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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
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Series
Publisher
Little Bigfoot
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A beautifully illustrated children's biography of Beverly Cleary, from her roots in Portland to her years as a librarian and an eventual children's book writer. The debut book in Little Bigfoot's new Growing to Greatness series of notable people from the Pacific Northwest"--
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Series
Publisher
R.C. Owen
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance-- paired with full-color, original art from today's most talented female African-American illustrators. Taking inspiration from the unsung women poets of the era, Grimes uses the "Golden Shovel" poetry method to create original poems drawn from the words of ... groundbreaking...
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