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A Street Called Home
By Robinson, Aminah Brenda Lynn
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-15201-465-0
- Publisher
- San Diego, Calif. : Harcourt Brace & Co., c1997.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 22, 1998
K-Gr 3 In a sweeping depiction of one street, Mount Vernon Avenue, in the real African-American development called Poindexter Village, Robinson has captured the life of a self-sustaining community of the 1940s. Accordion pages fold out to carry readers along the street crowded with shops, people, and things to buy. Centered on each page is a flap that, when lifted, tells what the featured vendor is selling. There's Doctor Kickapoo, the medicine man; the "brownyskin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
