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2010., Juvenile, Little, Brown Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the life of Dave, a nineteenth-century slave who went on to become an influential poet, artist, and potter.
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2010., Juvenile, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the mid-nineteenth century a slave known to us only as Dave made beautiful large pots out of the Carolina clay, shaping them with wheel and coil, and signing some with a poem. Hill's poem and Collier's watercolor and collage illustrations show the making of such a pot, step by step, from the gathering and the mixing of the clay, through pulling the pot up from the mound on his wheel, finishing with coils and finally glaze.
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2010., Primary, Little, Brown Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the life of Dave, a nineteenth-century slave who went on to become an influential poet, artist, and potter.
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2010., Little, Brown Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the life of Dave, a nineteenth-century slave who went on to become an influential poet, artist, and potter.
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c2013, Juvenile, Lee & Low Books Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The life of Dave, an enslaved potter who inscribed his works with sayings and poems in spite of South Carolina's slave anti-literacy laws in the years leading up to the Civil War. Includes afterword, author's note, and sources"--Provided by publisher.
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1996, Juvenile, Lothrop Call No: 921 Hug Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.
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c2003., Morgan Reynolds Pub. Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a biography of the African American poet who has received the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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c2003, Pre-adolescent, Raintree Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African American biographies (Chicago, Ill.)Summary Note: Profiles African American writer Langston Hughes, who worked to promote a better understanding of people of different racial, religious, and cultural backgrounds through his poetry and lectures.
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c2013., Juvenile, Heinemann Library Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: American biographiesSummary Note: A biography of the African American poet Langston Hughes.
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[2002], HarperCollins Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An illustrated biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.
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c2002., Juvenile, Enslow Publishers Call No: B Hug Edition: Rev. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great African AmericansSummary Note: Simple text and illustrations describe the life of Langston Hughes, the Harlem poet whose work gave voice to the joy and pain of the African-American experience.
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c2006., Adolescent, Enslow Publishers Call No: B HUGHES Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African-American biography library.Summary Note: The poetry of Langston Hughes pulses with the rhythms of jazz and blues, and the language of the streets. In describing the everyday lives of African Americans, he became the leading African-American poet of the world. Jodie A. Shull s insightful and highly readable new biography sheds light on one of the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance and introduces another generation to his extraordinary outpouring of poetry, short stories, novels, plays, and other work.
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c2006., Adolescent, Enslow Publishers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African-American biography library
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c2006, Pre-adolescent, Compass Point Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Signature lives
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2004, Primary, Orchard Books Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes how the twentieth-century African American poet Langston Hughes affirms his vocation as a writer through the composition of his famous 1921 poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
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2004., Pre-adolescent, Orchard Books Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes how the twentieth-century African American poet Langston Hughes affirms his vocation as a writer through the composition of his famous 1921 poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
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[2019]., Juvenile, Wordsong, an imprint of Highlights Call No: HI-INT B GRI Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her most enduing companions. In this accessible and inspiring memoir that will resonate with young readers and adults alike, Nikki shows how the power of those words helped her conquer the hazards - ordinary and extraordinary - of her life"--Amazon.
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-- Remarkable story of George Moses HortonBy Tate, Don2015., Pre-adolescent, Peachtree Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As a boy, George Moses Horton taught himself to read, and "words loosened the chains of bondage." During six decades of enslavement, he became a poet and the first African American published in the South.
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2003., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of an African girl brought to New England as a slave in 1761 who became famous on both sides of the Atlantic as the first Black poet in America.
