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Revolutionary Notes.

A collection of essays introduce various facets of the struggle for radical change in American society, ranging from Women's Liberation to the Yippies

By Julius Lester

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Paperback:

9780394171647 | Grove Pr, October 1, 1969, cover price $1.25 | About this edition: A collection of essays introduce various facets of the struggle for radical change in American society, ranging from Women's Liberation to the Yippies

The Knee-High Man and Other Tales

Retells six tales from American black folk literature: 'Why the Waves Have Whitecaps,' 'Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear,' 'Why Dogs Hate Cats,' 'The Farmer and the Snake,' 'What is Trouble?' and 'The Knee-High Man.'

By Julius Lester

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Hardcover:

9780803745933, titled "The Knee-High Man, and Other Tales" | Dial Books for Young Readers, June 1, 1972, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Drawing from Black folklore, the author recreates six stories about the wind and the water, Mr.

Paperback:

9780140548105 | Reprint edition (Dutton Childrens Books, September 1, 1985), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Drawing from Black folklore, the author recreates six stories about the wind and the water, Mr.

Young and Black in America

By Rae Alexander-Minter (compiler) and Julius Lester (editor)

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Paperback:

9780394708041 | Random House Childrens Books, June 1, 1972, cover price $1.95

2 Love Stories

Novellas about an interracial relationship and a sixteen-year-old girl's sexual awakening record the author's concern about the complexities of love

By Julius Lester

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Hardcover:

9780803791459 | Dial Books for Young Readers, October 1, 1972, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Novellas about an interracial relationship and a sixteen-year-old girl's sexual awakening record the author's concern about the complexities of love

Who I Am

A pictorial and poetic celebration of everyday life and the human experience

By Julius Lester

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Hardcover:

9780803787582 | E P Dutton, November 1, 1974, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A pictorial and poetic celebration of everyday life and the human experience

How the Snake Got Its Rattle

By Julius Lester

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780804507080 | Spoken Arts, June 1, 1980, cover price $10.95

This Strange New Feeling

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By Julius Lester

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Hardcover:

9780803784918 | Dial Books for Young Readers, April 1, 1982, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: One of the most complex periods in American history is illuminated by the love stories of three couples and their fights for freedom from slavery

Paperback:

9780590440479 | Reissue edition (Scholastic Paperbacks, June 1, 1997), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: One of the most complex periods in American history is illuminated by the love stories of three couples and their fights for freedom from slavery

9780590329248 | Scholastic Paperbacks, June 1, 1985, cover price N/A
| About this edition: One of the most complex periods in American history is illuminated by the love stories of three couples and their fights for freedom from slavery

Prebinding:

9780613071215 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $12.40 | About this edition: No Description Available

9780808571957 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $12.40

Do Lord Remember Me

Facing his imminent death, Reverend Joshua Smith reexamines his faith and the accomplishments of his life, in a new edition of the classic novel about one African-American family's struggle for survival from slavery to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

By Julius Lester

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Hardcover:

9780030715341 | Holt Rinehart & Winston, January 1, 1985, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Reverend Joshua Smith facing his imminent death reexamines his faith and the accomplishments of his life

Paperback:

9780312285562 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, October 30, 2004), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Facing his imminent death, Reverend Joshua Smith reexamines his faith and the accomplishments of his life, in a new edition of the classic novel about one African-American family's struggle for survival from slavery to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

9781559703222 | Arcade Pub, July 1, 1998, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: In a gray fieldstone house in Nashville, Tennessee, the Reverend Joshua Smith Sr.

9780671648480 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, May 1, 1986), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: In a gray fieldstone house in Nashville, Tennessee, the Reverend Joshua Smith Sr.

The More Tales of Uncle Remus: Further Adventures of Brer Rabbit, His Friends, Enemies, and Others

The author retells classic Afro-American tales

By Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780803704190 | Dial Books for Young Readers, March 1, 1988, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: A retelling of the continuing adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.

Library:

9780803704206 | Dutton Childrens Books, March 1, 1988, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: A retelling of the continuing adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.

Basketball Game

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is a story of friendship and young love in the face of prejudice and hostility. A young teenager moves with his parents to a town in the American South, where 'a nigger may be lynched' for speaking to a white girl.

By Julius Lester

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Hardcover:

9780435123413 | New edition (Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, April 15, 1989), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is a story of friendship and young love in the face of prejudice and hostility.

Further Tales of Uncle Remus: The Misadventures of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, the Doodang, and Other Creatures As Told by Julius Lester

A retelling of the classic Afro-American tales relating the adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.

By Julius Lester

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Hardcover:

9780803706101 | Dial Books for Young Readers, May 1, 1990, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: A retelling of the classic Afro-American tales relating the adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.

Library:

9780803706118 | Dial Books for Young Readers, May 1, 1990, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: A retelling of the classic Afro-American tales relating the adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.

Falling Pieces of the Broken Sky

The author recounts his political and spiritual odyssey during the past ten years, discussing anti-Semitism, James Baldwin's work and legacy, video games, pollution in space, suicide, the Holocaust, and more

By Julius Lester

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Hardcover:

9781559700597 | 1 edition (Arcade Pub, October 1, 1990), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The author recounts his political and spiritual odyssey during the past ten years, discussing anti-Semitism, James Baldwin's work and legacy, video games, pollution in space, suicide, the Holocaust, and more

The Last Tales of Uncle Remus

In the fourth collection of Uncle Remus tales, the irrepressible Brer Rabbit gets a job and figures out how to get paid twice a day. By the award-winning author of To be a Slave.

By Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780803713031 | Dial Books for Young Readers, January 1, 1994, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Retells the final adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies

Library:

9780803713048 | Dial Books for Young Readers, January 1, 1994, cover price $18.89 | About this edition: Retells the final adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies

How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have: And Other Tales

An illustrated collection of twelve folk tales, ten African and two Jewish

By Julius Lester

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Paperback:

9780590419727, titled "How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have?: And Other Tales" | Scholastic, April 1, 1994, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: An illustrated collection of twelve folk tales, ten African and two Jewish

School and Library:

9780590419734 | Reissue edition (Scholastic, September 1, 1989), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An illustrated collection of twelve folk tales, ten African and two Jewish.

Reinforced:

9780606064781, titled "How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have?: And Other Tales" | Demco Media, April 1, 1994, cover price $12.20 | About this edition: An illustrated collection of twelve folk tales, ten African and two Jewish

The Man Who Knew Too Much: A Moral Tale from the Baila of Zambia

A man who presumes to know everything there is to know about eagles wrongly interprets a miraculous experience and evokes the curse of murder on the world, in a traditional fable from the Baila people of Zambia.

By Leonard Jenkins (illustrator) and Julius Lester

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Hardcover:

9780395605219 | Clarion Books, October 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A husband does not believe it when his wife tells him that their crying baby is comforted by a huge eagle who flies down with its sharp talons and alights on the baby

Long Journey Home

Six short stories drawn from history record black Americans' struggle for freedom during the days of slavery, chronicling the lives of a blues singer, a cowboy, two lovers forced apart when the girl is sold, and a traveler on the Underground Railroad.

By Julius Lester

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Paperback:

9780590414333 | Reissue edition (Point, December 1, 1994), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Six short stories drawn from history record black Americans' struggle for freedom during the days of slavery, chronicling the lives of a blues singer, a cowboy, two lovers forced apart when the girl is sold, and a traveler on the Underground Railroad.

To Be a Slave

A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves tells about their experiences, from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century. A Newbery Honor Book. Reissue.

By Julius Lester

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Hardcover:

9780803723474 | 30 annual edition (Dial Books for Young Readers, October 1, 1998), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A compilation of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century

9780803789555 | Dial Books for Young Readers, November 1, 1968, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.

Paperback:

9780142403860 | Reissue edition (Puffin, December 29, 2005), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A chronological compilation of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.

9780141310015 | Puffin, December 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A compilation of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.

9780590424608 | Reissue edition (Scholastic Paperbacks, September 1, 1988), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Early slave narratives and interviews during the 1930's with ex-slaves provide the source material for this examination of American slavery from the viewpoint of its victims

9780590329231 | Scholastic Paperbacks, June 1, 1985, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: Early slave narratives and interviews during the 1930's with ex-slaves provide the source material for this examination of American slavery from the viewpoint of its victims

Reinforced:

9780606203777 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $15.65 | also contains To Be a Slave | About this edition: A compilation of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.

9780606009898 | Demco Media, October 1, 1995, cover price $11.76 | also contains To Be a Slave | About this edition: Early slave narratives and interviews during the 1930's with ex-slaves provide the source material for this examination of American slavery from the viewpoint of its victims

Prebinding:

9780613337328 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: A compilation of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.

9780808565628 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $11.80

9780613902083 | Turtleback Books, February 1, 1986, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Early slave narratives and interviews during the 1930's with ex-slaves provide the source material for this examination of American slavery from the viewpoint of its victims

A Folksinger's Guide to the 12-String Guitar As Played by Leadbelly

Product Description: From Introduction: "Huddie Ledbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly, died in December, 1949 at the age of 64. He had come out of the deep South, settled down in a little apartment on New York's lower East Side, determined to build a successful career as a musician...read more

By Julius Lester and Pete Seeger

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Hardcover:

9780825600234 | Music Sales Corp, June 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: From Introduction: "Huddie Ledbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly, died in December, 1949 at the age of 64.

From Slave Ship to Freedom Road

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Traces the African American slave experience through paintings beginning with the Middle Passage and concluding with images of post-Civil War emancipation.

By Rod Brown (illustrator) and Julius Lester

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Hardcover:

9780803718937 | 1 edition (Dial Books for Young Readers, January 1, 1998), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A series of paintings portray the story of slavery from its beginning are accompanied by literary interpretations

Paperback:

9780140566697 | Puffin, December 1, 1999, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Paintings portray the story of slavery from its beginnings, and are accompanied by literary interpretations

9780030584336, titled "Study Guide to Accompany Introduction to Chemical Principles" | 3 edition (W B Saunders Co, June 1, 1982), cover price $18.95 | also contains Study Guide to Accompany Introduction to Chemical Principles

Prebinding:

9781439512302 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

9780613229906 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: Paintings portray the story of slavery from its beginnings, and are accompanied by literary interpretations

Othello: A Novel

A prose retelling of Shakespeare's play in which a jealous general is duped into thinking that his wife has been unfaithful, with tragic consequences

By Julius Lester

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Paperback:

9780590419666 | Scholastic Paperbacks, February 1, 1998, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: A prose retelling of Shakespeare's play in which a jealous general is duped into thinking that his wife has been unfaithful, with tragic consequences

School and Library:

9780590419673 | Scholastic, April 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A prose retelling of Shakespeare's play in which a jealous general is duped into thinking that his wife has been unfaithful, with tragic consequences

Reinforced:

9780606130097 | Demco Media, February 1, 1998, cover price $12.97 | About this edition: A prose retelling of Shakespeare's play in which a jealous general is duped into thinking that his wife has been unfaithful, with tragic consequences

Black Cowboy, Wild Horses: A True Story

Presents the story of Bob Lemmons, a cowboy who is famous for his ability to track and corral wild horses by running with wild herds until they accept him and then challenging the head stallion for leadership.

By Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney (illustrator)

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School and Library:

9780803717879 | Dial Books for Young Readers, May 1, 1998, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A Black cowboy is so in tune with wild mustangs that they accept him into the herd, thus enabling him singlehandedly to take them to the corral

Library:

9780803717886 | Dial Books for Young Readers, May 1, 1998, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: A Black cowboy is so in tune with wild mustangs that they accept him into the herd, thus enabling him singlehandedly to take them to the corral

What a Truly Cool World

Discovering that making a world takes a lot of work, God calls on his secretary Bruce and the angel Shaniqua to help him create bushes, grass, flowers, and butterflies. By the award-winning author of How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have!

By Joe Cepeda (illustrator) and Julius Lester

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School and Library:

9780590864688 | Scholastic, February 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Discovering that making a world takes a lot of work, God calls on his secretary Bruce and the angel Shaniqua to help him create bushes, grass, flowers, and butterflies

The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

A retelling of the African-American tales about the adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies describes the origins of Uncle Remus, the tricks of Brer Fox, and their encounters with Mr. Man. Reissue.

By Julius Lester

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Hardcover:

9780803702714 | Dial Books for Young Readers, March 1, 1987, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A retelling of the Afro-American tales about the adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.

Paperback:

9780142407202 | Reissue edition (Puffin, December 28, 2006), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A retelling of the African American tales about the adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.

9780141303475 | Reprint edition (Puffin, January 1, 1999), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: A retelling of the Afro-American tales about the adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780788753626 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, January 1, 1987), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Library:

9780803702721 | Dutton Childrens Books, March 1, 1987, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: A retelling of the Afro-American tales about the adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.

Reinforced:

9780606168069, titled "Tales of Uncle Remus the Adventures of Brer Rabbit" | Demco Media, April 1, 1999, cover price $13.20 | About this edition: A retelling of the Afro-American tales about the adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.

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9780613178709 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $19.65 | About this edition: A retelling of the Afro-American tales about the adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.

When the Beginning Began: Stories About God, the Creatures, and Us

An inspired and witty collection of traditional and original Jewish tales from an award-winning author interprets the biblical story of the creation of the world and includes a sly snake who walks upright and an angel named Moe. 15,000 first printing.

By Julius Lester

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School and Library:

9780152012380 | Silver Whistle, April 1, 1999, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A collection of traditional and original Jewish tales interpreting the Biblical story of the creation of the world

Othello

A prose retelling of Shakespeare's play in which a jealous general is duped into thinking that his wife has been unfaithful, with tragic consequences (view table of contents)

By Julius Lester

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Prebinding:

9780613084970 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A prose retelling of Shakespeare's play in which a jealous general is duped into thinking that his wife has been unfaithful, with tragic consequences

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