Because Ms. Oliver, you know Ms. Dorothy Oliver, said the other day she spoke to the director and he said I was already in, even though I hadn't finished the interview process. I mean, I've been preliminarily accepted to the program.
And to my sister Dorothy Oliver for letting me bunk in her house , reading everything I wrote and loving me no matter what , even after I talked her into selling her house and moving to Italy . I'm glad you're back in the United States ...
Based on true events, Circle of Fire is a moving and suspenseful story of friendship and race relations in the segregated South. This ebook includes a historical afterword.
Addy is overjoyed when Poppa's new boss invites her family to live on his property in Philadelphia's elegant Society Hill neighborhood, but she soon discovers that their new home holds dangerous secrets. Simultaneous.
Bravery, defiance, and a touch of magic win out over hatred in this acclaimed story by Elevelyn Coleman. Tyrone Geter's paintings richly evoke its heat, mood, and legendary spirit.
A young girl’s life changes forever when she investigates a mystery with the help of writers, artists, and musicians in 1920s Harlem Bessie Coulter has no idea why her father spirits her and her brother, Eddie, away from their home in ...
When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier.
Daddy Wes tells how Africans were brought to America as slaves, but promises his children that as long as they can hear the rhythm of the earth, they will be free.
In the segregated south, a young girl thinks that she can drink from a fountain marked "Whites Only" because she is wearing her white socks.
Daddy Wes tells how Africans were brought to America as slaves, but promises his children that as long as they can hear the rhythm of the earth, they will be free
... itty - bitty - dog barking tree frog voice . Miss Fowler's head jerked up . " Who is making that noise ? " One of my favorite things about frogs and crickets is there ain't hardly no way to tell where the sound they're making is coming ...
In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with their aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously ...
In this “thrilling, suspenseful journey” (Chicago Tribune) Patricia Conley is trying to find out why her man did her wrong and who did him in—and she’s ready to fight back.
Atlanta journalist Patricia Conley's take on men has always been in reaction to a childhood of neglect: "There is an old saying that if you love a man, let him...