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Paperback:
9780915117215 | Freedom Voices Pubns, February 1, 2013, cover price $24.95
Product Description: As she teaches her granddaughter to sew a traditional sweetgrass basket, a grandmother weaves a story, going back generations to her grandfather's village in faraway Africa. There, as a boy, he learned to make baskets so tightly woven they could hold the rain...read more
Paperback:
9780312376031 | Reprint edition (Square Fish, December 26, 2007), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: In a powerful and rhythmic picture book, a grandmother tells the tale of Gullahs and their beautiful sweetgrass baskets that keep their African heritage alive.
Prebinding:
9781439585290 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: As she teaches her granddaughter to sew a traditional sweetgrass basket, a grandmother weaves a story, going back generations to her grandfather's village in faraway Africa.
Product Description: Zarah hates to miss ballet classes. What is she going to do all summer without electricity, microwave, refrigerator, INDOOR PLUMBING? Why does her young cousin Loomis rake dirt all day? And why is that chicken so frizzled?"A sophisticated New Yorker returns unwillingly to her roots when her mother sends her for a summer with her grandmother Quanamina off the Carolina coast...read more
Hardcover:
9780525650942 | Cobblehill, September 1, 1992, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Reluctant to visit her grandmother on her small South Carolina island and miss her ballet classes, aspiring dancer Zarah discovers that her grandmother is the daughter of slaves and learns to appreciate the richness of her heritage
Paperback:
9780595437207 | Iuniverse Inc, May 30, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Zarah hates to miss ballet classes.
9780140369335 | Reprint edition (Puffin, December 1, 1994), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Reluctant to visit her grandmother on her small South Carolina island, aspiring dancer Zarah discovers that her grandmother is the daughter of slaves and learns to appreciate the richness of her heritage
Reinforced:
9780606069441 | Demco Media, December 1, 1994, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Reluctant to visit her grandmother on her small South Carolina island, aspiring dancer Zarah discovers that her grandmother is the daughter of slaves and learns to appreciate the richness of her heritage
Product Description: In this collection of essays, master storyteller Roger Pinckney paints a vivid portrait of his lowcountry South Carolina birthplace and his present home on Daufuskie Island. In a distinctive literary voice with keen sensitivity to current environmental and social issues, Pinckney chronicles a rural community life that is threatened by modern-day intrusions and resort developments...read more
Hardcover:
9780941711722 | Wyrick & Co, April 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this collection of essays, master storyteller Roger Pinckney paints a vivid portrait of his lowcountry South Carolina birthplace and his present home on Daufuskie Island.
Hardcover:
9780070464919, titled "Mathematics for Business and Economics" | McGraw-Hill College, February 1, 1986, cover price $56.05 | also contains Mathematics for Business and Economics
School and Library:
9780374312893 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 2004), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A grandmother tells the tale of Gullahs and their beautiful sweetgrass baskets that keep their African heritage alive.
School and Library:
9780688178215 | Greenwillow, January 1, 2004, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: While visiting her grandmother in the Sea Islands, a young girl hears about her African heritage and learns to weave a sea grass basket.
Library:
9780688178222 | Greenwillow, January 1, 2004, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: While visiting her grandmother in the Sea Islands, a young girl hears about her African heritage and learns to weave a sea grass basket.
Hardcover:
9780525941095 | E P Dutton, October 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Follows one woman's search for her African origins
Paperback:
9780452276079 | Plume, February 1, 1999, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: In the 1920s, New Yorker Amelia Peazant searches for her African roots, a search that takes her back to her mother's home in the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina
Hardcover:
9780679866732 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, December 1, 1996, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Depicts a day in the life of a boy on one of Georgia's barrier islands as sequenced by the Gullah terms for time
9780679966739 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, December 1, 1996, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Depicts a day in the life of a boy on one of Georgia's barrier islands as sequenced by the Gullah terms for time
Hardcover:
9780060248772 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, June 1, 1996, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Jonas wants to keep the memory of his beloved Gullah grandfather alive by representing his family at the traditional storytelling contest, even though he feels like a nervous child trying to do a man's job.
Asked to represent his family at the local storytelling gathering on Sapelo Island, Oree decides to tell an old favorite that has been passed down in his family and discovers the personal meaning of his heritage, in a tale about family tradition in the Gullah community.
Library:
9780060248789 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1996, cover price $13.89 | About this edition: Jonas wants to keep the memory of his beloved Gullah grandfather alive by representing his family at the traditional storytelling contest, even though he feels like a nervous child trying to do a man's job.
Hardcover:
9780070464919 | McGraw-Hill College, February 1, 1986, cover price $56.05 | also contains Circle Unbroken: The Story of a Basket and Its People
Hardcover:
9780872491847 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, June 1, 1970, cover price $14.95
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