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"Having lost her mother at a young age, Ella Fitzgerald struggled as a child, especially during the Great Depression. But after winning over the audience with her singing at an Amateur Night at the Apollo, Ella's career began, and she eventually went on to become a world-renowned singer known as the First Lady of Song. Complete with an introduction from Chelsea Clinton, black-and-white illustrations throughout, and a list of ways that readers can...
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A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day.
The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keats’s obvious talent, his father worried that Ezra’s dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one. But Ezra was determined. By high school he was...
The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keats’s obvious talent, his father worried that Ezra’s dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one. But Ezra was determined. By high school he was...
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Vintage Español
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2022.
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Español
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Harriet Tubman, quien naci̤ esclavizada, se convirti̤ en una de las conductoras m̀s exitosas, m̀s decidida y conocida del Ferrocarril Subterr̀neo. Con el amor de su familia firmemente plantado en su coraz̤n, Harriet mir̤ a la Estrella del Norte en busca de orientaci̤n para escapar, y su luz la ayud̤ a salir de la esclavitud. Su coraje le permiti̤ ayudar a muchos otros a llegar tambǐn a tierra de libertad. En este chapter book biogr̀fico...
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Scholastic Press
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[2022]
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English
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"When young Tybre Faw discovers Congressman John Lewis and his heroic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the fight for the right to vote -- Tybre is determined to meet him. Tybre's two grandmothers take him on the seven-hour drive to Selma, Alabama, where Lewis invites Tybre to join him in the annual memorial walk across the Bridge. And so begins a most amazing friendship! In rich, poetic language, Andrea Davis Pinkney weaves the true story...
6) Alvin Ailey
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Hyperion Books for Children
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©1993
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English
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Describes the life, dancing, and choreography of Alvin Ailey, who created his own modern dance company to explore the black experience.
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