Kadir Nelson
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Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm.
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Presents a biography of the former South African president best known for his political activism and fight to end apartheid.
5) Baby Bear
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Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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As Baby Bear tries to find his way home through the forest, he asks many different woodland creatures for help and finds that much of their advice is more comforting than helpful.
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Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
88 p. : col. ill. ; 29 x 29 cm.
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Describes the glory years of Negro League baseball in the early 1900s, profiling its star athletes and highlighting the challenges faced by the players and the sacrifices made to live out their dreams and play the game they loved.
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An illustrated edition of Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech.
Presents illustrations and the text of the speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, in which he described his visionary dream of equality and brotherhood for humankind.
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Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
[42] p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
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Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, leading many others to freedom, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.
13) Thunder Rose
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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.
14) Coretta Scott
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This extraordinary union of poetry and monumental artwork captures the movement for civil rights in the United States, and honors its most elegant inspiration, Coretta Scott, who in her own right, was a civil rights pioneer who experienced the injustices of the segregated South and who continued her husband's mission after his assassination.
15) The undefeated
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Publisher
Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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"The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"--
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
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The story of Wangari Maathai, who in 1977 founded the Green Belt Movement, an African grassroots organization, and in 2004 was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.