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Mr. Bigalow's edge is not just in his scissors but in his vocabulary, his respect for education, and his wit, making his barbershop a popular spot in the Black community, and making him a good role model for young Rashaad

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9780892391967 | Childrens Book Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Mr.

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9780892391271 | Childrens Book Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Mr.

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9781435265318 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 25, 2008), cover price $16.95

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With Election Day just around the corner, Simms excitedly begins teaching his father how to sign his name so that his father's first voting experience can be as proud and exciting as every other free man.

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9780823416509 | Holiday House, July 1, 2003, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: After his son helps him learn to write his name, Samuel T.

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Derrick wants to play music from the heart like his Uncle Booker T., but just isn't able to reach the mark, yet when his uncle doesn't come around for lessons one day, Derrick's heart takes over causing him to play with all the passion in his soul.

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9780823413539 | Holiday House, March 1, 2000, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Uncle Booker T.

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An old woman, Miss Annie Mae, willingly shares all she has and is repaid by the mysterious Raven Reed with a bag that provides for all her needs.

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9780807573280 | Albert Whitman & Co, March 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An old African-American woman willingly shares all she has and is repaid with a bag that provides for all her needs.

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Wanting to go to school more than anything else, young sharecropper Wizielee works in the fields, cooks the noonday meal, and envies the landlord's daughter, until a humorous kitchen disaster makes her dream come true.

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9780823411856 | Holiday House, September 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Wezielee, the youngest child in a sharecropper's family, longs to go to school, but during harvest season Papa insists that she stay home and prepare the midday meal while he and the others work in the fields

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