Search Results: Returned 19 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 19
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c1997., Houghton Mifflin Call No: B SIM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of this African American artist, the great-grandson of slaves, who has achieved fame and admiration for his ornamental wrought-iron creations.
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1997., Houghton Mifflin Call No: 739.472 LYONS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of this African-American artist, the great-grandson of slaves, who has achieved fame and admiration for his ornamental wrought-iron creations.
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c2000., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: Hist. Gold Fiction LYONS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.
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2000., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: FIC LYONS Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.
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c2000., Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: 973.7 Lyo Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.
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2000., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery.
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2001, c2000., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Inc. Call No: 973.7 Lyo Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.
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c2000., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Inc. with arrangement with Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.
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c2002., Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: 941.5081 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents first-person accounts from people who remember the potato famine that swept Ireland in the mid-nineteenth-century causing widespread starvation, and includes related illustrations.
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c2002., Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: 941.5081 FEE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents first-person accounts from people who remember the potato famine that swept Ireland in the mid-nineteenth-century causing widespread starvation, and includes related illustrations.
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c2007., Juvenile, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A fictionalized look at the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, in New York, New England, and finally in California during the Gold Rush.
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2007., Juvenile, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: Historical fiction FIC LYONS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description Summary Note: A fictionalized look at the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, in New York, New England, and finally in California during the Gold Rush.
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2008, c2007., Pre-adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A fictionalized look at the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, in New York, New England, and finally in California during the Gold Rush.
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c1992., Scribner ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A fictionalized version of the life of Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of letters that she might have written during her slavery in North Carolina and as she prepared for escape to the North in 1842.
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c1992., Scribner ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A fictionalized version of the life of Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of letters that she might have written during her slavery in North Carolina and as she prepared for escape to the North in 1842.
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1992., Scribner : Maxwell Maxmillan Canada Call No: Historical fiction FIC LYONS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A fictionalized version of the life of Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of letters that she might have written during her slavery in North Carolina and as she prepared for escape to the North in 1842.
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c2005., Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: 398.2 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Florida mechanic Roy Tyle lives up to his slogan, "If Roy can't build it, nobody can," by building a series of increasingly fantastic automobiles. Based on a tall-tale collected by African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston.
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c1990., Juvenile, Scribner's ; Collier Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International Pub. Group Call No: 92 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the life and work of the prolific black author who wrote stories, plays, essays, and articles, recorded black folklore, and was involved in the Harlem Renaissance.
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c1993., Juvenile, Scribners Call No: 746.9 LYONS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African-American artists and artisansSummary Note: An illustrated biography of the African American quilter who made quilts of her favorite Bible stories and folk tales.