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The Skirt from Yearling Price: $4.99 Customer Review:  Fourth grader Miata learns the importance of friendship and the need to act responsibly when she realizes that she has left her mother's prized folklore skirt on the school bus. Since she needs to wear it for a Sunday performance, she sets about to break into the bus-encountering various... |
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Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story from HarperTrophy Price: $4.99 Customer Review:  Have you ever saved a family member's life? Well the book Journey To Jo'Burg by Beverly Naidoo is a historical fiction book. My book is about two kids named Tiro and Naledi that saved their little sister, Dineo's life. Dineo had a really bad fever but they didn't have money to take her to the... |
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Houdini: World's Greatest Mystery Man and Escape King from Walker Books for Young Readers Price: $13.22 Customer Review: This is a picture book biography of Houdini. It tells us about his life. It tells us that he practiced his tricks a lot and never gave up on his dreams of becoming a master escape king. The book tells of some of his most famous tricks. |
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Chain of Fire from HarperTrophy Price: $5.99 Customer Review: Chain of Fire is set in South Africa, during the time of the apartheid. One morning in the small village of Bophelong the main characters Naledi and Tiro find white numbers painted on their house. Later they found out that everyone in the village was to be relocated to a new "homeland". The village... |
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A Sweet Smell of Roses from Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Price: $12.37 Customer Review:  When mentioning the Civil Rights movement, we automatically think of Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, and other adults who spoke out against inequality. However, the role of children and young adults is not often discussed, and it should be. A SWEET SMELL OF ROSES by Angela Johnson takes a step... |
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The Terrible, Wonderful Tellin' at Hog Hammock from HarperCollins Publishers |
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The Sound That Jazz Makes from Walker Books for Young Readers Customer Review:  This book is excellent and captures children's imaginations. I used this book to enhance my Jazz History/Improvisation unit and the students couldn't stop asking me question about it. They all wanted to know if it was in the library. It provides a short, rhythmic, simplistic story of the journey of... |
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Grandma's Records from Walker & Company Customer Review: This is a beautiful book - the story and the illustrations will truly touch your heart as they did mine. I am in my thirties and just happened to see this book when passing through the children's section of the library. I had to have this! Eric Velasquez passes on the special gift of remembrance of... |
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The Other Mozart: The Life of the Chevalier Saint-George from Abrams Books for Young Readers Price: $12.89 |
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Rosetta, Rosetta, Sit by Me! from Marshall Cavendish Children's Books Price: $9.72 Customer Review: Rosetta, Rosetta, Sit by Me! is very well written and even better are the illustrations. It's a really moving story of how even before the North and the South fought, desegregation was rising to the surface. The book is written from the viewpoint of Fredrick Douglas's eldest daughter, Rosetta and... |
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