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      One Big Open Sky

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      Three women narrate a perilous wagon journey westward that could set them free - or cost them everything they have - in this intergenerational verse novel that explores the history…

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      They Call Me Teach

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      In this stirring and powerfully illustrated story, an enslaved young man uses his ability to read and write to educate others in the pursuit of freedom.

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      Fighting with Love

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      "John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights [when] he was only a teenager. He soon became a leader of a moment that…

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      Bug Club Comprehension Y6 The Road to Freedom 12-pack

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      Bug Club Comprehension is part of Pearson’s Bug Club - the first whole-school phonics-based reading programme that joins books with an online reading world to teach today’s children to read…

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      Leaving Lymon

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      A Junior Library Guild selection –Front jacket flap.

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      Being Clem

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      The final novel in the award-winning Finding Langston trilogy from Coretta Scott King Author Honoree and Scott O'Dell Award medalist Lesa Cline-Ransome.

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      Leaving Lymon

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      A Junior Library Guild selection –Front jacket flap.

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      Being Clem

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      When nine-year-old Clem’s father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family’s losses and struggles in 1940’s Chicago.

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      Not Playing by the Rules: 21 Female Athletes Who Changed Sports

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      Profiles noteworthy women athletes from field hockey pioneer Constance Applebee to Little League pitcher Mo'ne Davis, including Althea Gibson, Mia Hamm, and Syrian refugee swimmer Yusra Mardini.

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      For Lamb

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      An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South.

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      Finding Langston

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      After his mother dies in 1946, 11-year-old Langston and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago as part of the Great Migration. Langston discovers that, unlike the whites-only library in…

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      Finding Langston

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      When eleven-year-old Langston’s father moves them from their home in Alabama to Chicago’s Bronzeville district, it feels like he’s giving up everything he loves.

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      Not Playing by the Rules: 21 Female Athletes Who Changed Sports

      Lesa Cline-Ransome

      Profiles noteworthy women athletes from field hockey pioneer Constance Applebee to Little League pitcher Mo'ne Davis, including Althea Gibson, Mia Hamm, and Syrian refugee swimmer Yusra Mardini.

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      Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician

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      The story of Katherine Johnson, an African American mathematician whose work was critical to the first US space flight –

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      The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne

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      The inspiring story of Ethel Payne, a groundbreaking African American journalist known as the First Lady of the Black Press.

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      Loud and Proud: The Life of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm

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      Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) is a hero and trailblazer. She was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for…

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      Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist

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      From the acclaimed husband-and-wife team who created Satchel Paige comes this biography of a true hero who battled racism and beat the odds to become one of the greatest cyclists…

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      Overground Railroad

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      A girl named Ruth Anne tells the story of her family’s train journey from North Carolina to New York City as part of the Great Migration –

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      Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong

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      From the award winners behind Before She was Harriet comes an incredible work of nonfiction on the life and music of jazz iconic Louis Armstrong.

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      Before She was Harriet

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      A Junior Library Guild Selection. In a lush and lyrical biography of Harriet Tubman, an evocative poem and opulent watercolors come together to honor a woman of humble origins whose…

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      Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage as the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History

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      Celebrates the first widely seen integrated jazz performance: the debut of the Benny Goodman quartet with Teddy Wilson in 1936 Chicago.

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      Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong

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      A picture-book biography of Louis Armstrong, who has been called the most important improviser in the history of jazz. Although his New Orleans neighborhood was poor in nearly everything else…

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      Overground Railroad

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      A girl named Ruth Anne tells the story of her family’s train journey from North Carolina to New York City as part of the Great Migration –

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      Before She Was Harriet

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      A Junior Library Guild Selection. In a lush and lyrical biography of Harriet Tubman, an evocative poem and opulent watercolors come together to honor a woman of humble origins whose…

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      Light in the Darkness: A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret

      Lesa Cline-Ransome

      Rosa and her mama go to school together in the dark of night, silently, afraid that any noise they hear is a patroller on the lookout for escaped slaves. Their…

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      Freedom’s School

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      Hungry for learning, Lizzie and her brother Paul attend a new school built for freed slaves.

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      Young Pele: Soccer’s First Star

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      From a poor Brazilian boy playing soccer with rocks and a ball made from rags, to learning how to play on a team, this is the story of Pelae’s beginning.

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      Words Set Me Free

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      The Story of the Saxophone

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      The award winners behind Before She Was Harriet explore the story of the saxophone, from its beginnings in 1840s Belgium all the way to New Orleans, where an instrument in…

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      Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams

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      Venus and Serena Williams are two of the greatest tennis players of all time. Before they were world famous, they were little girls with big dreams. Cline-Ransome and Coretta Scott…

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      Before She Was Harriet (1 Hardcover/1 CD)

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      Throughout her lifetime Harriet Tubman was known by many names – as General Tubman she was a Union spy, as Moses she led hundreds to freedom on the Underground Railroad…

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      Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between

      Lesa Cline-Ransome

      From the award-winning author of Before She Was Harriet comes another work of lyrical beauty, the story of Henry David Thoreau and businessman Frederic Tudor - and a changing world.

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      The Story of the Saxophone

      James E Ransome, Lesa Cline-Ransome

      You may think that the story of the saxophone begins with Dexter Gordon or Charlie Parker or on a street corner in New Orleans. It really began in 1840 in…

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      The Story of the Saxophone

      James E Ransome, Lesa Cline-Ransome

      You may think that the story of the saxophone begins with Dexter Gordon or Charlie Parker or on a street corner in New Orleans. It really began in 1840 in…

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      My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle’s Journey to Alvin Ailey

      Lesa Cline-Ransome

      A boy discovers his passion for dance and becomes a modern hero in this inspiring picture book biography of Robert Battle, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

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      The Story of the Saxophone Lib/E

      Lesa Cline-Ransome, James E Ransome

      You may think that the story of the saxophone begins with Dexter Gordon or Charlie Parker or on a street corner in New Orleans. It really began in 1840 in…

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      Satchel Paige (1 Hardcover/1 CD)

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      Leroy Satchel Paige was the first African American to pitch in a Major League World Series, and the first Negro Leaguer to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame…

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      She Persisted: Claudette Colvin

      Lesa Cline-Ransome,Chelsea Clinton

      Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up and rose…

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      She Persisted Audio Collection: Volume 1: Harriet Tubman; Claudette Colvin; Virginia Apgar; and more

      Chelsea Clinton,Andrea Davis Pinkney,Lesa Cline-Ransome,Atia Abawi,Sayantani DasGupta

      Inspired by She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up, and rose up against the odds. This collection…

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      For Lamb

      Lesa Cline-Ransome

      Lamb's family strives to better their lives in Jackson, Mississippi, in the late 1930s. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she's a lesbian. Lamb's brother has…

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      For Lamb

      Lesa Cline-Ransome

      Lamb's family strives to better their lives in Jackson, Mississippi, in the late 1930s. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she's a lesbian. Lamb's brother has…

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      For Lamb

      Lesa Cline-Ransome

      Lamb's family strives to better their lives in Jackson, Mississippi, in the late 1930s. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she's a lesbian. Lamb's brother has…

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