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John Lewis in the Lead
A Story of the Civil Rights Movement
By Jim Haskins, Kathleen Benson, Benny Andrews
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A Story of the Civil Rights Movement
By Jim Haskins, Kathleen Benson, Benny Andrews
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A biography of John Lewis, one of the "Big Six" civil rights leaders of the 1960s, focusing on his involvement in Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, and the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

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The Day the Dragon Danced
By Kay Haugaard, Carolyn Reed Barritt
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By Kay Haugaard, Carolyn Reed Barritt
Sugar and her Grandma are going to the Chinese New Year's Day parade, but Grandma is skeptical about New Year's in February and scary dragons.

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Be Water, My Friend
The Early Years of Bruce Lee
By Ken Mochizuki, Dom Lee
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The Early Years of Bruce Lee
By Ken Mochizuki, Dom Lee
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The true story of the formative years of Bruce Lee's early life growing up in Hong Kong in the 1940s and 1950s, before he became an international film star.

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Life of a Genius
Su Dongpo
By Demi
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Su Dongpo
By Demi
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A tribute to the spirited life of one of China's greatest literary and historical heroes--poet, scholar, and statesman Su Dongpo.

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Quiet Hero
The Ira Hayes Story
By S. D. Nelson
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The Ira Hayes Story
By S. D. Nelson
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A biography of Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six soldiers to raise the United States flag on Iwo Jima during World War II, an event immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.

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When the Horses Ride By
Children in the Times of War
By Eloise Greenfield, Jan Spivey Gilchrist
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Children in the Times of War
By Eloise Greenfield, Jan Spivey Gilchrist
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Through these graceful and eloquent poems, written from the child's perspective, readers will experience this resilience, this optimism, and understand that it is possible to get through difficult and unsettling times while holding onto one's hopes and dreams for a better, more peaceful future.

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Catching the Moon
The Story of a Young Girl's Baseball Dream
By Crystal Hubbard, Randy Duburke
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The Story of a Young Girl's Baseball Dream
By Crystal Hubbard, Randy Duburke
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The spirited story of Marcenia Lyle, the African American girl who grew up to become "Toni Stone," the first woman to play for an all-male professional baseball team.

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Elizabeti's Doll - Bebop
By Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, Christy Hale
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Elizabeti's Doll - Bebop
By Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, Christy Hale
A young Tanzanian girl finds a special doll, and realizes how much she loves the doll when she almost loses her.

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Sélavi, That is Life
A Haitian Story of Hope
By Youme Nguyen Ly
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A Haitian Story of Hope
By Youme Nguyen Ly
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On the streets of Haiti, a homeless child learns the meaning of family, solidarity, and hope.

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The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby
By Crystal Hubbard, Robert McGuire
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The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby
By Crystal Hubbard, Robert McGuire
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The story of Jimmy Winkfield, one of horse racing's all-time great jockeys and the last African American to win the Kentucky Derby, in 1902.

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Louis Sockalexis
Native American Baseball Pioneer
By William Wise, Bill Farnsworth
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Native American Baseball Pioneer
By William Wise, Bill Farnsworth
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A biography of Louis Sockalexis, Penobscot Indian and the first Native American to play professional baseball, focusing on his formative years and culminating in an historic game at New York's Polo Grounds in 1897.

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Knockin' On Wood
Starring Peg Leg Bates
By Lynne Barasch
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Starring Peg Leg Bates
By Lynne Barasch
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An inspirational biography of Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates (1907--1998), an African American man who overcame the hardship of losing a leg at age 12 and went on to become a world-renowned tap dancer.

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Love to Langston
By Tony Medina, R. Gregory Christie
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Love to Langston
By Tony Medina, R. Gregory Christie
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This inspiring biography on Langston Hughes celebrates his life through poetry.

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Frederick Douglass
The Last Day of Slavery
By William Miller, Cedric Lucas
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The Last Day of Slavery
By William Miller, Cedric Lucas
The story of the African American abolitionist who, in one dramatic incident, discovered the meaning of freedom.

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Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds
The Sammy Lee Story
By Paula Yoo, Dom Lee
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The Sammy Lee Story
By Paula Yoo, Dom Lee
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The inspirational true story of Sammy Lee, a Korean American who overcame discrimination to realize both his father's desire that he become a doctor and his own dream of becoming an Olympic champion diver.

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Jim Thorpe's Bright Path
By Joseph Bruchac, S. D. Nelson
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Jim Thorpe's Bright Path
By Joseph Bruchac, S. D. Nelson
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A biography of the legendary Native American Jim Thorpe (1888--1953), voted the Greatest Football Player and Greatest Athlete of the Half-Century by two AP polls, focusing on his early childhood and how school and sports shaped his future.

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Rattlesnake Mesa
Stories from a Native American Childhood
By Ednah New Rider Weber, Richela Renkun
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Stories from a Native American Childhood
By Ednah New Rider Weber, Richela Renkun
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A true account of a spirited Native American girl's experiences growing up on a reservation and attending Phoenix Indian School in the 1920s, written in an engaging, unconventional style and accompanied by 38 dramatic photographs.

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African Dance
Drumbeat In Our Feet
By Patricia Keeler, Júlio Leitão
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Drumbeat In Our Feet
By Patricia Keeler, Júlio Leitão
Join an African Dance troupe as they get ready for their show. See how they move and learn where the dances came from.

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Fishing Fun
By Francis McCall, Paul Richardson
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Fishing Fun
By Francis McCall, Paul Richardson
Two African American brothers go fishing with their father and discover it's not what you catch that its important, it's how much fun you have.

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Everglades Forever
Restoring America's Great Wetland
By Trish Marx, Cindy Karp
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Restoring America's Great Wetland
By Trish Marx, Cindy Karp
A photo-essay about the Florida Everglades, its unique ecosystem, and the efforts currently underway to restore this "Wetland of International Importance," told within the framework of a class study project and visit to the Everglades.

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