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Product Description: In 1849, Virginia began a bold railroad expansion toward the Ohio River and its lucrative trade connections. The projects plan covered 423 miles and called for piercing two mountain chains with three railroads. The Blue Ridge Railroad was the shortest of these but crossed the most mountainous terrain...read more

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9781467118934 | History Pr, October 19, 2015, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: In 1849, Virginia began a bold railroad expansion toward the Ohio River and its lucrative trade connections.

Roy Tyle, the best mechanic in the state of Florida, can clean spark plugs just by looking at them, and he takes a two dollar bet that he can make an accident-proof car.
By Terry Widener (illustrator)

Paperback:

9781481444880 | Reissue edition (Atheneum, November 28, 2014), cover price $17.99

School and Library:

9780689846403 | Atheneum, January 6, 2005, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Roy Tyle, the best mechanic in the state of Florida, can clean spark plugs just by looking at them, and he takes a two dollar bet that he can make an accident-proof car.

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Product Description: In one of the greatest engineering feats of his time, Claudius Crozet led the completion of Virginia's Blue Ridge Tunnel in 1858. Two centuries later, the National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark still proudly stands, but the stories and lives of those who built it are the true lasting triumph...read more

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9781626194212 | History Pr, February 25, 2014, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: In one of the greatest engineering feats of his time, Claudius Crozet led the completion of Virginia's Blue Ridge Tunnel in 1858.

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Product Description: The great Irish potato famine -- the Great Hunger -- was one of the worst disasters of the nineteenth century. Within seven years of the onset of a fungus that wiped out Ireland's staple potato crop, more than a quarter of the country's eight million people had either starved to death, died of disease, or emigrated to other lands...read more

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9781442482920 | Atheneum, September 6, 2012, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: The great Irish potato famine -- the Great Hunger -- was one of the worst disasters of the nineteenth century.

School and Library:

9780689842269 | 1 edition (Atheneum, February 1, 2002), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Discusses the Irish potato famine of the nineteenth century using first-person accounts, including the causes and the suffering of the people.

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A collection of fictional letters retells the life of Harriet Ann Jacobs, a young slave who escaped to the North in the 1840s and became a published author. An ALA Notable Children's Book & ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint.

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9781416936374 | Simon Pulse, January 1, 2007, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A collection of fictional letters retells the life of Harriet Ann Jacobs, a young slave who escaped in the 1840s and became a published author.
9780689800153 | Simon Pulse, January 1, 1996, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: A collection of fictional letters retells the life of Harriet Ann Jacobs, a young slave who escaped in the 1840s and became a published author

School and Library:

9780684194462 | Atheneum, October 1, 1992, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of fictional letters recreates the life and times of Harriet Ann Jacobs, a young slave who escaped to freedom in the 1840s and who became a published author and abolitionist

Reinforced:

9780606095518 | Demco Media, January 1, 1996, cover price $14.53 | About this edition: A collection of fictional letters retells the life of Harriet Ann Jacobs, a young slave who escaped in the 1840s and became a published author

Prebinding:

9781435204409 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 28, 2007), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A collection of fictional letters retells the life of Harriet Ann Jacobs, a young slave who escaped in the 1840s and became a published author.
9781417793662 | Turtleback Books, January 9, 2007, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
9780785776628 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $13.40 | About this edition: A collection of fictional letters retells the life of Harriet Ann Jacobs, a young slave who escaped in the 1840s and became a published author

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Product Description: Like his mother and grandmother before him, Joseph Jacobs was born into slavery. Joseph lives with his grandmother and sister in North Carolina, but he has not seen his mother for more than seven years. Unbeknownst to Joseph, his mother, Harriet, has been hiding from her owner in the attic of the house that Joseph lives in...read more

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9780689878671 | Atheneum, January 9, 2007, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A fictionalized look at the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, in New York, New England, and finally in California duringthe Gold Rush.

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9780689878688 | Reprint edition (Simon Pulse, January 6, 2009), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Like his mother and grandmother before him, Joseph Jacobs was born into slavery.

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9781435204393 | Paw Prints, May 15, 2007, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A fictionalized look at the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, in New York, New England, and finally in California duringthe Gold Rush.

Hardcover:

9780195222470 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 2006, cover price $32.95
9780195174656 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 22, 2005, cover price $36.95

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When a Destruction Curse is set, the Trooping Ones set forth to end the inevitable doom, yet Sticky has another plan and soon is weaving a dream of revenge to put an end to all bad things that can hurt her village. (view table of contents)

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9780618092833 | Houghton Mifflin, August 27, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The faeries of Knockabeg become involved in the Irish potato famine as they wage war on each other.

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Based on a true story, two women, an abolitionist and a daughter of a freed slave, work together on an undercover project for the Union cause during the Civil War.

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9780689823794 | Atheneum, October 1, 2000, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, 'Miss Bet,' who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery.

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Product Description: It's a stormy night in 1827 when Moses Williams, Charles Wilson Peale's former slave, relates his startling account of life within the walls of Peale's famous Philadelphia museum. His voice resounding through the empty halls and corridors, Moses leads us through his adolescent friendship and rivalry with Raphael, Peale's son; his frustrations at Peale's unfulfilled promises of freedom; and his nagging suspicion that Peale may have had a hand in his own son's death...read more

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9781416968429 | Aladdin Paperbacks, November 28, 2007, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: It's a stormy night in 1827 when Moses Williams, Charles Wilson Peale's former slave, relates his startling account of life within the walls of Peale's famous Philadelphia museum.
9780689826788 | Simon Pulse, August 1, 1999, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: A former slave named Moses reminisces about his famous owner, Charles Willson Peale, and the intrigue surrounding Peale's son's suspicious death
9780689826788 | Simon Pulse, August 1, 1999, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: A former slave named Moses reminisces about his famous owner, Charles Willson Peale, and the intrigue surrounding Peale's son's suspicious death

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9780606163347, titled "Poison Place" | Demco Media, April 1, 1999, cover price $12.30 | About this edition: A former slave named Moses reminisces about his famous owner, Charles Willson Peale, and the intrigue surrounding Peale's son's suspicious death

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Details the genius of Tebe Hunter, a plantation worker who became the first self-taught African-American woman artist to receive national media attention by portraying the rich community life shared by southern laborers.

School and Library:

9780395720318 | Houghton Mifflin, September 28, 1998, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Details the genius of Tebe Hunter, a plantation worker who became the first self-taught African American woman artist to receive national media attention by portraying the rich community life shared by southern laborers

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An illustrated biography of the African American quilter who made quilts of her favorite Bible stories and folktales

Paperback:

9780689817076 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, December 1, 1997), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: An illustrated biography of the African American quilter who made quilts of her favorite Bible stories and folktales

School and Library:

9780684195766 | Atheneum, September 1, 1993, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: An illustrated biography of the African American quilter who made quilts of her favorite Bible stories and folk tales

Reinforced:

9780606130417 | Reprint edition (Demco Media, December 1, 1997), cover price $16.49 | About this edition: An illustrated biography of the African American quilter who made quilts of her favorite Bible stories and folktales

Prebinding:

9780613940191 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 1997, cover price $18.45 | About this edition: An illustrated biography of the African American quilter who made quilts of her favorite Bible stories and folktales

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On a dark night in 1827, Moses Williams, Charles Willson Peale's former slave, reveals to his daughter a startling account of betrayal, jealousy, and suspicion to be found within the walls of the famous Peale museum, in a compelling historical novel.
By Alex Leon (illustrator) and Mary E. Lyons

School and Library:

9780689811463 | Atheneum, October 1, 1997, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A former slave named Moses reminisces about his famous owner, Charles Willson Peale, and the intrigue surrounding Peale's son's suspicious death

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Illustrated with full-color photographs, a profile of a remarkable African-American blacksmith incorporates his own words to trace his life as a nationally renowned artist and exhibit the skills he has honed over the course of eighty years.
By Mannie Garcia (illustrator) and Mary E. Lyons

School and Library:

9780395720332 | Houghton Mifflin, August 25, 1997, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Tells the story of this African American artist, the great-grandson of slaves, who has achieved fame and admiration for his ornamental wrought-iron creations.

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An introduction to the life of Minnie Evans explains how she began, at age forty-three, to draw the strange figures that had haunted her dreams all her life and describes the restrictions that were placed upon her ambitions as an African-American artist.

Hardcover:

9780395720325 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A biography of the North Carolina painter whose art had its origins in her religious visions and the African traditions of her slave ancestors.

Fifteen black and African-American tales of the supernatural from various states and several Caribbean countries. Includes commentary on black folklore in the New World.

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9780689803062 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, September 1, 1995), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Fifteen Black and African-American tales of the supernatural from various states and several Caribbean countries, with information on Black folklore in the New World

School and Library:

9780684193335 | Atheneum, October 1, 1991, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Fifteen Black and African-American tales of the supernatural from various states and several Caribbean countries

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9780606080576 | Demco Media, September 1, 1995, cover price $10.36 | About this edition: Fifteen Black and African-American tales of the supernatural from various states and several Caribbean countries, with information on Black folklore in the New World

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A study based on the teenage diaries of seven women writers--Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Ida Wells-Barnett, Sarah Jane Foster, Charlotte Forten, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman--reveals their inner struggles and ambitions. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780805030655 | Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A study based on the teenage diaries of seven women writers reveals their inner struggles and ambitions

The award-winning author retells six South Carolina tales about Bruh Rabbit and his adventures outwitting, and sometimes being outwitted by, Bruh Bear and Bruh Wolf.
By Mary E. Lyons and Mireille Vautier (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780805026733 | Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1995, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A retelling of six South Carolina tales about Bruh Rabbit and his adventures outwitting, and sometimes being outwitted by Bruh Bear and Bruh Wolf

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A portrait of self-taught African-American artist Bill Traylor, an artist whose career began after his eightieth birthday, explores the work of this former slave whose life spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and both world wars.

School and Library:

9780684194585 | Atheneum, January 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A portrait of self-taught African American artist Bill Traylor, an artist whose career began after his eightieth birthday, explores the work of this former slave whose life spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and both world wars

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Examines the life and work of master cabinetmaker Tom Day, a free, literate African-American craftsman whose distinctive furniture was much prized in antebellum North Carolina.

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9780684196756 | Atheneum, January 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Examines the life and work of master cabinetmaker Tom Day, a free, literate African American craftsman whose distinctive furniture was much prized in antebellum North Carolina

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A portrait of the life and work of this African-American painter examines the self-taught folk artist's life, from his childhood, to his struggle to teach himself to paint, to his current acclaim as one of America's foremost artists.

School and Library:

9780684195346 | Atheneum, September 1, 1993, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Discusses the life and work of the African-American folk artist Horace Pippin

Describes the life and work of the prolific Black author who wrote stories, plays, essays, and articles, recorded Black folklore, and was involved in the Harlem Renaissance

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9780020444459 | Reprint edition (Atheneum, April 1, 1993), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Describes the life and work of the prolific Black author who wrote stories, plays, essays, and articles, recorded Black folklore, and was involved in the Harlem Renaissance

School and Library:

9780684191980 | Atheneum, November 1, 1990, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Describes the life and work of the prolific black author who wrote stories, plays, essays, and articles, recorded black folklore, and was involved in the Harlem Renaissance

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9780606056151 | Demco Media, April 1, 1993, cover price $16.80 | About this edition: Describes the life and work of the prolific Black author who wrote stories, plays, essays, and articles, recorded Black folklore, and was involved in the Harlem Renaissance

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