African American Experience
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Unspoken: A Story From the Underground Railroad: Hardcover
USD $19.99 Add to cartA young girl's courage is tested in this haunting, wordless story. When a farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding in the barn, she is at once startled and frightened. But the stranger's fearful eyes weigh upon her (read more)
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28-Days: Moments in Black History: Hardcover — OUT OF PRINT
USD $18.99 Add to cartEach day features a different influential figure in African-American history, from Crispus Attucks, the first man shot in the Boston Massacre, sparking the Revolutionary War, to Madame C. J. Walker, who after years of adversity became the wealthiest black woman (read more)
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Child’s Introduction to African American History: Hardcover
USD $19.99 Add to cartJabari Asim goes beyond what's taught in the classroom to reveal a fact-filled history of African American history through politics, activism, sports, entertainment, music, and much more. You'll follow the road to freedom beginning with the slave trade and the (read more)
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Come on Rain!: Hardcover
USD $18.99 Add to cart"Come on, rain!" Tess pleads to the sky as listless vines and parched plants droop in the endless heat. Up and down the block, cats pant while heat wavers off tar patches in the broiling alleyway. More than anything, Tess (read more)
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Hair Love: Hardcover
USD $17.99 Add to cartZuri's hair has a mind of its own. It kinks, coils, and curls every which way. Zuri knows it's beautiful. When Daddy steps in to style it for an extra special occasion, he has a lot to learn. But he (read more)
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Max Found Two Sticks
USD $7.99 Read moreThe story of a young boy’s introduction to the joys of making music, certain to get many a child’s foot tapping and many a youngster drumming. One day when Max doesn’t feel like talking to (read more)
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One Last Word
USD $9.99 Add to cartInspired by the writers of the Harlem Renaissance, bestselling author Nikki Grimes uses "The Golden Shovel" poetic method to create wholly original poems based on the works of master poets like Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Jean Toomer, and others (read more)
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The Other Side: Hardcover
USD $18.99 Add to cartClover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of town from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around the grown-ups' rules by sitting (read more)
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The Talking Eggs: Hardcover
USD $17.99 Add to cartThis was one of my daughter's favorite books when she was little. She loved all the details and twists and turns in the story. It is full of unexpected surprises and colorful events. I also loved that it told (read more)
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African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927
USD $4.00 Add to cartIn the 19th century, abolitionist and African-American periodicals printed thousands of poems by black men and women on such topics as bondage and freedom, hatred and discrimination, racial identity and racial solidarity, along with dialect verse that mythologized the Southern (read more)
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
USD $17.00 Add to cartHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important (read more)
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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History: Hardcover
USD $16.99 Add to cartThis beautifully illustrated board book edition of instant bestseller Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History showcases women who changed the world and is the perfect goodnight book to inspire big dreams.
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Little Leaders: Exceptional Men in Black History: Hardcover
USD $17.99 Add to cartAn important book for readers of all ages, this beautifully illustrated and engagingly written volume brings to life true stories of black men in history. Among these biographies, readers will find aviators and artists, politicians and pop stars, athletes and (read more)
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My Hair is a Garden: Hardcover
USD $16.99 Add to cartOh my! What a gorgeous book! The garden theme in this book will resonate with Waldorf educators around the globe. The theme of reverence for one's own body/hair is a theme that can be felt by all children, regardless (read more)
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Over and Under the Pond: Hardcover
USD $17.99 Add to cartSurprisingly it is difficult to find nature based picture books featuring people of color. That is one reason I love this book. Not only does it teach children about nature but it teaches them that the appreciation of nature is (read more)
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The Shepherd Boy and the Christmas Gifts: Hardcover
USD $17.95 Add to cartNathan wants to be a shepherd like his father but he also loves to craft beautiful figures from wood and wool he collects on the hills. In this unique version of the nativity story, beautifully illustrated by Sanne Dufft, Nathan (read more)
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Freedom Summer
USD $7.99 Add to cartTwo boys—one black, one white—are best friends in the segregated 1960s South in this picture book about friends sticking together through thick and thin. John Henry swims better than anyone I know. He crawls like a catfish, (read more)
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Julian’s World: More Stories Julian Tells
USD $5.99 Add to cartJulian is back with more great tales to tell. There's the one about the day so hot that even frogs wore shoes. Or the time his best friend, Gloria, made the sun move. Sometimes, though, Julian's way with words can (read more)
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The Violet Fairy Book
USD $14.95 Add to cartRomania, Japan, Serbia, Lithuania, Africa, Portugal, and Russia are among the sources of these 35 stories that tell of a haunted forest, chests of gold coins, a magical dog, and a man who outwits a dragon. Perhaps the best English versions (read more)