In 1982 Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmother's birthplace. And what began as a tentative search for information about her family turned into an emotional and spiritual pilgrimage.
The book also features maps that the successive generations of children have 'drawn' which demonstrate the things that have changed - as well as the things that have remained constant.
In My Place in the Sun, George Stevens, Jr. shares his lifelong passion for advancing the art of American film, enlightening audiences, and shining a spotlight on notable figures who inspire us.
In this welcome book children read, color, and learn about Jesus as he invites us all to his special meal called Holy Communion. Presented in a fun, kid-oriented comic book style.
The first black woman to attend the University of Georgia recounts her youthful dreams, her witness to the brutal realities of segregation, and her career as a correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
You simply must read this haunting book." —Mercedes M. Yardley, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Little Dead Red "Sinister undertones steadily build into a genuine sense of doom...as thought-provoking as it is harrowing." —Publishers ...
After moving to an affluent suburb of Denver in 1975, ninth-grader Tiphanie, the only Black girl in her new high school, feels out of place until she befriends another outsider--Jackie Sue, whose "trailer trash" home life makes Tiphanie's ...
Writing in the first person, author Planaria Price and Helen Reichmann West, Barbara's daughter, bring the immediacy of Barbara’s voice to this true account of a young woman whose unlikely survival hinges upon the same determination and ...
... her hard life did not make her bitter , and she ensured that her children had a good and happy life , without too much regard to other people's standards of acceptability . Bill Morgan's portrait of her father is of a sick 42 MY PLACE.
Where is the earth? Where is the sun? Where are the stars? Now with new art by Christine Gore, here is an out-of-this world introduction to the universe for children.
The Sazerac's muse, if not its sole inventor, was just a child when his family, plantation owners originally from France, fled the colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) during that country's long and violent slave rebellions. Antoine ...