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Julius Lester
Pinkney’s lively and humorous illustrations are a perfect match for Lester’s contemporary approach, which expertly introduces a modern sense of humor to these 48 tales while paying homage to their…
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Twelve remarkable folktales, culled from the black experience in Africa and America, are freshly retold in the thoroughly original voice of Julius Lester. Arranged by topic – Origins, Love, Heroes…
An examination of all aspects of the slave experience from auction block to whipping post, from the voyage to America to the fight for freedom. Paintings portray the story of…
This book provides a detailed history of the origins and evolution of the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist organization that emerged in the United States in the late 19th…
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Told through flashbacks, foreshadowing, and shifting first-person points of view, this novel about slavery in America follows young Emma, who along with readers will discover that every decision has its…
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In this powerful novel by National Book Award finalist Lester, Amma, the creator god, sends a young man to a plantation in Virginia where he becomes a slave on the…
From the author of Lovesong: Becoming a Jew comes this provocative new novel that asks the question: If God exists, then how could he allow the Holocaust to happen?
In a heartbreaking story about domestic violence, two teenagers must deal with what happens when their father kills their mother.
More than 3,000 years ago, a young girl in Egypt named Almah adored her baby brother named Mosis. She would do anything for their happiness–even shunning their birth parents. Mosis…
A heartbreaking and powerfully dramatic epic on slavery and the struggle to affirm humanity in the midst of it.
W. Hart
This book explores the spiritual dimensions (political, racial, sexual, and violent) of Malcolm X’s journey from Christianity to Islam, Julius Lester’s journey from Christianity to Judaism, and Jan Willis’s journey…
The words of former slaves are accompanied by Lester’s historical commentary and the powerful, muted paintings by Feelings. This Newbery Honor Book has been a touchstone in children’s literature for…
First published 100 years ago, the Uncle Remus tales serve as the largest collection of African-American folklore. In this four-book series, Lester retains the flavor of the tales while dropping…
When the girl, Silence, is sent by the trees to save Yesterday, she doesn’t know what her task is, only that it is important. Returning to the village that cast…
Adapted from the short story The man who was a horse in Julius Lester’s Long journey home (1972).
John Henry is stronger than ten men, and can dig through a mountain faster than a steam drill. Lester retells this African-American folk tale with humor, wit, and energy. Full-color…
Readers learn about the lives of countless slaves and former slaves, who tell about their forced journeys from Africa to the United States, their work in the fields and houses…
With his two sledgehammers pulverizing boulders, John Henry races a steam drill tunneling through a mountain. It’s a deadly contest of man-vs-machine written with such power that this African-American folk…
Award winners Lester and Barbour deliver an original and boldly painted exploration of the commonalities shared by everyone and the details that make each person unique. Full color.
