 | Of Corn Silk and Black Braids
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 | The Old Cotton Blues
Publication Date: April 1, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up Dexter, who desperately wants to play a musical instrument, learns to play the harmonica with the help of the old musician Johnny Cotton. ...
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 | Sound the Jubilee
Release Date: February 1, 1995| Age Level: 11 and up During the Civil War, Maddie, a young slave girl, and her family escape to freedom on Roanoke Island, where they and three thousand other former slaves develop an experimental community that ekes out a harsh existence as an island colony. ...
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 | Nettie Jo's Friends
Release Date: March 18, 1989| Age Level: 5 and up Illus. in full color. While searching for a sewing needle to make her doll a new dress, "Nettie Jo helps Miz Rabbit unflop her ears, Fox get the sun out of his eyes, and Panther stop his sneezing. The trio turns up on her doorstep, with a needle as a thank-you gift. McKissack sets her story in the rural South at the turn of the century and offers a feisty black heroine whose ordinary concerns are caressed by fantasy. Cook's oil paintings are suffused with a golden glow...as soft as a kiss, yet filled wtih energy. A warm, witty wedding of...
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 | Zufan and the Flower (English, Spanish, French and Amharic/Ethiopian Edition)
Publication Date: November 1, 2007Zufan and the Flower is based on a true story. Told in four languages - Amharic, English, French and Spanish - it is the first volume in a series about the adventures of Zufan. Intended for children ages four through ten years old, this story of universal appeal is formatted for families to share with their young children. The book teaches lessons of family love and that running from trouble only makes it worse. The presentation of this book helps teach children about different languages and cultures, and allows parents to read the story in new languages. Ha...
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 | Thurgood Marshall (Trailblazers of the Modern World)
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 | The Wagon
Publication Date: September 1996Born into slavery on a Carolina plantation, a young African-American grows up enduring harsh labor and dreaming of the wagon he helped build for the master, envisioning it as a chariot of freedom. ...
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 | Three Golden Keys, The
Release Date: October 1, 1994| Age Level: 7 and up The incomparable range and imagination of Czech artist Peter Sis is known the world over through his animated films, paintings, and best-selling children's books such asKomodo!, The Dragons Are Singing, and Follow The Dream. Now, with The Three Golden Keys, he gives us his most heartfelt and autobiographical work to date: the reworking of three classic Czechoslovakian fairy tales into a haunting illustrated fable of his lost childhood in Prague that is also a deeply felt allegory of the reclamation of a Czech cultural identity after forty-fi...
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 | The Terrible, Wonderful Tellin' at Hog Hammock
Publication Date: June 1996| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up "Oree can go to the tellin' for this family," his grandmother said thoughtfully. "He do have the gift his grandpa left him. " Jonas almost choked on a piece of biscuit.No one called him Oree anymore except for his grandmother-and Jonas knew that she meant serious business when she used his Gullah name. If his grandmother decided it was so, Jonas would have to represent the family at the local tellin'-even if he didn't want to.Grandfather had been the best storyteller on Sapelo Island. And Jonas isn't sure that he inheri...
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 | It Takes a Village
Publication Date: January 1994| Age Level: 4 and up It takes a whole village to raise a child,"" a young girl proudly watches her brother and then realizes that the entire village has been watching them both. ...
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 | Noah
Release Date: January 25, 1999"Sonorous, resonant, richAn altogether stunning achievement." — The Horn Book"Gauch's lilting prose poem provides a graceful, animated underpinning for forceful, elegant oil paintings that locate the story of the Flood in an African setting.A fresh, provocative interpretation, in which the spirited, rhythmic telling and vibrant visuals seem, like the ark's inhabitants, perfectly paired." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)"At once poetic, playful, and reverent." — Booklist (boxed review)...
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 | Suit Shoes
Publication Date: June 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Suit Shoes Written by Quanica A. McClendon Illustrations by Nathaniel M. Quinn Have you ever wondered why we choose the words we use? Sometimes children have a better understanding of words than adults. Suit Shoes is the story of a child's journey with language and how grown-ups just don't get it. A perfect bedtime storybook and pre-K through 3rd grade classic. ...
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 | Croco'nile
Publication Date: September 1994Ten secret hieroglyphic messages are hidden throughout the story of Hamut's and Nekatur's adventures in ancient Egypt, and readers who send in correct translations for all ten receive a free Roy Gerrard paperback in honor of National Children's Book Week. ...
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 | When Mules Flew on Magnolia Street
Release Date: December 10, 2002| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up A new collection of stories by award-winning author Angela Johnson about Charlie and her adventures on Magnolia Street.It's summertime, and that means more adventures for Charlie and her friends on Magnolia Street in this collection of short stories by the author of Maniac Monkeys on Magnolia Street. There are lots of comings and goings on the block this summer. One family disappears, while another--the Magic Family--appears from nowhere. Charlie's best friends, Billy and Lump, go off to camp and have their own adve...
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 | Something Special for Me
Publication Date: April 18, 1983"The coins accumulating in the jar first bought A Chair for My Mother; now the coins are to be used for Rosa's birthday present. She and her mother go downtown so Rosa can pick out what she wants most....This is a sensitive depiction of a warm and loving family....A visual and emotional treat."--School Library Journal. Also available in Spanish-language edition. ...
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 | My House Has Stars
Publication Date: June 1, 2001| Age Level: 5 and up Eight children--from the Philippines, Ghana, Japan, the American Southwest, Brazil, Alaska, Mongolia, and Nepal--share stories of the stars that they can see from their homelands. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | Raven in a Dove House
Publication Date: September 25, 1999| Age Level: 11 and up While spending the summer with Aunt Ursa and her fourteen-year-old cousin Foley, twelve year-old Nell is happy to be in the company of her cousin and his friend Slade until they ask her to hide a pistol in her old doll house. ...
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 | My Steps
Publication Date: September 1996| Age Level: 2 and up The young narrator shares her experiences as a child growing up in the city, using her front steps as a spot for a blanket fort, or as a desk for coloring on, offering a refreshing look at how growing up in an urban environment can be full of fun and friendship. ...
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 | More Than One Ancestry: Part 2
Publication Date: May 17, 2012In many African American families, there have been discussions about Native American family connections. This historical fiction picture book, More than One Ancestry: Part 2, serves as an example of how such connections and disconnections were made.This informative book was written to inspire research into family ties and to foster interest in family reunions for readers ages 8 and older. The main characters, Jeremy and his great-grandfather, appeared in the author's first book, Patriots of African Descent in the Revolutionary War: Part 1.Marion T. Lane is a ret...
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 | All The Colors Of The Earth (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Publication Date: September 1, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Celebrate the colors of children and the colors of the world--not black or white or yellow or red, but roaring brown, whispering gold, tinkling pink, and more. ...
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