Anna Carries Water

Anna Carries Water PDF Author: Olive Senior
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781896580609
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
When Anna and her family fetch water from the spring, she wonders when she will learn to carry it on her head like her brothers and sisters.

Anna Carries Water

Anna Carries Water PDF Author: Olive Senior
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781896580609
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
When Anna and her family fetch water from the spring, she wonders when she will learn to carry it on her head like her brothers and sisters.

Boonoonoonous Hair

Boonoonoonous Hair PDF Author: Olive Senior
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781926890227
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
In this picture book, a young black girl learns to love her difficult-to-manage hair.

Blue Mountain Trouble

Blue Mountain Trouble PDF Author: Martin Mordecai
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545298970
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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Book Description
"An utterly gorgeous, magical story, rendered with sheer grace and honesty. This book will transport you." -- Daniel José Older, New York Times bestselling author of Shadowshaper Way up in the misty island mountains of Jamaica live eleven-year-old twins Pollyread and Jackson Gilmore. Pollyread is smart as a whip and tart as a lime. Jackson's sweet as a mango. Both of them know all the rules of their village -- and how to break them.Then a young thug named Jammy sweeps in to stir up the twins' world. He even seems to be targeting their family. But are Pollyread's smart mouth and Jackson's steadiness enough to take him on -- or will Jammy and his secret change the Gilmore family forever?

Anna's Art Adventure

Anna's Art Adventure PDF Author: Bjorn Sortland
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
ISBN: 9781575053769
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Book Description
On her search for the art museum's bathroom, Anna meets famous artists, becomes part of some of their paintings, and makes her own art.

Hope Springs

Hope Springs PDF Author: Eric Walters
Publisher: Tundra Books
ISBN: 1770495304
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Book Description
A drought has settled in the area around the orphanage where Boniface lives. There are long line-ups at the tiny spring where all the local people get their water, and suddenly the orphans are pushed to the back of the line, unwelcome. Boniface's houseparent, Henry, tells him that the people were mean out of fear--they feared there would not be enough water for their families. When the building of the orphanage's well is completed, Boniface has an idea to help the villagers. A lovely story of kindness and heart, this story shows that, through compassion and understanding, true generosity can spring from unexpected places.

Lala's Words

Lala's Words PDF Author: Gracey Zhang
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338783548
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Book Description
Winner of the 2022 Ezra Jack Keats Illustrator Award! From debut author-illustrator Gracey Zhang comes a timeless and timely picture book that celebrates the unassuming power of kind words. Oh, there goes Lala! She carries a pot of water around the corner, down the block, and over the fence, to a patch of dirt and concrete where tiny weeds sprout. "Hello, hello, friends!" she whispers. Lala waters the plants every day, but it is her kind words that make them sway and nod. Lala's wild nature and quiet compassion enchant in this evergreen story about the power of kind words and the magic of being loved for who you are.

Huevos Rancheros

Huevos Rancheros PDF Author: Stefan Czernecki
Publisher: Tradewind Books
ISBN: 1896580238
Category : Chickens
Languages : en
Pages : 5

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Book Description
A chicken outwits a coyote and they become friends for life.

Tree of Smoke

Tree of Smoke PDF Author: Denis Johnson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374279127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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Book Description
Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

The Bluest of Blues

The Bluest of Blues PDF Author: Fiona Robinson
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683352890
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
A gorgeous picture book biography of botanist and photographer Anna Atkins--the first person to ever publish a book of photography After losing her mother very early in life, Anna Atkins (1799–1871) was raised by her loving father. He gave her a scientific education, which was highly unusual for women and girls in the early 19th century. Fascinated with the plant life around her, Anna became a botanist. She recorded all her findings in detailed illustrations and engravings, until the invention of cyanotype photography in 1842. Anna used this new technology in order to catalogue plant specimens—a true marriage of science and art. In 1843, Anna published the book Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions with handwritten text and cyanotype photographs. It is considered the first book of photographs ever published. Weaving together histories of women, science, and art, The Bluest of Blues will inspire young readers to embark on their own journeys of discovery and creativity.

Miracle at St. Anna

Miracle at St. Anna PDF Author: James McBride
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1573229717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Book Description
Now a Spike Lee film, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, Five-Carat Soul, and Kill 'Em and Leave James McBride’s powerful memoir, The Color of Water, was a groundbreaking literary phenomenon that transcended racial and religious boundaries, garnering unprecedented acclaim and topping bestseller lists for more than two years. Now McBride turns his extraordinary gift for storytelling to fiction—in a universal tale of courage and redemption inspired by a little-known historic event. In Miracle at St. Anna, toward the end of World War II, four Buffalo Soldiers from the Army’s Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines. Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with less respect than the enemy they are fighting, they discover humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna di Stazzema—in the peasants who shelter them, in the unspoken affection of an orphaned child, in a newfound faith in fellow man. And even in the face of unspeakable tragedy, they—and we—learn to see the small miracles of life. This acclaimed novel is now a major motion picture directed by Spike Lee.