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1) Irene's wish
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A little girl ... wishes for her father to be home more, but she never expects her wish to come true the way it does"--
2) Thunder Rose
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Unusual from the day she is born, Thunder Rose performs all sorts of amazing feats, including building fences, taming a stampeding herd of steers, capturing a gang of rustlers, and turning aside a tornado.
3) Big Jabe
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Momma Mary tells stories about a special young man who does wondrous things, especially for the slaves on the Plenty Plantation.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
41 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mr. Perkins has a big surprise for the annual block party, but when the truck carrying it there breaks down, twins Jada and Jamal and their best friends, Josh and Carlita, propose a different form of transportation.
5) Freedom bird
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
139 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old slave girl begins writing in a journal where she documents her journey via the Underground Railroad from Alexandria, Virginia, to freedom in St. Catharines, Canada.
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