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Julius Lester

Julius Lester 0000000114547822 Julius Bernard Lester (1939-2018) was a Missouri-born author, musician, and civil rights activist. Graduating from Fisk University, he went on to host radio and TV show...

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Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney

Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney MULTIPLE Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney are renowned authors and illustrators, respectively, known for their influential work in children's literature. Julius Leste...

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Lovesong: Becoming a Jew

by Julius Lester

Lovesong: Becoming a Jew Julius Lester 9781611458022 Nonfiction Arcadia Publishing Arcadia Publishing Julius Lester was born the son of a black Methodist minister in the south. His book Lovesong is a ...

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From Slave Ship to Freedom Road

by Julius Lester

From Slave Ship to Freedom Road Julius Lester 9780140566697 Nonfiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Rod Brown and Julius Lester bring history to life in this profoundly moving exploration of the...

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Sam and the Tigers: A New Telling of Little Black Sambo

by Julius Lester

Sam and the Tigers: A New Telling of Little Black Sambo Julius Lester 9780140562880 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Once upon a time there was a place called Sam-sam-sa-mara, where the anima...

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Black Cowboy, Wild Horses

by Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney

Black Cowboy, Wild Horses Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney 9780593406182 Fiction Dial Books Penguin Random House Bob Lemmons is famous for his ability to track wild horses. He rides his horse, Warrior,...

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The Hungry Ghosts

by Julius Lester

The Hungry Ghosts Julius Lester 9780803725133 Fiction Dial Penguin Random House There are ghosts in the cemetery near Malcolm David’s house, and they?re filling the air with their spooky OOOOOs and EE...

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Guardian

by Julius Lester

Guardian Julius Lester 9780061558900 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins There are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it ...

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Day of Tears

by Julius Lester

Day of Tears Julius Lester 9781423104094 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide On March 2 and 3, 1859, the largest auction of slaves in American history took place in Savannah, Georgia. ...

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Tales of Uncle Remus (Puffin Modern Classics): The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

by Julius Lester

Tales of Uncle Remus (Puffin Modern Classics): The Adventures of Brer Rabbit Julius Lester 9780142407202 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Whether he is besting Brer Fox or sneaking into Mr. M...

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Time’s Memory

by Julius Lester

Time’s Memory Julius Lester 9780374375973 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Amma is the creator god, the master of life and death, and he is worried. His people have always known ...

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The Autobiography of God: A Novel

by Julius Lester

The Autobiography of God: A Novel Julius Lester 9780312348489 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Rebecca Nachman is a Rabbi without a synagogue. Having resigned from her dwindling co...

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The Old African

by Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney

The Old African Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney 9780803725645 Fiction Dial Penguin Random House No one on the plantation had ever heard the Old African’s voice, yet he had spoken to all of them in the...

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Shining

by Sterling Brown, Arthur P. Davis, Ulysses Lee, and Julius Lester

Shining Sterling Brown, Arthur P. Davis, Ulysses Lee, and Julius Lester 9780152007737 Fiction Harcourt Children’s Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt In a small mountain village, a young girl named Shinin...

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When Dad Killed Mom

by Julius Lester

When Dad Killed Mom Julius Lester 9780152046989 Fiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Jenna and Jeremy knew their parents’ marriage was in trouble. But no one could have predic...

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John Henry

by Julius Lester

John Henry Julius Lester 9780140566222 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney’s warm, humorous retelling of a popular African-American folk ballad. When John Henry w...

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When the Beginning Began: Stories about God, the Creatures, and Us

by Julius Lester

When the Beginning Began: Stories about God, the Creatures, and Us Julius Lester 9780152012380 Fiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt This book is astonishing, daring, compellin...

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Sterling Brown, Arthur P. Davis, Ulysses Lee, and Julius Lester

Sterling Brown, Arthur P. Davis, Ulysses Lee, and Julius Lester MULTIPLE

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The Girl Who Saved Yesterday

by Julius Lester

The Girl Who Saved Yesterday Julius Lester 9781939547248 Fiction Creston Books Creston Books When the girl, Silence, is sent by the trees to save Yesterday, she doesn’t know what her task is, only tha...

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And All Our Wounds Forgiven: A Novel

by Julius Lester

And All Our Wounds Forgiven: A Novel Julius Lester 9781611455106 Fiction Arcadia Publishing Arcadia Publishing When John Calvin Marshall graduated from Harvard in 1956, he was prepared for a life of t...

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This Strange New Feeling: Three Love Stories from Black History

by Julius Lester

This Strange New Feeling: Three Love Stories from Black History Julius Lester 9780803731721 Fiction Dial Penguin Random House One of the most complex periods in American history is illuminated by the ...

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Do Lord Remember Me: A Novel

by Julius Lester

Do Lord Remember Me: A Novel Julius Lester 9780312285562 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers In a gray fieldstone house in Nashville, Tennessee, the Reverend Joshua Smith Sr.—the staunch...

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Why Heaven Is Far Away

by Julius Lester

Why Heaven Is Far Away Julius Lester 9780439178716 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. In this heavenly sequel to the critically acclaimed WHAT A TRULY COOL WORLD, a star-studded duo once again f...

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The Blues Singers: Ten Who Rocked the World

by Julius Lester

The Blues Singers: Ten Who Rocked the World Julius Lester 9780786804634 Nonfiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun A Newbery Honor author tells about the blues while profiling ten of the most celebrat...

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Ackamarackus

by Julius Lester

Ackamarackus Julius Lester 9780590489133 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. A read-aloud collection of tall tales provides a cast of animal characters facing unusual situations—such as an eagle ...

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To Be a Slave

by Julius Lester

To Be a Slave Julius Lester 9780141310015 Nonfiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House A Newbery Honor BookWhat was it like to be a slave?  Listen to the words and learn about the lives of countless s...

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Albidaro and the Mischievous Dream

by Julius Lester

Albidaro and the Mischievous Dream Julius Lester 9780803719873 Fiction Dial Penguin Random House Chaos results when a dream tells all the children and animals of the world that they should do whatever...

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What A Truly Cool World

by Julius Lester

What A Truly Cool World Julius Lester 9780590864688 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Discovering that making a world takes a lot of work, God calls on his secretary Bruce and the angel Shaniqu...

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The Long Journey Home: Stories from Black History

by Julius Lester

The Long Journey Home: Stories from Black History Julius Lester 9780140389814 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Meet Rambler, a runaway slave roaming the countryside with a guitar, who knows t...

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This Strange New Feeling

by Julius Lester

This Strange New Feeling Julius Lester 9780590440479 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. No Description Available

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And All Our Wounds Forgiven

by Julius Lester

And All Our Wounds Forgiven Julius Lester 9780156003308 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A novel about the civil rights movement told in four voices-those of assassinated leader John Ca...

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Black Review

by Mel Watkins

Black Review Mel Watkins 9780844600321 Nonfiction Peter Smith Pub Peter Smith Pub Inc Originally published in 1971, Black Review No. 1 was Watkin’s first published book; the literary anthology, incl...

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Falling Pieces of the Broken Sky

by Julius Lester

Falling Pieces of the Broken Sky Julius Lester 9781559700597 Nonfiction Arcadia Publishing Arcadia Publishing The author recounts his political and spiritual odyssey during the past ten years, discuss...

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More Tales of Uncle Remus: Further Adventures of Brer Rabbit, His Friends, Enemies, and Others

by Julius Lester

More Tales of Uncle Remus: Further Adventures of Brer Rabbit, His Friends, Enemies, and Others Julius Lester 9780803704190 Fiction Dial Penguin Random House A retelling of the continuing adventures an...

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The Knee-high Man and Other Tales

by Julius Lester

The Knee-high Man and Other Tales Julius Lester 9780803745933 Nonfiction Dial Penguin Random House Drawing from Black folklore, the author recreates six stories about the wind and the water, Mr. Rabbi...

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This Strange New Feeling

by Julius Lester

This Strange New Feeling Julius Lester 9780803784918 Fiction Dial Penguin Random House One of the most complex periods in American history is illuminated by the love stories of three couples and their...

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All is well

by Julius Lester

All is well Julius Lester 9780688030452 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins

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Who I Am

by Julius Lester

Who I Am Julius Lester 9780803787582 Poetry Dial Penguin Random House A pictorial and poetic celebration of everyday life and the human experience

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The Negro Caravan: Writings by American Negroes

by Julius Lester

The Negro Caravan: Writings by American Negroes Julius Lester 9780405019814 Fiction Arno Press Arno Press The essays, pamphlets and fiction of this anthology have been selected for their social signif...

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Look Out, Whitey! Black Power’s Gon’ Get Your Mama!

by Julius Lester

Look Out, Whitey! Black Power’s Gon’ Get Your Mama! Julius Lester 9780394171395 Nonfiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc.

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Black Feeling Black Talk

by Nikki Giovanni

Black Feeling Black Talk Nikki Giovanni 9780688252946 Poetry Harper Perennial HarperCollins Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement is one of the single most important volumes of modern African-Amer...

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Rod Brown

Rod Brown NONE Rod Brown is a fine artist and the illustrator of We Troubled the Waters and Freedom’s a-Callin’ Me, both by Ntozake Shange, as well as From Slave Ship to Freedom Road by Julius Leste...

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