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Virginia Hamilton
In a 25th anniversary edition, landmark Newbery Award-winning novel, "M.C. Higgins, The Great, " is reborn in a new package. As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps…
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A monumental collection by one of America's greatest authors of children's literature - and the launch of a new imprint, ReLIT, that republishes lost classics for a modern readership!
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A thought-provoking collection of 25 stories that reflect the wonder and glory of the origins of the world and humankind. A must for mythology shelves .–Booklist. Full color. (All Ages)
Allen Hamilton
This is the eighth volume in a series of land tax records, which offer a wealth of valuable genealogical data presented in a convenient table format with entries listed alphabetically…
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Nina Mikkelsen
Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.
Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of…
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In this Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning novel, a black family moves into an enormous house once used to hide runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery…
A Newbery Honor Book. Two black eighth-grade boys in New York–one a neurotic, obese, musical prodigy, the other a homeless, tough-minded child of the streets–are the protagonists in an extraordinary…
A man who sits on his gleaming, 40-foot steel pole, towering over his home onSarah’s Mountain, dreams of escape for himself and his family one day when hewitnesses two strangers…
In a 25th anniversary edition, landmark Newbery Award-winning novel, M.C. Higgins, The Great, is reborn in a new package. As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer…
Julie K. Rubini
Long before she wrote The House of Dies Drear, M. C. Higgins, the Great, and many other children’s classics, Virginia Hamilton grew up among her extended family near Yellow Springs…
Written by a master storyteller and based on historical fact, here is the riveting account of the escape, the recapture, and the sensational 1854 trial of fugitive slave Anthony Burns…
In a gorgeous tale of an unexpected friendship, ten-year-old Dreenie feels both intrigued and frightened when she thinks about the girl nicknamed Bluish, whose leukemia is making her pale and…
Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a retarded brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of…
Virginia Hamilton Adair
Now in paperback comes a true literary landmark–one of the most successful serious books of poetry of our era.
Virginia Hamilton,Eros Keith
An absorbing mystery (about a Negro boy’s house, once part of the Underground Railroad), enriched with perceptive insights into certain aspects of the Negro American’s heritage. – Booklist. An ALA…
In this powerful novel researched in NYC schools, Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton documents the struggle young people face as they simultaneously assert their independence and yearn for guidance.
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In this classic novel, a summer at her uncle’s farm is made special for Elizabeth because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who…
Nina Crews
This lyrical picture book biography tells the story of one of America's most celebrated children's book authors, Virginia Hamilton, the first African American to win the Newbery Medal, and is…
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S. N. Goenka
Weaving together material from many sources, this collection provides a context for understanding death–whether our own or a loved one’s–and experiencing it with awareness and equanimity. It features passages from…
Rediscover America’s most honored writer of children’s literature in this deluxe collector’s edition of her finest work: five classic novels about African American young people confronting the world and its…
John Hamilton
Presents the history, geography, climate, plants and animals, cities, transportation, natural resources, industry, sports, entertainment, and people of Virginia, as well as general facts about the state.
In this retelling of a folktale, a group of slaves, unable to bear their sadness and starvation any longer, calls upon the African magic that allows them to fly away.
Philip Gosse
This new and improved edition of Letters from Alabama offers a valuable window into pioneer Alabama and the landscape and life-forms encountered by early settlers of the state. Edited by…
Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.
Rev. and updated information on author and illustrators on jacket and end of book.
Nikki Giovanni
Presents a collection of poetry that captures the essence of the African American experience for young people. This work is intended for ages 10 to 16 years.
Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.
In the tradition of Hamilton’s The People Could Fly and In the Beginning, a dramatic new collection of 25 compelling tales from the female African American storytelling tradition. Each story…
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, New York, in 1985, and subsequently published in different form by…
Hamilton James Eckenrode
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Hamilton J Eckenrode
Describes the geography, history, people, government, and economy of the mountain state.
The 1900 Census (population 13,770) contains twenty-one columns of data for three major districts: Capeville, Eastville, and Franktown.
W. H. Hamilton
Written after he left northwestern South Dakota, pioneer rancher W. H. Hamilton provides observations about ranching, stock handling, hunting, weather, soil, wildlife, and the landscape. Illustrated, notes.
Michelle Hamilton
Throughout the storied history of Virginia, ghost stories, both real and fictional, were published to whet the appetite of the public. The trauma of the Civil War left literal and…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Patrick Hamilton Baskervill
John Hamilton Howard
