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Doris becomes friends with Yellow Bird as she helps him with his studies and his part in the school play and discovers that he has a problem known as dyslexia. More
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Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves. More
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The year she is in fifth grade, Doris meets a special friend in her Bronx neighborhood. More
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Obi escapes from slavery during the Civil War, joins a black Union regiment, and soon becomes involved in the bloody fighting at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. More
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Joyce Hansen's brief, well-crafted biographies, and the striking black-and-white photographs that accompany them, reveal the remarkable strength of thirteen African American ... More
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Describes the discovery and study of the African burial site found in Manhattan in 1991, while excavating for a new building, and what it reveals about the lives of black ... More
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An account of African-American life in the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War, based on first-person narratives, contemporary documents, and other historical ... More
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The Underground Railroad was meant to be a set of secret pathways, and its traces have been obscured by time. But Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan, who won a Coretta Scott King ... More
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Fourteen-year-old orphan Amir, living in Syracuse, exchanges letters with his friend Doris, still living in their old Bronx neighborhood, in which they share their lives and ... More
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Why, how, and when did urban life begin? Ancient cities have much to tell us about the social, political, religious, and economic conditions of their times-and also about our ... More
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