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Product Description: Joyce Hansen's Coretta Scott King Honor Book I THOUGHT MY SOUL WOULD RISE AND FLY is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!Patsy, an orphaned slave with a bad leg and a quiet nature, is considered slow by the Davis family...read more

Library:

9780545280907 | Reprint edition (Scholastic, July 1, 2011), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Joyce Hansen's Coretta Scott King Honor Book I THOUGHT MY SOUL WOULD RISE AND FLY is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!

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Product Description: Now that she is turning thirteen, Maria Peterson envisions new adult prestige and responsibility, like attending abolitionist meetings and listening to inspiring speakers such as Sojourner Truth. The year also brings trials and tribulations for her family and friends, however...read more
By Joyce Hansen and E. B. Lewis (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780786852178, titled "Home Is with Our Family: Home Is With Our Family" | 1 edition (Jump at the Sun, December 21, 2010), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Now that she is turning thirteen, Maria Peterson envisions new adult prestige and responsibility, like attending abolitionist meetings and listening to inspiring speakers such as Sojourner Truth.

Product Description: Obi had never forgotten the sounds of his mother's screams on the day he was sold away from her. Making plans to run away to find her was a secret game he played with friend Buka, an old African who lived at the edge of the farm.When the Civil War began, Obi knew it was time to run -- or be sold again...read more

Hardcover:

9780844669724, titled "Which Way Freedom" | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1999, cover price $18.75 | About this edition: Obi had never forgotten the sounds of his mother's screams on the day he was sold away from her.
9780802766236, titled "Which Way Freedom" | Walker & Co, June 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A sensitive story set at the time of the American Civil War focuses on a young slave boy's struggle to find out what his own freedom means

Paperback:

9780380714087 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, February 1, 1992), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: A sensitive story set at the time of the American Civil War focuses on a young slave boy's struggle to find out what his own freedom means

Library:

9780802766366, titled "Which Way Freedom" | Walker & Co, June 1, 1986, cover price $13.85 | About this edition: A sensitive story set at the time of the American Civil War focuses on a young slave boy's struggle to find out what his own freedom means

Reinforced:

9780606008259 | Demco Media, February 1, 1992, cover price $13.45 | About this edition: A sensitive story set at the time of the American Civil War focuses on a young slave boy's struggle to find out what his own freedom means

Prebinding:

9781435263918 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 25, 2008), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Obi had never forgotten the sounds of his mother's screams on the day he was sold away from her.
9780785705765 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A sensitive story set at the time of the American Civil War focuses on a young slave boy's struggle to find out what his own freedom means

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In a lavishly photographed volume, readers are introduced to the inspiring stories of African-American women who blazed uncharted paths in journalism, politics, law, education, science, and the arts to make a better world. Reprint.

Paperback:

9780590939744 | Reprint edition (Scholastic, January 1, 2007), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Features photographs and biographies of thirteen African American women, including Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee, and Alice Walker.

Prebinding:

9781435200289 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 15, 2007), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Features photographs and biographies of thirteen African American women, including Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee, and Alice Walker.

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Features photographs and biographies of thirteen African American women, including Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee, and Alice Walker.

School and Library:

9780590939737 | Scholastic, November 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Features photographs and biographies of thirteen African American women, including Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee, and Alice Walker

Prebinding:

9781417765485 | Turtleback Books, January 1, 2007, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: Features photographs and biographies of thirteen African American women, including Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee, and Alice Walker.

Ten-year-old Doris's gradual friendship with the new boy in her inner-city neighborhood, Amir, brings her into closer understanding with her family even though it divides her from her old friends

Hardcover:

9780395294338, titled "Gift Giver" | Clarion Books, August 25, 1980, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Ten-year-old Doris's gradual friendship with the new boy in her inner-city neighborhood, Amir, brings her into closer understanding with her family even though it divides her from her old friends

Paperback:

9780618611232 | Houghton Mifflin, October 17, 2005, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Ten-year-old Doris's gradual friendship with the new boy in her inner-city neighborhood, Amir, brings her into a closer understanding with her family even though it divides her from her old friends.
9780899198521 | Clarion Books, March 1, 1989, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Ten-year-old Doris's gradual friendship with the new boy in her inner-city neighborhood, Amir, brings her into closer understanding with her family even though it divides her from her old friends

Miscellaneous:

9780547346205 | Houghton Mifflin, October 17, 2005, cover price $6.95

Reinforced:

9780606162548 | Demco Media, September 1, 1999, cover price $15.60 | About this edition: Ten-year-old Doris's gradual friendship with the new boy in her inner-city neighborhood, Amir, brings her into closer understanding with her family even though it divides her from her old friends

Prebinding:

9780833528735 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $15.55 | About this edition: Ten-year-old Doris's gradual friendship with the new boy in her inner-city neighborhood, Amir, brings her into closer understanding with her family even though it divides her from her old friends

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Product Description: The two-time Coretta Scott King Honor Book recipient offers a poignant narrative about a freed slave girl during the Reconstruction Era in the South.

Hardcover:

9781595194701 | Har/cas edition (Live Oak Media, June 1, 2005), cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The two-time Coretta Scott King Honor Book recipient offers a poignant narrative about a freed slave girl during the Reconstruction Era in the South.

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Offers a collection of six tales about six royal women of Africa from different periods in history, including a princess struggling to survive during the rise of the slave trade and a royal woman dealing with issues in the ancient world in 1473 B.C.
By Joyce Hansen and Laurie McGaw (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780786851164 | Jump at the Sun, August 1, 2004, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Offers a collection of six tales about six royal women of Africa from different periods in history, including a princess struggling to survive during the rise of the slave trade and a royal woman dealing with issues in the ancient world in 1473 B.

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The two-time Coretta Scott King Honor Book recipient offers a poignant narrative about a freed slave girl during the Reconstruction Era in the South.

Hardcover:

9780545266864 | Scholastic, July 1, 2011, cover price $12.99
9781595194770, titled "I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy a Freed Girl" | Pck har/co edition (Live Oak Media, July 30, 2005), cover price $45.95

CD/Spoken Word:

9781595194763 | Live Oak Media, July 30, 2005, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The two-time Coretta Scott King Honor Book recipient offers a poignant narrative about a freed slave girl during the Reconstruction Era in the South.

School and Library:

9780590849135 | Scholastic, October 1, 1997, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves

Library:

9780439555050 | Scholastic, October 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves

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Shows how archaeologists and historians sift through corn cobs and root cellars, study songs and quilts, and use the latest technology to reconstruct the secret Underground Railroad, offering a fresh look at the escape routes used by American slaves. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780812626735 | 1 edition (Cricket Books, April 1, 2003), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Shows how archaeologists and historians sift through root cellars, study songs and quilts, and use the latest technology to reconstruct the Underground Railroad, offering a look at the escape routes used by American slaves.

After fighting as a Union officer in the Civil War, former slave Obi Booker returns to South Carolina to make a new life for himself and his beloved Easter.

Hardcover:

9780802786364, titled "The Heart Calls Home" | Walker & Co, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: After the Civil War, former slave Obi Booker tries to make a new life on a South Carolina island while waiting to be joined by his beloved Easter, who is studying in the North

Paperback:

9780380732944, titled "The Heart Calls Home" | Reprint edition (Trophy Pr, January 1, 2002), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: After fighting as a Union officer in the Civil War, former slave Obi Booker returns to South Carolina to make a new life for himself and his beloved Easter.

Reinforced:

9780606244626, titled "The Heart Calls Home" | Demco Media, April 1, 2002, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: After fighting as a Union officer in the Civil War, former slave Obi Booker returns to South Carolina to make a new life for himself and his beloved Easter.

Prebinding:

9780613445221 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 1999, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: After fighting as a Union officer in the Civil War, former slave Obi Booker returns to South Carolina to make a new life for himself and his beloved Easter.

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Product Description: Amir has finally landed in a good place. His new foster parents, the Smiths, are loving and kind, and he has been reunited with his youngest brother, whom the Smiths have raised since babyhood. Amir knows he should be happy, but he is uncomfortable around the Smiths, and his little brother doesn’t even remember him...read more

Hardcover:

9780395849835 | Clarion Books, October 15, 2001, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Fourteen-year-old Amir, in Syracuse, exchanges letters with his friend Doris, back in their old Bronx neighborhood, in which they share their lives and give each other advice on friendship, family, foster care, and making decisions.

Paperback:

9780618609918 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, October 17, 2005), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Fourteen-year-old orphan Amir, living in Syracuse, exchanges letters with his friend Doris, still living in their old Bronx neighborhood, in which they share their lives and give each other advice.

Miscellaneous:

9780547562728 | Houghton Mifflin, October 15, 2001, cover price $6.95

Prebinding:

9781435288003 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 22, 2008), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Amir has finally landed in a good place.

An account of African-American life in the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War, based on first-person narratives, contemporary documents, and other historical sources.

Paperback:

9780531164631 | Franklin Watts, September 1, 2000, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: An account of African-American life in the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War, based on first-person narratives, contemporary documents, and other historical sources.

Library:

9780531115398 | Franklin Watts, March 1, 2000, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: An account of African-American life in the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War, based on first-person narratives, contemporary documents, and other historical sources.

Reinforced:

9780606197793, titled "Bury Me Not in a Land of Slaves: African Americans in the Time of Reconstruction" | Demco Media, October 1, 2000, cover price $18.85 | About this edition: An account of African-American life in the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War, based on first-person narratives, contemporary documents, and other historical sources.

Prebinding:

9780613727327 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: An account of African-American life in the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War, based on first-person narratives, contemporary documents, and other historical sources.

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When Kofi's father, an Ashanti chief, is killed, Kofi is sold as a slave and ends up in Massachusetts, where his fate is in the hands of Paul Cuffe, an African American shipbuilder who works to return slaves to their homeland in Africa.

Paperback:

9780590416245, titled "The Captive" | Apple, June 1, 1995, cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Kofi is stolen from his family in Africa and sold into slavery in Puritan New England

School and Library:

9780590416252, titled "The Captive" | Scholastic, January 1, 1994, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Kofi is stolen from his family in Africa and sold into slavery in Puritan New England

Reinforced:

9780606162029, titled "The Captive" | Demco Media, April 1, 1999, cover price $12.14 | About this edition: Kofi is stolen from his family in Africa and sold into slavery in Puritan New England
9780606073394, titled "The Captive" | Demco Media, June 1, 1995, cover price $9.50 | About this edition: Kofi is stolen from his family in Africa and sold into slavery in Puritan New England

Prebinding:

9780785764090 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $12.40 | About this edition: Kofi is stolen from his family in Africa and sold into slavery in Puritan New England

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Chronicles the 1991 discovery of New York's first burial ground for slaves and free African-Americans, examining the mysteries surrounding the area and questioning why there had been virtually no public knowledge of the well-documented area.

Hardcover:

9780805050127 | Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, April 15, 1998, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Describes the discovery and study of the African burial site found in Manhattan in 1991, while excavating for a new building, and what it reveals about the lives of black people in Colonial times.

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In the wake of emancipation, Easter wonders how she, a teenaged runaway slave, will live, and what opportunities might await her and her people

Hardcover:

9780802768162 | Walker & Co, July 1, 1988, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A fourteen-year-old black girl tries to find a fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union army during the Civil War, during the confusing times after the emancipation of the slaves.

Paperback:

9780380714094 | Reprint edition (Camelot, October 1, 1994), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: A fourteen-year-old black girl tries to find a fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union army during the Civil War, during the confusing times after the emancipation of the slaves.

Library:

9780802768179 | Walker & Co, October 1, 1988, cover price $14.85 | About this edition: A fourteen-year-old black girl tries to find a fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union army during the Civil War, during the confusing times after the emancipation of the slaves.

Reinforced:

9780606006828 | Demco Media, October 1, 1994, cover price $14.55 | About this edition: A fourteen-year-old black girl tries to find a fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union army during the Civil War, during the confusing times after the emancipation of the slaves.

Prebinding:

9780785787518 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.45 | About this edition: A fourteen-year-old black girl tries to find a fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union army during the Civil War, during the confusing times after the emancipation of the slaves.

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Product Description: Marcus walked into Langston High School that morning determined to turn his life around. He'd stay in school all day, go to his classes and he had no pot to sell. Finally, he understood the warnings from his grandmother, his mother and his girlfrie

Hardcover:

9780899191140 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1982, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: As he seeks a place to hide, Marcus, a boy from the Islands now living in the Bronx, tries to figure out how he became involved in the stabbing of a fellow student.

Paperback:

9781413491449 | Xlibris Corp, December 30, 2005, cover price $20.99 | About this edition: Marcus walked into Langston High School that morning determined to turn his life around.
9780395696255 | Reprint edition (Clarion Books, April 1, 1994), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: As he seeks a place to hide, Marcus, a boy from the Islands now living in the Bronx, tries to figure out how he became involved in the stabbing of a fellow student.

Reinforced:

9780606064668 | Demco Media, April 1, 1994, cover price $11.05 | About this edition: As he seeks a place to hide, Marcus, a boy from the Islands now living in the Bronx, tries to figure out how he became involved in the stabbing of a fellow student.

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Documents the recruitment, training, and struggles of African American soldiers during the Civil War and examines the campaigns in which they participated

Paperback:

9780531156766 | Reprint edition (Franklin Watts, August 1, 1993), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Documents the recruitment, training, and struggles of African American soldiers during the Civil War and examines the campaigns in which they participated

Library:

9780531111512 | Franklin Watts, February 1, 1993, cover price $23.60 | About this edition: Documents the recruitment, training, and struggles of African American soldiers during the Civil War and examines the campaigns in which they participated

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When Doris' best friend moves away, she is lonely and agrees to help a boy nicknamed Yellow Bird to overcome a reading problem

Paperback:

9780618611164 | Houghton Mifflin, October 17, 2005, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Doris becomes friends with Yellow Bird as she helps him with his studies and his part in the school play and discovers that he has a problem known as dyslexia.
9780395553886 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, April 22, 1991), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Doris becomes friends with Yellow Bird as she helps him with his studies and his part in the school play and discovers that he has a problem known as dyslexia.

Reinforced:

9780606050500 | Demco Media, April 1, 1991, cover price $15.60 | About this edition: Doris becomes friends with Yellow Bird as she helps him with his studies and his part in the school play and discovers that he has a problem known as dyslexia.

Prebinding:

9781417746392 | Turtleback Books, October 17, 2005, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: Doris becomes friends with Yellow Bird as she helps him with his studies and his part in the school play and discovers that he has a problem known as dyslexia.
9780833575661 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $15.65 | About this edition: Doris becomes friends with Yellow Bird as she helps him with his studies and his part in the school play and discovers that he has a problem known as dyslexia.

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