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Minnie Saves the Day

by Rosales, Melodye

Hester Merriweather's grandmother gives her a handmade rag doll that proves to be very special indeed. Includes historical background on Chicago's African-Amer...

Hopscotch Love

A Family Treasury of Love Poems

by Grimes, Nikki & Rosales, Melodye

A collection of more than twenty poems speaking of different kinds of love.

A Strawbeater's Thanksgiving

by Smalls, Irene & Smalls-Hector, Irene & Rosales, Melodye

Determined to be the strawbeater during the corn shucking party, Jess, a small young slave boy, wrestles a bigger, stronger boy for the honor.

Jackson Jones and the Puddle of Thorns

by Quattlebaum, Mary & Rosales, Melodye

When his mother gives him a garden plot for his tenth birthday, Jackson Jones hopes to earn enough money to buy a basketball, but all he seems to get is troubl...

Meet Addy

An American Girl (American Girls Collection)

by Porter, Connie Rose & Rosales, Melodye & Taylor, Dahl

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Kwanzaa

by Chocolate, Deborah M. Newton & Rosales, Melodye

Discusses the holiday in which Afro-Americans celebrate their roots and cultural heritage from Africa.

Beans on the roof

by Byars, Betsy Cromer & Rosales, Melodye

As each of the five members of the Bean family tries to write a "roof" poem, they come to realize just how nice it is to be a Bean.