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Ellen's Broom

Product Description: A young girl learns a new meaning for freedom during the time of Reconstruction Ellen always knew the broom resting above the hearth was special. Before it was legal for her mother and father to officially be married, the broom was what made them a family anyway...read more

By Daniel Minter (illustrator)

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9780399250033 | Putnam Pub Group, January 5, 2012, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A young girl learns a new meaning for freedom during the time of Reconstruction Ellen always knew the broom resting above the hearth was special.

Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story

When they are given the task of turning thread into gold, the seven Ashanti brothers put aside their differences, learn to get along, and embody the principles of Kwanzaa, in a story with information on Kwanzaa and African weaving. Reprint.

By Daniel Minter (illustrator)

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9780807573167 | Reprint edition (Albert Whitman & Co, September 30, 2004), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: When they are given the task of turning thread into gold, the seven Ashanti brothers put aside their differences, learn to get along, and embody the principles of Kwanzaa, in a story with information on Kwanzaa and African weaving.

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9780807573150 | Albert Whitman & Co, September 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When they are given the seemingly impossible task of turning thread into gold, the seven Ashanti brothers put aside their differences, learn to get along, and embody the principles of Kwanzaa.

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9781439511145 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 1, 2008), cover price $15.95

The First Marathon: The Legend of Pheidippides

Relates the story of how Pheidippides, part of a small band of Greek soldiers, ran from Marathon to Sparta to ask the Spartans for help in defeating the Persian army, returned to Marathon, and then ran from Marathon to Athens to deliver the news of the Greek victory.

By Daniel Minter (illustrator) and Susan Reynolds

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9780807508671 | Albert Whitman & Co, March 30, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Relates the story of the young Greek runner who ran 280 miles from Athens to Sparta and back to warn the Greeks of the approach of the Persians before the Battle of Marathon, a feat remembered in the first marathon run in the 1896 Olympics.

New Year Be Coming: A Gullah Year

Inspired by the Gullah people who were brought as slaves from Africa to the American South, this book celebrates the diversity of the changing seasons through a collection of poetry with full-color illustrations.

By Katharine Boling and Daniel Minter (illustrator)

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9780807555903 | Albert Whitman & Co, September 1, 2002, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Verses written in the Gullah dialect of the southeastern seacoast describe the months of the year and activities that characterize each.

Bubber Goes to Heaven

Ten-year-old Bubber dreams that two angels come down and take him up to Heaven, where he has trouble learning to fly with his new wings and has wonderful adventures

By Arna Wendell Bontemps and Daniel Minter (illustrator)

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9780195123654 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Knocked unconscious by a fall from a tree, ten-year-old Bubber dreams that two angels come down and take him up to Heaven, where he has trouble learning to fly with his new wings and has wonderful adventures.

The Riches of Oseola McCarty

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)

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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.

The Foot Warmer and the Crow

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)

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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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