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Yellow Bird and me
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Joyce Hansen |
Doris becomes friends with Yellow Bird as she helps him with his studies and his part in the school play and discovers that he has a problem known as dyslexia. |
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One true friend
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Joyce Hansen |
Fourteen-year-old orphan Amir, living in Syracuse, exchanges letters with his friend Doris, still living in their old Bronx neighborhood, in which they share their lives and give each other advice on… |
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Bury me not in a land of slaves
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Joyce Hansen |
An account of African-American life in the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War, based on first-person narratives, contemporary documents, and other historical sources. |
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Breaking ground, breaking silence
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Joyce Hansen |
Describes the discovery and study of the African burial site found in Manhattan in 1991, while excavating for a new building, and what it reveals about the lives of black people in Colonial times. |
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Women of hope
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Joyce Hansen |
Features photographs and biographies of thirteen African-American women, including Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee, and Alice Walker. |
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Home Is With Our Family
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Joyce Hansen |
Now that she is turning thirteen, Maria Peterson envisions new adult prestige and responsibility, like attending abolitionist meetings and listening to inspiring speakers such as Sojourner Truth. The… |
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Captive
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Joyce Hansen |
When Kofi's father, an Ashanti chief, is killed, Kofi is sold as a slave and ends up in Massachusetts, where his fate is in the hands of Paul Cuffe, an African American shipbuilder who works to retur… |
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Out from this place
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Joyce Hansen |
A fourteen-year-old black girl tries to find a fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union army during the Civil War, during the confusing times after the emancipation of the slaves. |
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Which Way Freedom?
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Joyce Hansen |
Obi and Easter Trilogy |
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Home boy
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Joyce Hansen |
As he seeks a place to hide, Marcus, a boy from the Islands now living in the Bronx, tries to figure out how he became involved in the stabbing of a fellow student. |
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The Gift-Giver
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Joyce Hansen |
The year she is in fifth grade, Doris meets a special friend in her Bronx neighborhood. |
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