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1) Count your way through Russia

Author

Pub. Date

1987

Physical Desc

24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 25 cm

Language

English

Description

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Presents the numbers one through ten in Russian, using each number to introduce concepts about the Soviet Union and Russian culture.

2) Bound for America: the forced migration of Africans to the New World

Author

Pub. Date

1999

Lexile measure

1220L

Physical Desc

48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm

Language

English

Description

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Discusses the European enslavement of Africans, including their capture, branding, conditions on slave ships, shipboard mutinies, and arrival in the Americas.

3) Champion: the story of Muhammad Ali

Author

Pub. Date

2002

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm

Language

English

Description

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A biography of Muhammad Ali, from his childhood in Louisville, Kentucky, his legendary boxing career, and his conversion to Islam and opposition to the war in Vietnam, to his appearance at the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta.

4) Count your way through the Arab world

Author

Pub. Date

1987

Physical Desc

24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 x 24 cm

Language

English

Description

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Uses Arabic numerals from one to ten to introduce concepts about Arab countries and Arab culture.

5) I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr

Author

Pub. Date

1992

Edition

[Millbrook Press library ed.].

Physical Desc

111 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Language

English

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Presents the life, words, and principles of the noted civil rights worker through extensive quotations from his speeches and writings.

6) Christopher Columbus: admiral of the ocean sea

Author

Series

Scholastic biography

Pub. Date

1991

Physical Desc

138 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm.

Language

English

7) India under Indira and Rajiv Gandhi

Author

Pub. Date

1989

Physical Desc

104 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

8) Black music in America: a history through its people

Author

Pub. Date

1987

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

9) The Statue of Liberty, America's proud lady

Author

Pub. Date

1986

Physical Desc

48 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

10) Count your way through Africa

Author

Pub. Date

1989

Physical Desc

22 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Language

English

11) The March on Washington

Author

Pub. Date

1993

Edition

1st ed.

Lexile measure

1200L

Physical Desc

xiii, 144 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

12) Lena Horne

Author

Pub. Date

1983

Physical Desc

160 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 23 cm

Language

English

13) Queen of the blues: a biography of Dinah Washington

Author

Pub. Date

1987

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

239 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : photographs ; 22 cm

Language

English

14) Winnie Mandela: life of struggle

Author

Pub. Date

1988

Physical Desc

179 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm

Language

English

15) Thurgood Marshall: a life for justice

Author

Pub. Date

1992

Physical Desc

163 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

16) Amazing grace: the story behind the song

Author

Pub. Date

1992

Physical Desc

48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

17) Space challenger: the story of Guion Bluford : an authorized biography

Author

Series

HBJ treasury of literature

Pub. Date

1993

Physical Desc

64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Language

English

18) The Harlem Renaissance

Author

Pub. Date

1996

Physical Desc

192 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Language

English

19) James Van DerZee: the picture-takin' man

Author

Pub. Date

1991

Lexile measure

1070L

Physical Desc

256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Language

English

20) Count your way through Japan

Author

Pub. Date

1987

Physical Desc

24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 25 cm

Language

English