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Hardcover:
9780525673507, titled "Love, David" | Lodestar Books, August 1, 1991, cover price $14.95 | also contains Love, David | About this edition: Anna watches as her older brother upsets the family by involving himself in illegal activities to escape from the poverty of his home life in South Africa.
9780525673392, titled "Magical Fellowship" | Lodestar Books, March 1, 1991, cover price $14.95 | also contains Magical Fellowship | About this edition: A group of brave humans embarks on a quest to save Earth from the creatures beyond the sky, in a fantasy set in a time of dragons, trolls, and wizards
Paperback:
9781511550666 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 2, 2015, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Ludwig Ganghofer: Das Märchen vom Karfunkelstein.
9781511550680 | Large print edition (Createspace Independent Pub, April 2, 2015), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Ludwig Ganghofer: Das Märchen vom Karfunkelstein.
Hardcover:
9780395510612 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1989, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish owned Caribbean island of St.
Paperback:
9780547406305 | Houghton Mifflin, January 3, 2011, cover price $6.99
9780440403791 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, January 1, 1994), cover price $6.50 | About this edition: Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish-owned Caribbean island of St.
Miscellaneous:
9780547349770 | Houghton Mifflin, January 3, 2011, cover price $6.99
Reinforced:
9780606044851 | Demco Media, January 1, 1994, cover price $13.45 | About this edition: Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish-owned Caribbean island of St.
Prebinding:
9781439521434 | Reissue edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $15.50 | About this edition: The planter who buys you will put you to work in his household or in the sugar-cane fields.
9780833543349 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.60 | About this edition: Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish-owned Caribbean island of St.
Paperback:
9781442402249 | Atheneum, June 8, 2009, cover price $10.99
School and Library:
9780689816734 | Atheneum, October 1, 2000, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Describes the plum-purple sky, yew-green hills, silver strands of moonlight, and other colorful things which provide the setting for the birth of a black baby Jesus.
Written in the style of "magic realism," this tragic-comic contemporary novel is set against the backdrops of shabby but vibrant city slums and a rural South African community. The story's hero, Toloki, is an eccentric yet dignified professional mourner whose different worlds are reconciled, amid an atmosphere charged with bizarre realism, when he finds love and makes peace with his past.
Paperback:
9780195711066 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Written in the style of "magic realism," this tragic-comic contemporary novel is set against the backdrops of shabby but vibrant city slums and a rural South African community.
Miscellaneous:
9780374708283 | 1 edition (Picador USA, May 15, 2007), cover price $9.99
Hardcover:
9780688035686 | William Morrow & Co, January 1, 1980, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: His sense of justice outraged by the death of a Black friend, white South African schoolteacher Ben Du Toit searches for the truth and challenges the assumptions on which his racist society is founded
Paperback:
9780061138638 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, September 30, 2006), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: His sense of justice outraged by the death of a black friend, white South African schoolteacher Ben Du Toit searches for the truth and challenges the assumptions on which his racist society is founded.
9780140068900 | Mti rep edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1989), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: His sense of justice outraged by the death of a Black friend, white South African schoolteacher Ben Du Toit searches for the truth and challenges the assumptions on which his racist society is founded
Hardcover:
9780786716203 | Carroll & Graf Pub, January 3, 2006, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The writer of the award-winning Execution Poems shares a fictional depiction of the lives and motivations of two ancestral cousins, who suffered underprivileged and violent childhoods and were condemned and hanged by the white community for their role in killing a taxi driver.
Paperback:
9780786718740, titled "George And Rue" | Carroll & Graf Pub, December 28, 2006, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: It was, by all accounts,, a “slug-ugly” crime.
Paperback:
9780888784438 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, November 1, 2003, cover price $15.95
Hardcover:
9780715630204 | Duckbacks, June 1, 2003, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: This novel, written in the nineteen sixties, is a perfectly preserved time capsule of that period.
Paperback:
9780889614109 | Womens Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Finding a way to cure her daughter Chelsea's allergic reaction to school proves difficult for Mrs.
Product Description: Anna, the interracial child of a white father and black mother, explores questions and yearnings she has about her identity by "switching" skin-colors with her father. With wit, compassion and a very light and non-didactic hand, this book examines issues of concern not only to interracial children, but to all children who have ever worried about their diferences...read more
Hardcover:
9780916291273 | Kane Miller Book Pub, April 1, 1990, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A brown-skinned daughter and her white father experiment to see what it would be like to have the other's skin color
Paperback:
9780916291471 | Kane Miller Book Pub, March 1, 1990, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: A brown-skinned daughter and her white father experiment to see what it would be like to have the other's skin color.
Reinforced:
9780606229791 | Demco Media, September 1, 2002, cover price $15.04 | About this edition: Anna, the interracial child of a white father and black mother, explores questions and yearnings she has about her identity by "switching" skin-colors with her father.
Christopher Mulamba is tired of being one of three boys with the same first name in his class, so he picks out a series of new names honoring a variety of black heroes, from the star of his aunt's Trinidadian folktales to scientist Elijah McCoy to Michael Jordan, but in the process his own name gets lost.Christopher Mulamba is tired of being one of three boys with the same first name in his class, so he picks out a series of new names honoring a variety of Black heroes, but in the process his own name gets lost
Hardcover:
9781552092163 | Firefly Books Ltd, March 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Christopher Mulamba is tired of being one of three boys with the same first name in his class, so he picks out a series of new names honoring a variety of black heroes, from the star of his aunt's Trinidadian folktales to scientist Elijah McCoy to Michael Jordan, but in the process his own name gets lost.
Paperback:
9781552092149 | Firefly Books Ltd, March 1, 1998, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Christopher Mulamba is tired of being one of three boys with the same first name in his class, so he picks out a series of new names honoring a variety of black heroes, from the star of his aunt's Trinidadian folktales to scientist Elijah McCoy to Michael Jordan, but in the process his own name gets lost.
Reinforced:
9780606251112 | Demco Media, September 1, 2002, cover price $14.21 | About this edition: Christopher Mulamba is tired of being one of three boys with the same first name in his class, so he picks out a series of new names honoring a variety of black heroes, from the star of his aunt's Trinidadian folktales to scientist Elijah McCoy to Michael Jordan, but in the process his own name gets lost.
Prebinding:
9780613195096 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $14.60 | About this edition: Christopher Mulamba is tired of being one of three boys with the same first name in his class, so he picks out a series of new names honoring a variety of black heroes, from the star of his aunt's Trinidadian folktales to scientist Elijah McCoy to Michael Jordan, but in the process his own name gets lost.
Paperback:
9780312420918 | 1 edition (Picador USA, August 1, 2002), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A professional mourner, Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village, at the funeral of a young boy, and joins forces with her to heal the pain of the past and build new lives for themselves in post-apartheid South Africa.
Paperback:
9781900715515 | Gardners Books, October 4, 2001, cover price $13.60
Hardcover:
9780385306089 | Delacorte Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: When a military coup occurs in the constantly war-torn African country of Nagala, teenage Paul is forced to flee into the open countryside to avoid enemy soldiers who seek his life
Paperback:
9781504014892 | Reprint edition (Open Road Media Teen & Tween, May 26, 2015), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A war behind him, a child soldier tries to learn the ways of peace Paul remembers nothing from before the conflict.
9780330482042 | New edition (Pan Macmillan, May 4, 2001), cover price $8.30 | About this edition: Paul Kagomi's most precious possession is his AK.
9780440218975 | Reprint edition (Laurel Leaf, January 1, 1994), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: When a military coup occurs in the constantly war-torn African country of Nagala, teenage Paul is forced to flee into the open countryside to avoid enemy soldiers who seek his life
Reinforced:
9780606057271 | Demco Media, January 1, 1994, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: When a military coup occurs in the constantly war-torn African country of Nagala, teenage Paul is forced to flee into the open countryside to avoid enemy soldiers who seek his life
Prebinding:
9780785725893 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: When a military coup occurs in the constantly war-torn African country of Nagala, teenage Paul is forced to flee into the open countryside to avoid enemy soldiers who seek his life
The community of Yoruba throws a birthday party for eight-year-old Javaka Shatu, complete with steel drums, horns, food, and lots of singing and dancing, making him wish every day could be so much fun
Hardcover:
9780805018493 | Reissue edition (Henry Holt & Co, November 1, 1991), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A child celebrates his eighth birthday with all the people of a fantasied African community.
Paperback:
9780805053418 | Reprint edition (Owlet, March 1, 1997), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The community of Yoruba throws a birthday party for eight-year-old Javaka Shatu, complete with steel drums, horns, food, and lots of singing and dancing, making him wish every day could be so much fun
Prebinding:
9780613046039 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.10 | About this edition: The community of Yoruba throws a birthday party for eight-year-old Javaka Shatu, complete with steel drums, horns, food, and lots of singing and dancing, making him wish every day could be so much fun
Prebinding:
9780613044400 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.30 | About this edition: At lunchtime Daddy and Jesse play their favorite game, a question and answer game about people who live in Africa and the ways in which they are connected to Jesse
Paperback:
9781564782250 | Dalkey Archive Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $11.95
Paperback:
9780889611344 | Womens Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Margaret, a Black fourteen-year-old and a great admirer of Harriet Tubman, is determined to help her best friend, Zulma, escape from Canada and return to Tobago
9780435989248, titled "Harriets Daughter" | Heinemann, December 5, 1988, cover price $16.19 | About this edition: A beautifully written and paced story, sure to capture the imagination of both teenagers and adult readers.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780889611542 | Womens Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $16.00
Paperback:
9780966362848 | Boca Bay Books, August 1, 1998, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Book by Perry, I.
Reinforced:
9780606128704 | Reprint edition (Demco Media, January 1, 1998), cover price $13.97 | also contains Africa: Brothers and Sisters | About this edition: At lunchtime Daddy and Jesse play their favorite game, a question and answer game about people who live in Africa and the ways in which they are connected to Jesse
Paperback:
9780689818165, titled "Africa Brothers and Sisters" | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, January 1, 1998), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: At lunchtime Daddy and Jesse play their favorite game, a question and answer game about people who live in Africa and the ways in which they are connected to Jesse
School and Library:
9780027511666 | Simon & Schuster, April 1, 1993, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: At lunchtime Daddy and Jesse play their favorite game, a question and answer game about people who live in Africa and the ways in which they are connected to Jesse
Reinforced:
9780606128704, titled "Africa Brothers and Sisters" | Reprint edition (Demco Media, January 1, 1998), cover price $13.97 | also contains Africa Brothers and Sisters | About this edition: At lunchtime Daddy and Jesse play their favorite game, a question and answer game about people who live in Africa and the ways in which they are connected to Jesse
Paperback:
9780099596608 | New edition (Gardners Books, August 3, 1995), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Julian and Nathan are outcasts at school, so when they stumble across a stash of money they try to buy themselves popularity.
9780064403009 | Reprint edition (Trophy Pr, February 1, 1991), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Having found an enormous sum of money and been threatened with punishment by their parents for not turning it in to the police, gawky eleven-year-old Julia and her bad-tempered friend Nathan flee London for Brighton and the open countryside.
Hardcover:
9781555531140 | Northeastern Univ Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Carl Slater, a Harlem reporter, discovers a secret Black organization
Paperback:
9781555531683 | Reprint edition (Northeastern Univ Pr, August 3, 1993), cover price $24.95
Library:
9780060221959 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins, June 1, 1992), cover price $14.89 | About this edition: After his grandfather leaves his family and returns to a dangerous situation on his home island in the Caribbean, fourteen-year-old Junius decides to follow him in search of his lost heritage.
Hardcover:
9780525673507 | Lodestar Books, August 1, 1991, cover price $14.95 | also contains Das Marchen Vom Karfunkelstein: Eine Wunderliche Geschichte Fur Kleine Und Grosse Kinder | About this edition: Anna watches as her older brother upsets the family by involving himself in illegal activities to escape from the poverty of his home life in South Africa.
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