Ann Warren Turner
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Black History Month Reads for Kids
Black Icons (kids)
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
Resources for Young People
Black Icons (kids)
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
Resources for Young People
Description
"Here is the remarkable true story of how former slave Isabella Baumfree transformed herself into the preacher and orator Sojourner Truth, as told by acclaimed author Ann Turner and award-winning illustrator James Ransome. An iconic figure of the abolitionist and women's rights movements, Sojourner Truth famously spoke out for equal rights roughly one hundred years before the civil rights movement. My Name Is Truth includes a detailed historical note,...
7) Pumpkin Cat
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One stormy night just before Halloween a ginger cat finds shelter and kind people at a library, but at night, all alone, she recognizes that the library cannot be a real home because something is missing.
10) Let's be animals
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Young children imitate the sounds and poses of their favorite animals.
16) Stars for Sarah
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Lying in bed at night, Sarah wonders what life will be like when she moves to her new house, and her mother comes and reassures her.
17) Heron street
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Over the centuries as people settle near the marsh by the sea, herons and other animals are displaced.
20) A lion's hunger
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Poems follow a year in a girl's life as she meets a boy, starts dating him, falls in love, and sees their special relationship come to an end.