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1) The story of Ruby Bridges

Author

Coles, Robert

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Picture Books for Black History Month

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For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.

2) Ego-tripping and other poems for young people

Author

Giovanni, Nikki

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Thirty-two poems that reflect aspects of the African American experience.

3) La historia de Ruby Bridges

Author

Coles, Robert

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"Es 1960 y Ruby Bridges, de seis años, se acaba de mudar con su familia de Misisipi a Nueva Orleans buscando una vida mejor. Cuando un juez sentencia que Ruby debe asistir al primer grado de la Escuela Primaria William Frantz, en la que todos son blancos, la niña debe encarar las furiosas turbas de padres que no quieren que sus hijos vayan a la escuela con ella. Contada con el poderoso estilo narrativo de Robert Coles y dramáticamente ilustrada...

4) The story of Ruby Bridges

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Harvard professor Robert Coles recounts the story of six-year-old Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans in the 1960s.

5) Ray Charles

Author

Mathis, Sharon Bell

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An illustrated biography of African-American musician Ray Charles, following his life from the age of seven when he lost his sight to age forty by which time he had earned international fame.

6) Wild, wild hair

Author

Grimes, Nikki

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In this rhyming story, an African American girl hides when it's time to comb and braid her hair.

7) Bright eyes, brown skin

Author

Hudson, Cheryl Willis

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Presents a children's rhyming book for early readers about young children who enjoy the daily activities at school.

8) Let's count, baby

Author

Hudson, Cheryl Willis

9) Good morning, baby

Author

Hudson, Cheryl Willis

10) Hard times: an authoritative text, backgrounds, sources, and contemporary reactions, criticism

Author

Dickens, Charles

11) Bleak House: an authoritative and annotated text, illustrations, a note on the text, genesis and composition, backgrounds, criticism

Author

Dickens, Charles

12) Eyewitness: Hungarian photography in the twentieth century : Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsi

Author

Baki, Péter

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"Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy and Munkácsi revolutionised photojournalism and art photography in the first hald of the twentieth century. This handsome book examines how these five men, all of whom left their native country to work in Europe and America, established Hungary - that cultural and geographical intersection between east and west - as a crucibleof photography, and explores the influence of their vision and orginality on suceeding...