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Product Description: “Belton does an admirable job of letting Leah describe her despair and the alienation she feels from her parents, especially her mother, whose own grief makes her seem insensitive to Leah… Readers who have experienced the complex range of emotions brought on by a tragedy of this nature will appreciate Belton’s sensitive depiction of loss...read more

Hardcover:

9780060850869 | Harperteen, May 1, 2006, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The death of Leah's beloved older brother, and her parents' reactions to the tragedy, raise questions for Leah about the meaning of family and about her place in her own.

Paperback:

9781508552093 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 30, 2015, cover price $7.78 | About this edition: “Belton does an admirable job of letting Leah describe her despair and the alienation she feels from her parents, especially her mother, whose own grief makes her seem insensitive to Leah… Readers who have experienced the complex range of emotions brought on by a tragedy of this nature will appreciate Belton’s sensitive depiction of loss.

Library:

9780060850876, titled "Store Bought Baby" | Harperteen, May 1, 2006, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: The death of Leah's beloved older brother, and her parents' reactions to the tragedy, raise questions for Leah about the meaning of family and about her place in her own.

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Product Description: “McKendree ain’t a who. It’s a place.” So begins this story about a group of teens who, for a variety of reasons, end up spending their summer at a lonely home for the elderly in the hills of West Virginia. “… As told by fourteen-year-old Tilara and the others, this is also a tale of tangled summer romance, an element which transcends predictability as it unfolds entertainingly through the multiple perspectives of the characters… what distinguishes this book is its honest exploration of prejudice as it exists within a culture—and perhaps still does...read more

Hardcover:

9780688159504 | Greenwillow, May 1, 2000, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: In 1948, while spending the summer with her aunt in West Virginia to find her family roots, Tilara begins visiting the 'colored' old folks' home called McKendree, makes new friends, and learns to love herself.

Paperback:

9781506178066 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 17, 2015, cover price $8.25 | About this edition: “McKendree ain’t a who.

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Paperback:

9781492148142 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 14, 2013, cover price $7.60

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For Members OnlySixth grade looks like a drag for Ernestine until Wilhelmina, a tall, smart, super cool newcomer, gets her to enter a school speech contest.Amanda loves sixth grade, especially her secret club for the cutest girls in her class -- and that definitely doesn't include fat Ernestine Harris.Amanda may be able to keep Ernestine out of C.L.U.B., but she can't keep her out of her life. Who would have thought Ernestine would turn up at C.L.U.B.'s reception for the contest winners? Or that Amanda and her family would be eating Thanksgiving dinner at Ernestine's house? And who would have thought that having Ernestine around might not be so terrible after all?

Paperback:

9781492148135 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 14, 2013, cover price $7.55

Prebinding:

9780613118620 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $11.70 | About this edition: For Members OnlySixth grade looks like a drag for Ernestine until Wilhelmina, a tall, smart, super cool newcomer, gets her to enter a school speech contest.

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Product Description: In seventh grade, Amanda has decided she's going to become a world-famous dancer - she's already one of the best students at Miss Davis's new dance studio on Monroe Street. Ernestine has no interest in taking ballet lessons - especially with all those skinny girls running around in leotards - but she loves playing piano for the classes...read more

Paperback:

9781492148104 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 14, 2013, cover price $7.55 | About this edition: In seventh grade, Amanda has decided she's going to become a world-famous dancer - she's already one of the best students at Miss Davis's new dance studio on Monroe Street.

Prebinding:

9780613159203 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $11.80

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Product Description: Amanda loves having a first-day-of-summer birthday party. She can invite anyone she wants - and that doesn't mean fatso Ernestine Harris. Ernestine hates having school start the week after her birthday. But it's great having a real Harris family party - and she isn't going to invite stuck-up Amanda Clay...read more

Paperback:

9781492148128, titled "Summer Camp: Ready or Not!" | Createspace Independent Pub, November 14, 2013, cover price $7.55 | About this edition: Amanda loves having a first-day-of-summer birthday party.

School and Library:

9780689808463, titled "Summer Camp, Ready or Not!" | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1997, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Ernestine and Amanda, two African-American girls growing up in the 1950s, go away to different summer camps and make discoveries about what they can expect from themselves and other people

Prebinding:

9780613088473 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $11.80 | About this edition: Ernestine and Amanda, two African-American girls growing up in the 1950s, go away to different summer camps and make discoveries about what they can expect from themselves and other people

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Product Description: Ernestine is too fat and acts like she can play the piano better than anyone - at least that's what Amanda thinks. Amanda is stuck-up and has a big mouth - Ernestine knows that's true. And to top it all off, Ernestine has stolen Amanda's best friend...read more

Hardcover:

9780689808487 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1996, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Although they do not like each other at first, two girls who take piano lessons from the same teacher, share friendship with twin sisters, and have their own personal problems each gradually find their feelings about the other changing

Paperback:

9781492148111 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 14, 2013, cover price $7.55 | About this edition: Ernestine is too fat and acts like she can play the piano better than anyone - at least that's what Amanda thinks.
9780689808470 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, June 1, 1998), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Although they do not like each other at first, two girls who take piano lessons from the same teacher, share friendship with twin sisters, and have their own personal problems each gradually find their feelings about the other changing

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Living in his rundown neighborhood, it's hard for him to imagine the way it must have been during Mr. Odell's younger years when people like Count Basie and Duke Ellington strolled the streets, but with the help of his friend and the planting of some new trees, Little Catfish is determined to return his community back to its glory state of yesteryear.

Hardcover:

9780060527495 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 2008, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Living in his rundown neighborhood, it's hard for him to imagine the way it must have been during Mr.

Library:

9780060527501 | Greenwillow, February 1, 2008, cover price $17.89 | About this edition: When a group of young African-American children learn about Paul Robeson from one of the neighborhood 'elders,' they decide to reclaim the town theater in order to celebrate Robeson's life.

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When Nana comes to visit, her granddaughter is excited about the stories she tells and knows that she has to decipher through the colorful narrative to get to the important lessons she is trying to convey about their lives, traditions, and their cultural heritage.
By Sandra Belton and Cozbi S. Cabrera (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780688178215 | Greenwillow, January 1, 2004, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: While visiting her grandmother in the Sea Islands, a young girl hears about her African heritage and learns to weave a sea grass basket.

Library:

9780688178222 | Greenwillow, January 1, 2004, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: While visiting her grandmother in the Sea Islands, a young girl hears about her African heritage and learns to weave a sea grass basket.

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When his father first takes him to meet Miss Josie, a young boy is somewhat intimadated by her, but through the coming years he comes to treasure her friendship and support and passes on his love of her to his own son. Based on the life of Josephine Carroll Smith.When his father first takes him to meet Miss Josie, a young boy is somewhat intimidated by her, but through the coming years he comes to treasure her friendship and support and passes on his love of her to his own son.

Library:

9780688174811 | Greenwillow, April 1, 2003, cover price $17.89 | About this edition: When his father first takes him to meet Miss Josie, a young boy is somewhat intimadated by her, but through the coming years he comes to treasure her friendship and support and passes on his love of her to his own son.

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In the evening the residents of Church Street gather on Miss Ida's porch to share memories and hear stories about events in the past, events significant to them as Black people

Paperback:

9780689818028, titled "From Miss Ida's Porch" | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, January 1, 1998), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: In the evening the residents of Church Street gather on Miss Ida's porch to share memories and hear stories about events in the past, events significant to them as Black people

School and Library:

9780027089158, titled "From Miss Ida's Porch" | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1993, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: In the evening the residents of Church Street gather on Miss Ida's porch to share memories and hear stories about events in the past, events significant to them as Black people

Prebinding:

9780613050234, titled "From Miss Ida's Porch" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.55 | About this edition: In the evening the residents of Church Street gather on Miss Ida's porch to share memories and hear stories about events in the past, events significant to them as Black people

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Between the prejudicial problems facing her community after the Supreme Court declared segregated schools illegal and the recent divorce of her best-friend's parents, Ernestine begins to see the world in a different and darker way then ever before. Reprint.

Paperback:

9780689816628 | Aladdin Paperbacks, July 1, 1999, cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Ernestine and Amanda, two African-American twelve-year-olds growing up under segregation in the 1950s, are brought together when the all black dance studio where they take lessons is attacked by vandals.

School and Library:

9780689816123 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1998, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Ernestine and Amanda, two African-American twelve-year-olds growing up under segregation in the 1950s, are brought together when the all black dance studio where they take lessons is attacked by vandals.

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In eighth grade, Amanda starts a club that purposefully excludes her long-time enemy Ernestine, but when the club decides to host a reception for the winners of a speech competition, Amanda gets an unexpected surprise. Original.

Paperback:

9780689816611 | Aladdin Paperbacks, October 1, 1998, cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Amanda forms a club for the girls in her class, excluding Ernestine, who is busy preparing a speech

Reinforced:

9780606171250, titled "Ernestine and Amanda, Members of the C.L.U.B" | Demco Media, June 1, 1998, cover price $11.76 | About this edition: Amanda forms a club for the girls in her class, excluding Ernestine, who is busy preparing a speech

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In the light of Ernestine's father's recent unemployment and Amanda's parents' separation, both girls dread going away to summer camps, where they learn surprising truths about friendship. Reprint. SLJ.

Paperback:

9780689808456 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, June 1, 1998), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Ernestine and Amanda, two African-American girls growing up in the 1950s, go away to different summer camps and make discoveries about what they can expect from themselves and other people

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For Ernestine and Amanda, the sixth grade brings dance classes, pajama parties, the arrival of the 'cutest boy on the planet,' new friends, and the formation of Amanda's exclusive club, C.L.U.B.--an organization that excludes Ernestine from membership.
By Sandra Belton and Nancy Carpenter (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780689816116 | Simon & Schuster, November 1, 1997, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Amanda forms a club for the girls in her class, excluding Ernestine, who is busy preparing a speech

Little Miss loves to look at Big Mama's scrapbook filled with ticket stubs, old flowers, and, best of all, wraparounds, a series of photographs that capture memories of family and family history, and to listen to Big Mama's reminiscences of the past.
By Sandra Belton and Gail Gordon Carter (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780027090352 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Big Mama reminisces with her grandchild about a childhood experience that helped inspire her to be the first member of her family to attend college

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