Angela Johnson
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Celebrate Juneteenth
Juneteenth for All Ages
Juneteenth: Children's Books
Learning and Teaching About Juneteenth Using Children's Literature
Juneteenth for All Ages
Juneteenth: Children's Books
Learning and Teaching About Juneteenth Using Children's Literature
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In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.
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When love arrives in the form of an enemy, who knew it would be covered in mud?
Baxter Fernley, the Earl of Grafton, takes his duty as a member of the ton with the utmost sincerity, even if King George III has lost his mind. As a respected member of the peerage and the local magistrate, his life has order and meaning until an unruly American woman with a muddy skirt falls at his feet in what he believes to be an attempt at trapping him in marriage.
Briar...
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"Scotty compares herself to tofu: no flavor unless you add something. And it's true that Scotty's friends, Misha and Faclone, and her brother, Keone, make life delicious. But when a terrible accident occurs, Scotty feels responsible for the loss of someone she hardly knew, and the world goes wrong. She cannot tell what is a dream and what is real. Her friends are having a hard time getting through to her and her family is preoccupied with their own...
7) Do like Kyla
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A little girl imitates her big sister Kyla all day, until in the evening Kyla imitates her.
10) Violet's music
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From the days she banged her rattle in the crib, Violet has been looking for friends to share her love of music.
11) A girl like me
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"Empower young readers to embrace their individuality, reject societal limitations, and follow their dreams. This inspiring picture book brings together a poem by acclaimed author Angela Johnson and Nina Crews's distinctive photocollage illustrations to celebrate girls of color" -- Amazon.com
13) Looking for Red
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A thirteen-year-old girl struggles to cope with the loss of her beloved older brother, who disappeared four months earlier off the coast of Cape Cod.
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A battle of wits and one delicious truce...
Miss Myra Astley has always known her future would include a grand love match. When she falls in love with the charming Viscount Southwood, she is certain nothing can intervene to destroy her happiness. But fate, it seems, has other plans. After a chance encounter with a fortune teller, Myra finds her hand shackled to Southwood's infuriatingly arrogant brother, Daniel.
With every attempt to remove the...
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Bound by fate, yet forbidden to love
When Phillip Watson, the Earl of Arundel, awakens battered and broken in a stranger's home, he has no memory of who he is-or who wants him dead. As he pieces together the fragments of his forgotten life, the one bright spot is in a growing affection for Miss Emma Parker.
Emma Parker is a spirited romantic with dreams of a love so powerful it rivals that of Romeo and Juliet. When her father saves a man from the...



