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Toning the sweep
Angela Johnson's Coretta Scott King Award winning novel that traces three generations of African American women as they learn one another's truths. Three generations of African American women, each holding on to a separate truth. Their story -- encompassing racism and murder as well as the family commonplaces that make a life -- is one that readers will never forget.
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- 9780590481427
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- 103 pages : illustration ; 17 cm
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- J
Running back to Ludie
The narrator of a collection of bittersweet verses lives with her father and aunt, but will soon visit the mother she has not seen in years and rediscover how it feels to be her mother's daughter. By the author of When I Am Old With You.
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- 0439440823
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- 48 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- 811 JOH
Tell me a story, Mama
In this touching picture book, a mother and preschool-aged daughter talk together as the child is being prepared for bed...Mama's childhood memories, as related by her daughter are warm slices of life from a previous generation. A young girl and her mother remember together all the girl's favorite stories about her mother's childhood.
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- 0590980173
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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One of three
A series of candid reflections by the youngest of three sisters on her daily relationships with her older sisters and family.
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- 9780531070611
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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- J
When I am old with you
"A small child imagines a future when he will be old with his Granddaddy and will sit beside him in a rocking chair and talk about everything...The poignant reality that time will never allow these two to coexist at the same age is softened by the fact that they do not have to be the same age in order to share happy times...The African American child and grandfather are...recognizable to anyone…
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- 0531070352
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- J
Do like Kyla
"'In the morning my big sister Kyla stands at the window, tapping at the birds. I do like Kyla. . . .U So begins a day of follow the leader between a young child and her older sister. . . . A universal story that features a warm and loving black family."--"School Library Journal." Full color. A little girl imitates her big sister Kyla all day, until in the evening Kyla imitates her.
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- 0531070409
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
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- F57
Lily Brown's paintings
Author Angela Johnson and illustrator E. B. Lewis combine their award-winning talents to create a dazzling celebration of family and creativity. When Lily Brown paints, her world starts to change . . . trees wear hats and drink tea, people walk upside down, and apples sing all the way home from the store. It's Lily Brown's world, and it's wondrous. A little paint and a lot of love bring i…
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- 9780439782258
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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- F70
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