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One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams Garcia Publisher Comments Set during one of the most tumultuous years in recent American history, One Crazy Summer is the heartbreaking, funny tale of three girls who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 in search of the mother who abandoned them. It's an unforgettable story... (read more) Your price: $6.99 New - Trade Paper 
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Monster by Walter Dean Myers Publisher Comments A heartbreaking urban romance from award-winning author Paul Griffin Fifteen-year-olds Cece and Mack didn't expect to fall in love. She's a sensitive A student; he's a high school dropout. But soon they're spending every moment together, bonding over a... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Publisher Comments A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D Taylor Publisher Comments "This dramatic sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a powerful novel . . .capable of touching readers of any age." --The Christian Science... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson Publisher Comments The story of America and African Americans is a story of hope and inspiration and unwavering courage. But it is also the story of injustice; of a country divided by law, education, and wealth; of a people whose struggles and achievements helped define... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Hardcover
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Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers Publisher Comments An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover. A coming-of-age tale for young adults set in the trenches of the Vietnam War in the... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton Publisher Comments One long time ago, Pretty Pearl god child lived high on a mountaintop in Africa with all other gods. Curious about mankind and itching to show off her powers, she came down off the mountain with her brother, know-all best god John de Conquer, and sailed... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Mass Market
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Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes Publisher Comments Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown family or lots of friends like the other kids on her street. But what she does have is Mama Ya-Ya, her fiercely loving... (read more) Your price: $6.99 New - Trade Paper
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People Could Fly : American Black Folktales (93 Edition) by Virginia Hamilton Publisher Comments "The well-known author retells 24 black American folk tales in sure storytelling voice: animal tales, supernatural tales, fanciful and cautionary tales, and slave tales of freedom. All are beautifully readable. With the added attraction of 40... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes Synopsis Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown family or lots of friends like the other kids on her street. But what she does have is Mama Ya-Ya, her fiercely loving... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Underground by Shane W. Evans Publisher Comments One of School Library Journals Best Nonfiction Books of 2011A family silently crawls along the ground. They run barefoot through unlit woods, sleep beneath bushes, take shelter in a kind stranger's home. Where are they heading? They are heading for... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Hardcover
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The Road to Memphis by Mildred D Taylor Publisher Comments "Cassie recounts harrowing events during late 1941. An engrossing picture of fine young people endeavoring to find the right way in a world that persistently wrongs them." --Kirkus... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers Publisher Comments An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover. Jimmy hasn't seen his father in nine years. But one day he comes back -- on the run... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson Publisher Comments In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Black Diamond by Pat Mckissack Publisher Comments A stirring tribute to the human drama, legendary heroes, infamous owners, low pay, and long bus rides that were the Negro Leagues.... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Copper Sun (06 Edition) by Sharon M. Draper Publisher Comments When slave traders invade Amari's village, she is dragged to a slave ship bound for the Carolinas. Bought by a plantation owner, Amari befriends a white indentured servant named Polly and struggles to hold on to her memories in the face of hopelessness... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Hardcover
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Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It by Sundee T Frazier Publisher Comments Ten-year-old Tae Kwon Do blue belt and budding rock hound Brendan Buckley keeps a "Confidential" notebook for his top-secret scientific discoveries. And he's found something totally top secret. The grandpa he's never met, who his mom refuses to... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Which Way Freedom? (Obi and Easter Trilogy) by Joyce Hansen Publisher Comments Based on actual events and revealing little known facts about the lives of runaway slaves, this novel follows the lives of Obi, who had never forgotten the sounds of his mother's screams on the day he was sold away from her, and who runs away as the... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Land by Mildred D. Taylor Publisher Comments Millions of fans have followed the Logan family in their seven-book series. Living in the South in the not-so-distant past, the Logans are the only black family to own farmland, while most of their black neighbors are sharecroppers on white-owned land... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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