Pat McKissack
7) Bugs!
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Simple text and illustrations of a variety of insects introduce the numbers one through five.
14) Never forgotten
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In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.
16) Ma Dear's aprons
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Young David Earl always knows what day of the week it is, because his mother, Ma Dear, has a different apron for every day except Sunday.