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Day of Tears
On March 2 and 3, 1859, the largest auction of slaves in American history took place in Savannah, Georgia. More than 400 slaves were sold. On the first day of the auction, the skies darkened and torrential rain began falling. The rain continued throughout the two days, stopping only when the auction... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2005 -
The Long Journey Home
Meet Rambler, a runaway slave roaming the countryside with a guitar, who knows the only way to stay free is to keep moving. Louis is another runaway, fleeing the plantation where he was raised, because he is about to be sold. And Jake and Mandy's marriage is damaged by slavery -- and destroyed by fr... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1972 -
From Slave Ship to Freedom Road
"From Slave Ship to Freedom Road" presents the story of slavery from its beginnings on the infamous ships of the Middle Passage to the enslaved Africans and their descendants.... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1998 -
John Henry
John Henry is stronger than ten men, and can dig through a mountain faster than a steam drill. Julius Lester's folksy retelling of a popular African-American folk ballad has warmth, tall tale humor, and boundless energy. <P><P>Jerry Pinkney illustrates the story with "rich colors borrowed from the... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1999 -
Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire
This is the story of Cupid--the god responsible for heartache, sleepless nights, and all those silly love songs--finally getting his comeuppance. When the god of love falls in love himself, things are bound to get interesting. And when he crosses his mama, Venus, in the process . . . Well, things co... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2007 -
When Dad Killed Mom
Jenna and Jeremy knew their parents' marriage was in trouble. But no one could have predicted what would come next. Now with Mom dead and Dad in jail, Jenna and Jeremy must re-create a family of their own. But each guards a secret that could send their fragile new lives into a tailspin. Newbery Hon... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2001 -
Lovesong: Becoming a Jew
Julius Lester was born the son of a black Methodist minister in the south. His book Lovesong is a beautifully written account of his spiritual journey away from the conventions of his Southern heritage and Methodist upbringing, culminating in his personal self-discovery through a conversion to Judai... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2013 -
Pharaoh's Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
Born into slavery, adopted as an infant by a princess, and raised in the palace of mighty Pharaoh, Moses struggles to define himself. And so do the three women who love him: his own embittered mother, forced to give him up by Pharaoh's decree; the Egyptian princess who defies her father and raises ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1999 -
Guardian
There are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty storm. All the other trees who witnessed the evil look down upon the fallen tree with envy. They pray for the day when a wind will end their sufferin... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2008 -
To Be A Slave
A compilation of reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their lives, from those leaving Africa through the Civil War into the 20th century. <P><P> Newbery Medal Honor Book.... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1998 -
To Be a Slave
A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1968 -
Let's Talk About Race
"This wonderful book should be a first choice for all collections and is strongly recommended as a springboard for discussions about differences.” —School Library Journal (starred review)In this acclaimed book, the author of the Newbery Honor Book To Be a Slave shares his own story as he explores wh... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2020 -
And All Our Wounds Forgiven: A Novel
When John Calvin Marshall graduated from Harvard in 1956, he was prepared for a life of teaching and relative tranquility. But history had another plan for him: here, a veteran author re-envisions the Martin Luther King Jr. story in fearful, exciting, and violent terms. Political and provocative, An... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2011 -
The Blues Singers: Ten Who Rocked the World
The blues. It's that low-down feeling that makes you ache from your soul to the soles of your shoes. Here in the voice of a grandfather passing on a legacy to a younger generation, renowned author Julius Lester introduces ten of the hottest black blues singers of our time. The diva Aretha Franklin, ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2001 -
The Knee-High Man and Other Tales
Tales of why dogs chase cats, why the little man wants to be big. Lester skillfully retells these tales from black folklore. ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1972 -
Sam and the Tigers: A New Telling of Little Black Sambo
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman is re-created in a black southern storytelling voice in which the storyteller is involved--a voice readers may recognize from his retellings of The Tales of Uncle Remus, among others. He turns Sam's deals with hungry tigers into an exuberant battle of wits, and ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1996 -
The Last Tales of Uncle Remus
With his boisterous friends and rowdy enemies, Brer Rabbit is on the road to adventure. He gets a job and figures out how to get paid--twice a day! ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1994 -
Ackamarackus: Julius Lester's Sumptuously Silly Fantastically Funny Fables
A bee who falls head-over-heels in love with a bluebird? An eagle who is afraid of heights? An alligator in search of cooler waters in Vermont? Readers of all ages will laugh at these irresistible creatures and their gleefully absurd predicaments, all the while unwittingly gathering wisdom about acc... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2001 -
This Strange New Feeling: Three Love Stories from Black History
In two short stories and one novella, Julius Lester has created a rich, layered, and ringing portrait of the slave experience in America, and of the perseverance and bravery it took to seek out love and freedom during that time. Included is the tale of Ellen and William Craft, the escaped slaves who... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1982 -
Cupid
This is the story of Cupid--the god responsible for heartache, sleepless nights, and all those silly love songs--finally getting his comeuppance. When the god of love falls in love himself, things are bound to get interesting. And when he crosses his mama, Venus, in the process . . . Well, things co... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2007 -
Othello: A Novel
Iago has become fiercely jealous of Othello's success as a respected general in the King's army, and lies to make him doubt his wife's faithfulness. Will Othello discover the truth, or lose everything because of a lie?... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1995 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2023