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[2016]., Adolescent, Dial Books Call No: Historical fiction FIC NELSON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Connor tries to help his severely depressed father, who learned upon his mother's death that Nonno was not his biological father, by doing research that reveals Dad's father was probably a Tuskegee Airman.
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[2016]., Adolescent, Listening Library Call No: RB FIC NELSON Edition: [Unabridged]. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Connor tries to help his severely depressed father, who learned upon his mother's death that Nonno was not his biological father, by doing research that reveals Dad's father was probably a Tuskegee Airman.
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[2016], Adolescent, Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC Call No: HISTORICAL F NEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Connor tries to help his severely depressed father, who learned upon his mother's death that Nonno was not his biological father, by doing research that reveals Dad's father was probably a Tuskegee Airman.
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[2016]., Adolescent, Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: [FIC] Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Connor tries to help his severely depressed father, who learned upon his mother's death that Nonno was not his biological father, by doing research that reveals Dad's father was probably a Tuskegee Airman.
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2022., Little, Brown and Co. Call No: MEMOIR NF NEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A . . . biography in poems about Augusta Savage, the . . . artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance--with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture"--Provided by publisher.
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2022., Little, Brown and Co. Call No: BIOGRAPHY NF AUG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A . . . biography in poems about Augusta Savage, the . . . artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance--with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture"--Provided by publisher.
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c2001., Front Street Call No: 811 NEL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of poems that combine to provide a portrait of the life of nineteenth-century African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver.
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c2001., Juvenile, Front Street Call No: 811 .54 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of poems that combine to provide a portrait of the life of nineteenth-century African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver.
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c2004., Adolescent, Front Street Call No: 811.54 Nel Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a short requiem poem in honor of an early African-American slave, Fortune. A biographical sketch accompanies the poem which offers images of the body and bones of Fortune.
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c2004., Front Street Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF NEL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A series of poems on the life of Fortune, an eighteenth-century African-American slave in New England whose skeleton came to be an exhibit at Connecticut's Mattatuck Museum; includes notes and archival photos.
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c2004, Pre-adolescent, Front Street Call No: 811 .54 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fortune was a slave who lived in Waterbury, Conn., in the late 1700s. He was married and the father of 4 children. When Fortune died in 1798, his master, Dr. Porter, preserved his skeleton to further the study of anatomy. Now the skeleton is in the Mattatuck Museum where it is still being studied.
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c2004., Front Street Call No: 811 NEL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A series of poems on the life of Fortune, an eighteenth-century African-American slave in New England whose skeleton came to be an exhibit at Connecticut's Mattatuck Museum; includes notes and archival photos.
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2008., Juvenile, Wordsong Call No: 811.5 NEL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Born the prince of Dukandarra, Guinea, Broteer Furro was captured by slave traders at age six. As Broteer stepped off the African continent and onto a cargo ship bound for Rhode Island, the vessel's steward purchased the boy and gave him a new name: Venture. The young man crossed the Atlantic Ocean, landed in Narragansett, and worked through three decades of slavery to buy not only his own freedom but also the freedom of his wife and children. Remarkable in his own time for his Ambition and physical stature, Venture Smith would become known to history as the first man to document both his capture from Africa and life as an American slave. Poems by Marilyn Nelson sit opposite the text of Venture Smith's own narrative.
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c2008, Pre-adolescent, Wordsong Call No: 811 .54 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Born the prince of Dukandarra, Guinea, Broteer Furro was captured by slave traders at age six. Renamed Venture, the young man landed in Narragansett, and worked through three decades of slavery to buy his own freedom and the freedom of his wife and children. Poems by Marilyn Nelson sit opposite the text of Venture Smith's own narrative.
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2008., Wordsong Call No: 811 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of poems by Marilyn Nelson, accompanied by prose by African slave Venture Smith and watercolor painting by Deborah Dancy.
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[2014], Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC Call No: 811 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author reflects on her childhood in the 1950s and her development as an artist and young woman through fifty poems that consider such influences as the Civil Rights Movement, the "Red Scare" era, and the feminist movement.
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Ã2014., Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC Call No: 811 NEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author reflects on her childhood in the 1950s and her development as an artist and young woman through fifty poems that consider such influences as the Civil Rights Movement, the "Red Scare" era, and the feminist movement.
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[2014]., Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA LLC Call No: HI-INT 811 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In fifty poems, the author recounts growing up in a military family.
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[2014], Dial Books Call No: 811.54 Nel Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a memoir in poems of poet Marilyn Nelson, in which she discusses her life as a young girl from the age of four to fourteen, in which time she saw and was a part of the Civil Rights movement; witnessed the "Red Scare" and the dangers of the atom bomb; and took part in the beginnings of the feminist movement.
