personalities and remarkable cultural movements that flourished in America's leading Black community during the 1920s and 1930s
School and Library:
9780152018030 | Harcourt Childrens Books, March 1, 1998, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A fictional account of the 1839 revolt of Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad and the subsequent legal case argued before the Supreme Court in 1841 by former president John Quincy Adams
Hardcover:
9780689810244 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1998, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Separated from her best friend in Brooklyn, thirteen-year-old Marisol spends a year with her grandmother in Panama where she secretly searches for her real father
Library:
9780817255107 | Heinemann/Raintree, September 1, 1998, cover price $25.69 | About this edition: Joseph Cinqué is afraid heâll never see his family again.
Eagerly anticipating her Quinceaänera, the fifteenth birthday celebration that will signify her adulthood, Marisol is troubled by a lack of money, her mother's new boyfriend, changes in her best friend, and the absence of the father she never knew.
Hardcover:
9780786804979 | Hyperion, March 1, 2001, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Eagerly anticipating her Quinceaänera, the fifteenth birthday celebration that will signify her adulthood, Marisol is troubled by a lack of money, her mother's new boyfriend, changes in her best friend, and the absence of the father she never knew.
Library:
9780786824267 | Hyperion, March 1, 2001, cover price $16.49 | About this edition: Eagerly anticipating her Quinceaänera, the fifteenth birthday celebration that will signify her adulthood, Marisol is troubled by a lack of money, her mother's new boyfriend, changes in her best friend, and the absence of the father she never knew.
Hardcover:
9780786805129 | 1 edition (Jump at the Sun, October 1, 2002), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Provides history, examples, and stories of the rope-jumping activity called double Dutch.
Hardcover:
9780385509008 | Doubleday, May 1, 2004, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Adoring her talented magician father and heritage-proud mother, Angela finds her life altered when her mother leaves the family to join the cause of Black Liberation leader Assata Shakur, who has recently escaped from prison.
Separated from her best friend in Brooklyn, thirteen-year-old Marisol spends a year with her grandmother in Panama where she secretly searches for her real father.
Reinforced:
9780606309691 | Demco Media, August 30, 2004, cover price $14.55 | About this edition: Separated from her best friend in Brooklyn, thirteen-year-old Marisol spends a year with her grandmother in Panama where she secretly searches for her real father.
Paperback:
9780786813636 | Hyperion, September 1, 2005, cover price $8.99
An offbeat and whimsical handbook celebrates the joys and freedom of revealing one's personal failures, quirks, imperfections, shortcomings, and limitations, explaining how these less-than-perfect qualities can become sources of satisfaction and liberation. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780385512121 | Broadway Books, April 4, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A whimsical handbook celebrates the joys and freedom of revealing one's personal failures, quirks, imperfections, shortcomings, and limitations, explaining how these less-than-perfect qualities can become sources of satisfaction and liberation.
Paperback:
9780767917483 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, May 8, 2007), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: An offbeat and whimsical handbook celebrates the joys and freedom of revealing one's personal failures, quirks, imperfections, shortcomings, and limitations, explaining how these less-than-perfect qualities can become sources of satisfaction and liberation.
Miscellaneous:
9780767923903 | Crown Pub, April 4, 2006, cover price $17.95
Adoring her talented magician father and heritage-proud mother, Angela finds her life altered when her mother leaves the family to join the cause of Black Liberation leader Assata Shakur, who has recently escaped from prison.
Paperback:
9780767914673 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, June 14, 2005), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Adoring her talented magician father and heritage-proud mother, Angela finds her life altered when her mother leaves the family to join the cause of Black Liberation leader Assata Shakur, who has recently escaped from prison.
Miscellaneous:
9780307419132 | Broadway Books, December 18, 2007, cover price $15.00
Examines the lives of more than fifty successful middle- and upper-middle class African American women to document their achievements, inspirations, family lives, national contributions, and struggles with a stereotyping society.
Hardcover:
9780385506380, titled "Having It All: Black Women and Success" | 1 edition (Doubleday, January 1, 2003), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Examines the lives of more than fifty successful middle- and upper-middle class African American women to document their achievements, inspirations, family lives, national contributions, and struggles with a stereotyping society.
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9780767912396 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, January 1, 2004), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Examines the lives of more than fifty successful middle- and upper-middle class African-American women to document their significant educational and workplace achievements, inspirations, family lives, national contributions, and struggles with a stereotyping society.
Miscellaneous:
9780307419026 | Broadway Books, December 18, 2007, cover price $14.00
Miscellaneous:
9780446543781 | 5 Spot, May 30, 2008, cover price $9.99
Product Description: Separated from her best friend in Brooklyn, thirteen-year-old Marisol spends a year with her grandmother in Panama where she secretly searches for her real father.
Hardcover:
9780786804375 | Hyperion, September 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Separated from her best friend in Brooklyn, thirteen-year-old Marisol spends a year with her grandmother in Panama where she secretly searches for her real father
Paperback:
9780786813049 | Hyperion, March 1, 2001, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Separated from her best friend in Brooklyn, thirteen-year-old Marisol spends a year with her grandmother in Panama where she secretly searches for her real father.
Library:
9780786823857 | Hyperion, September 1, 1998, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Separated from her best friend in Brooklyn, thirteen-year-old Marisol spends a year with her grandmother in Panama where she secretly searches for her real father
Prebinding:
9781439531839 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Separated from her best friend in Brooklyn, thirteen-year-old Marisol spends a year with her grandmother in Panama where she secretly searches for her real father.
9780613606424 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Separated from her best friend in Brooklyn, thirteen-year-old Marisol spends a year with her grandmother in Panama where she secretly searches for her real father.
Hardcover:
9781430102816 | Har/cas edition (Live Oak Media, October 31, 2008), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Everyone knows the flamboyant, larger-than-life Celia Cruz, the extraordinary salsa singer who passed away in 2003, leaving millions of fans brokenhearted.
9781430102847 | Pck har/co edition (Live Oak Media, October 31, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Everyone knows the flamboyant, larger-than-life Celia Cruz, the extraordinary salsa singer who passed away in 2003, leaving millions of fans brokenhearted.
Paperback:
9781430102809 | Pap/cas edition (Live Oak Media, October 31, 2008), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Everyone knows the flamboyant, larger-than-life Celia Cruz, the extraordinary salsa singer who passed away in 2003, leaving millions of fans brokenhearted.
9781430102830 | Pck pap/cd edition (Live Oak Media, October 31, 2008), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Everyone knows the flamboyant, larger-than-life Celia Cruz, the extraordinary salsa singer who passed away in 2003, leaving millions of fans brokenhearted.
9781430102823 | Pap/cas edition (Live Oak Media, August 30, 2008), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Everyone knows the flamboyant, larger-than-life Celia Cruz, the extraordinary salsa singer who passed away in 2003, leaving millions of fans brokenhearted.
9781430102854 | Pap/com edition (Live Oak Media, August 30, 2008), cover price $39.95
9780142407790 | Reprint edition (Puffin, July 19, 2007), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Offers a look at the childhood of the world-famous Cuban salsa singer, and the early inspirations that helped her rags-to-riches dream come true.
School and Library:
9780803729704 | Dial Books for Young Readers, June 16, 2005, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Offers a look at the childhood of this world-famous Cuban salsa singer, and the early inspirations that helped her rags-to-riches dream come true.
Product Description: On the streets of Brooklyn in the 1970s, Veronica Chambers mastered the whirling helixes of a double-dutch jump rope with the same finesse she brought to her schoolwork, her often troubled family life, and the demands of being overachieving and underprivileged...read more
Hardcover:
9781573220309, titled "Mama's Girl" | Putnam Pub Group, June 1, 1996, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In this memoir, a young African-American writer describes growing up in Brooklyn with her mother and little brother as a member of the post-Civil Rights generation, discussing her relationship with her mother and the hard times they faced
Paperback:
9781573225991, titled "Mama's Girl" | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, May 1, 1997), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In this memoir, a young African American writer describes growing up in Brooklyn with her mother and little brother as a member of the post-Civil Rights generation
Reinforced:
9780606240147, titled "Mama's Girl" | Demco Media, September 1, 2002, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: In this memoir, a young African American writer describes growing up in Brooklyn with her mother and little brother as a member of the post-Civil Rights generation
Prebinding:
9781435242517, titled "Mama's Girl" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: On the streets of Brooklyn in the 1970s, Veronica Chambers mastered the whirling helixes of a double-dutch jump rope with the same finesse she brought to her schoolwork, her often troubled family life, and the demands of being overachieving and underprivileged.
9781439569719, titled "Mama's Girl" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 11, 2008), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: On the streets of Brooklyn in the 1970s, Veronica Chambers mastered the whirling helixes of a double-dutch jump rope with the same finesse she brought to her schoolwork, her often troubled family life, and the demands of being overachieving and underprivileged.
9780613022095, titled "Mama's Girl" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In this memoir, a young African American writer describes growing up in Brooklyn with her mother and little brother as a member of the post-Civil Rights generation
Paperback:
9781423123620 | 1 edition (Hyperion, May 11, 2010), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Summer has arrived in Miami and that means quinceanera season.
Paperback:
9781595141651 | Reprint edition (Razorbill, August 5, 2010), cover price $8.99
Miscellaneous:
9781101458594 | Razorbill, August 5, 2010, cover price $7.99
Paperback:
9781423123637, titled "Lights, Camera, Quince!: Lights, Camera, Quince!" | 1 edition (Disney Pr, August 17, 2010), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Amigas is officially open for business!
Paperback:
9781423123644 | 1 edition (Disney Pr, September 14, 2010), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Amigas have definitely arrived.
Hardcover:
9780743271561 | Free Pr, January 9, 2007, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Evaluates the myriad ways in which modern Japanese women are reshaping their traditional roles, profiling today's Japanese businesswomen, fashionistas, and voluntary singles who have melded eastern and western modes of thought.
Paperback:
9780743271578 | Free Pr, December 1, 2010, cover price $18.99
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9781423123651 | Disney Pr, March 15, 2011, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: It's time for some Texas-sized adventure for Amigas Incorporated!
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9781423123668 | Disney Pr, May 10, 2011, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: For Carmen, though, the pressure is the highest.
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9781423123675 | Disney Pr, September 13, 2011, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: After two years of planning the hottest quineaneras in Miami and beyond, the girls of Amigas Incorporated are facing their biggest challenge yet--high school graduation.
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