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When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier. Includes a brief overview of the experiences of African Americans during Reconstruction, the period immediately following the Civil War.When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier.

Paperback:

9781609589141 | Reprint edition (Amer Girl, February 28, 2015), cover price $9.99 | also contains Shadows on Society Hill: An Addy Mystery

Prebinding:

9781417776030 | Turtleback Books, February 20, 2007, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier.

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Product Description: There was a "White's Only" sign on a nearby fountain, but that didn't bother this child--after all, she was wearing her clean white socks. Evelyn Coleman combines memories of her Southern childhood with magical realism to create a story that resonates with power...read more
By Evelyn Coleman and Tyrone Geter (illustrator)

Paperback:

9780807589564 | Albert Whitman & Co, September 1, 1999, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi.

School and Library:

9780807589557 | Albert Whitman & Co, March 1, 1996, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi.

Library:

9781489623959 | Weigl Pub Inc, July 15, 2014, cover price $34.28 | About this edition: There was a "White's Only" sign on a nearby fountain, but that didn't bother this child--after all, she was wearing her clean white socks.

Prebinding:

9780613229609 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi.

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As Cécile exits a crowded showboat after enjoying a lavish Floating Circus, she stumbles--and when she gets up, she realizes that the cameo necklace she borrowed from her aunt is no longer on her neck. Knowing that the necklace was the last gift Tante Tay's husband gave her before he died, Cécile is desperate to find it. As she tracks down the people in the crowd who were near her when she fell, her search takes her into many corners of New Orleans, from a society tea party to the crowded French Market, even the dangerous cypress swamps...and deep into secrets she never imagined! An illustrated "Looking Back" essay provides facts about the 1850s.

Hardcover:

9781593698997 | Amer Girl, February 28, 2012, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: As Cécile exits a crowded showboat after enjoying a lavish Floating Circus, she stumbles--and when she gets up, she realizes that the cameo necklace she borrowed from her aunt is no longer on her neck.

Paperback:

9781593699000 | Amer Girl, February 28, 2012, cover price $6.95

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Product Description: Now in paperback, an enthralling account of a young boy’s struggle to help freedom triumph over fear in the 1940s American South. It’s 1947, and twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason is proud to have an older brother who guards the Freedom Train—a train that is traveling to all forty-eight states carrying the country’s most important documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights...read more

Hardcover:

9780689847165 | Margaret K McElderry, January 8, 2008, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason's older brother is a guard on the Freedom Train, which is carrying the Bill of Rights and other documents throughout the country in 1948, but Clyde is also learning about rights and freedom as he is saved from a beating by an African American boy, and later returns the favor when men in their Atlanta suburb decide to show the 'Nigras' their place.

Paperback:

9781442436527 | Reprint edition (Margaret K McElderry, January 3, 2012), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Now in paperback, an enthralling account of a young boy’s struggle to help freedom triumph over fear in the 1940s American South.

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Product Description: In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.

Paperback:

9781607541899 | Rosen Pub Group, January 1, 2009, cover price $15.25 | About this edition: In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.

Library:

9781607541882 | Rosen Pub Group, January 1, 2009, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.

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Product Description: Mendy, a 12-year-old-girl in 1958 Tennessee, must find a way to warn officials about the KKK's plan to bomb the school during a speech.

Hardcover:

9781584853404 | Amer Girl Pub, August 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In 1958, Mendy puts herself in danger when she discovers that the Ku Klux Klan is planning to bomb the Highlander Folk School in order to disrupt a visit from Mendy's hero, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Paperback:

9781607541929 | Rosen Pub Group, January 1, 2009, cover price $15.25 | About this edition: Mendy, a 12-year-old-girl in 1958 Tennessee, must find a way to warn officials about the KKK's plan to bomb the school during a speech.
9781584853398 | Amer Girl Pub, August 1, 2001, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: In 1958, Mendy puts herself in danger when she discovers that the Ku Klux Klan is planning to bomb the Highlander Folk School in order to disrupt a visit from Mendy's hero, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Library:

9781607541912 | Rosen Pub Group, January 1, 2009, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Mendy, a 12-year-old-girl in 1958 Tennessee, must find a way to warn officials about the KKK's plan to bomb the school during a speech.

Reinforced:

9780606212496 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $14.49 | About this edition: In 1958, Mendy puts herself in danger when she discovers that the Ku Klux Klan is planning to bomb the Highlander Folk School in order to disrupt a visit from Mendy's hero, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Prebinding:

9780613446402 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $14.40 | About this edition: In 1958, Mendy puts herself in danger when she discovers that the Ku Klux Klan is planning to bomb the Highlander Folk School in order to disrupt a visit from Mendy's hero, Eleanor Roosevelt.

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When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier. Includes a brief overview of the experiences of African Americans during Reconstruction, the period immediately following the Civil War.When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier.

Hardcover:

9781593691639 | Amer Girl, February 20, 2007, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier.
9780124095809, titled "Cognitive Strategies and Educational Performance" | Academic Pr, December 1, 1983, cover price $59.00 | also contains Cognitive Strategies and Educational Performance

Paperback:

9781609589141 | Reprint edition (Amer Girl, February 28, 2015), cover price $9.99 | also contains Shadows on Society Hill: An Addy Mystery
9781593691622 | Amer Girl, February 20, 2007, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier.

Prebinding:

9781435206298 | Paw Prints, May 15, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier.

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Product Description: Childen's story

Paperback:

9780153335716 | Houghton Mifflin School, June 30, 2004, cover price $5.70 | About this edition: Childen's story

Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, fourteen-year-old Keisha pursues her dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer and medical doctor.

Paperback:

9780689855528 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, January 1, 2003), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, fourteen-year-old Keisha pursues her dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer and medical doctor.

School and Library:

9780689838330 | Atheneum, March 1, 2001, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, fourteen-year-old Keisha pursues her dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer and medical doctor.

Reinforced:

9780606274883 | Demco Media, March 1, 2003, cover price $14.55 | About this edition: Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, fourteen-year-old Keisha pursues her dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer and medical doctor.

Prebinding:

9780613606547 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $14.55 | About this edition: Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, fourteen-year-old Keisha pursues her dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer and medical doctor.

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Daddy Wes tells how Africans were brought to America as slaves, but promises his children that as long as they can hear the rhythm of the earth, they will be free

Paperback:

9780807580073 | Albert Whitman & Co, September 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Daddy Wes tells how Africans were brought to America as slaves, but promises his children that as long as they can hear the rhythm of the earth, they will be free

School and Library:

9780807580066 | Albert Whitman & Co, February 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Daddy Wes tells how Africans were brought to America as slaves, but promises his children that as long as they can hear the rhythm of the earth, they will be free

Reinforced:

9780606312202 | Demco Media, August 30, 2004, cover price $15.77 | About this edition: Daddy Wes tells how Africans were brought to America as slaves, but promises his children that as long as they can hear the rhythm of the earth, they will be free

Prebinding:

9780613318228 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: Daddy Wes tells how Africans were brought to America as slaves, but promises his children that as long as they can hear the rhythm of the earth, they will be free

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In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.

Hardcover:

9781584850854 | Amer Girl Pub, March 1, 2000, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.

Paperback:

9781584850847 | Amer Girl Pub, March 1, 2000, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.

Reinforced:

9780606183567 | Demco Media, April 1, 2000, cover price $15.49 | About this edition: In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.

Prebinding:

9780613263351 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $14.40 | About this edition: In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.

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Tough-talking Atlanta journalist Patricia Conely is stunned after a series of alarming discoveries--her car is doused in blood, a woman is found dead, and her brother offers his too-good-to-be-true services--leading her on a collision course with a deadly secret. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780684831756 | Simon & Schuster, March 1, 1998, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Left jilted and stranded at the altar, Patricia is puzzled to discover that her fiance left behind a safety deposit box full of money and jewels and becomes even more concerned when she hears reports that he has been seen in her car bleeding from a gunshot wound

Paperback:

9780440235002 | Dell Pub Co, August 1, 1999, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: Left jilted and stranded at the altar, Patricia is puzzled to discover that her fiance left behind a safety deposit box full of money and jewels and becomes even more concerned when she hears reports that he has been seen in her car bleeding from a gunshot wound

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This true story tells the tale of a young girl who quit school to help her grandmother with her work and then donated all of her savings at the end of her life to a university for people facing the same financial struggles she had experienced as a child.
By Evelyn Coleman, Daniel Minter (illustrator) and Fred Willingham (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780807569610 | Albert Whitman & Co, November 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A brief biography of Oseola McCarty, a hard-working washer woman who, without a formal education herself, donated a portion of her life savings to the University of Southern Mississippi to endow a scholarship fund for needy students.

Living together way out in the country, an African American girl and her grandmother have such a close relationship that they communicate without words
By Gail Gordon Carter (illustrator) and Evelyn Coleman

School and Library:

9780531094679 | Orchard Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Living together way out in the country, an African American girl and her grandmother have such a close relationship that they communicate without words
9780531087671 | Orchard Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Living together way out in the country, an African American girl and her grandmother have such a close relationship that they communicate without words

While trying to find a place to practice playing her cymbals, a young girl discovers that the old woman who lives next door is different from what others think about her.

Hardcover:

9780027228175 | Atheneum, March 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | also contains Cymbals, The Complete Book of Home Design | About this edition: While trying to find a place to practice playing her cymbals, a young girl discovers that the old woman who lives next door is different from what others think about her.

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A wise old crow comes to the aid of Hezekiah, a slave seeking to escape his cruel owner, Master Thompson, by advising him to discover the weaknesses of his owner in order to gain a head start on his journey to freedom.
By Evelyn Coleman and Daniel Minter (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780027228168 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A patient slave finally wins his freedom through his own cleverness and the advice of a crow

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