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| Celebrate Women’s History Month With An Emphasis On The Journey of African Americans BIOGRAPHY: AGES 6 THRU 10 A beautifully detailed homage to a world class musician with a three octave voice. The shimmering semitone pictures enhance the theatrical feast of Marian’s powerful singing. Text underscores the political force of her voice in the African American community. A fictionalized account of the trials and tribulations of the first African American female licensed pilot. Designed in a handsome large format as expansive as the skies she traveled, this account ultimately focuses on her hard earned victory. NONFICTION: AGES 8 THRU 12 A tribute to eight seafaring African Americans from the last 250 years whom not merely crossed the ocean (a feat unto itself!) but followed in the footsteps of the gospel song “How I Got Over”- i.e., pushing on with their difficult lives “in spite of pain, grief and enormous obstacles”. Black and white drawings of each fascinating individual accompanies this highly engaging text. FICTION: AGES 6 THRU 10 A beginning chapter book reader of the vicissitudes of life on the Kansas Prairie in the 1850’s. Charlie Keller and his family are abolitionists with racial trouble brewing in town. A “free-state” man has been killed by a pro slavery man which sets off a chain of events challenging the courage and convictions of the Keller family.# Selene S. Vasquez is a media specialist at Orange Brook Elementary School in Hollywood, Florida. She is formerly a children’s librarian for the New York Public Library.
When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan. Illustrated by Brian Selznick (Scholastic, 40 pp., $16.95)
Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes. Illustrated by E.B. Lewis. (Orchard Books, 48 pp., $16.95)
How They Got Over: African Americans and the Call of the Sea by Eloise Greenfield. Illustrated by Jan Spivey. (Harper Collins, 32 pp., $16.99).
Cabin in the Snow by Deborah Hopkinson. Illustrated by Patrick Faricy. (Aladdin, 74 pp., $11.89)
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