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Messy Bessey
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Patricia McKissack |
Summary, Bessey finally cleans up her messyroom. |
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Messy Bessey's closet
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Patricia McKissack |
Summary, Messy Bessey learns a lesson about sharing when she cleans out her closet. |
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Nettie Jo's friends
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Patricia McKissack |
Summary, Nettie Jo desperately needs a needle to sew a new wedding dress for her beloved doll, but the three animals she helps during her search do not seem inclined to give her their assistance in r… |
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African-American scientists
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Patricia McKissack |
Examines the lives and achievements of African-American scientists from colonial days to the present, including Benjamin Banneker, George Washington Carver, and several black astronauts. |
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The Apache
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Patricia McKissack |
Describes the history, customs, religion, government, homes, and day-to-day life of the Apache people of the Southwest. |
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Away west
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Patricia McKissack |
In 1879, thirteen-year-old Everett Turner leaves a life of struggle on his family's farm and runs away to St. Louis, where he works in a livery stable before heading to the all-Black town of Nicodemu… |
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Cenicienta
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Patricia McKissack |
An easy-to-read retelling of Cinderella's trip to a ball at the palace. |
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Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters
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Patricia McKissack |
Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War. |
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Cinderella
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Patricia McKissack |
An easy-to-read retelling of Cinderella's trip to a ball at the palace. |
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God makes all things new
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Patricia McKissack |
Discusses, in simple text and illustrations, the meaning of life and death and God's promise of eternal life. |
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The homerun king
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Patricia McKissack |
During the Depression in Nashville, Tennessee, two baseball-loving brothers host Josh Gibson, a star of the Negro Leagues, in their home, and are motivated to get their own team started as well. |
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Jesse Owens
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Patricia McKissack |
Describes the life of the sharecroppers' son who became an Olympic legend, and challenged Hitler's dream of Aryan superiority. |
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King Midas and his gold
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Patricia McKissack |
King Midas discovers that gold does not make him happy after all especially when he can't eat it or love it. |
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Let my people go
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Patricia McKissack |
The daughter of a free black man who worked as a blacksmith in Charleston, South Carolina, in the early 1800s recalls the stories from the Bible that her father shared with her, relating them to the … |
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A long hard journey
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Patricia McKissack |
A chronicle of the first black-controlled union, made up of Pullman porters, who after years of unfair labor practices staged a battle against a corporate giant resulting in a "David and Goliath" end… |
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Louis Armstrong
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Patricia McKissack |
Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of the jazz trumpeter who was nicknamed Satchmo. |
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Marian Anderson
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Patricia McKissack |
Tells the story of the African-American singer who struggled against prejudice to become one of the great opera performers of the century. |
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The story of Booker T. Washington
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Patricia McKissack |
Traces the life of the African American educator and leader, focusing on his stewardship of Tuskegee Institute. |
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The three bears
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Patricia McKissack |
An easy-to-read retelling of the encounter a family of bears has with a tired and hungry little girl. |
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Three billy goats Gruff
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Patricia McKissack |
An easy-to-read retelling of the fairy tale about three clever goats and a nasty troll. |
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