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A matter of souls
A series of vignettes reveal life in the Deep South for African Americans as they experience discrimination in a doctor's office, lynching, and other forms of oppression, especially during the 1960s.
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Finding someplace
The weekend she turns thirteen, aspiring clothing designer Teresa \"Reesie\" Boone is separated from her family by Hurricane Katrina but during the horrific storm and its aftermath, begins to find strength in herself.
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS/FOLK TALES
For instance, writes Ms. [Margaret Mahy], ''First Brother's amazing ears could hear a fly sneeze from a hundred miles away, while Second Brother's amazing eyes could look right across the hundred miles and see the fly sitting on the Great Wall of China, sneezing and feeling very sorry for itself.'' Such extraneous grace notes - the fly will never be heard from again - enliven Ms. Mahy's writerly account, as do bits of repetitious nonsense (''in half a minute, less than no time'') that readers-along will enjoy anticipating and chorusing. Her greatest accomplishment, though, is a radical reworking of the plot and its implicit message. In her version, the seventh brother's gift is more of a liability, one that a child learning to grapple with emotions will readily appreciate. It seems ''the baby of the family'' is especially sensitive and, when unhappy, weeps ''great big warm salt tears,'' each of them ''large enough to drown an entire village.'' Clearly, it's in everyone's interest to keep him content.
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STOLEN PROMISE
I read Patricia Raybon's Hers column \"Stolen Promise\"(May 3) with great empathy. If I had a daughter, I would feel exactly as she does. However, I am the mother of two African-American sons. Even before the recent events in Los Angeles and Simi Valley, I harbored a real concern about equipping them with the survival skills they will need to reach manhood.
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HOW THE GUINEA FOWL GOT HER SPOTS A Swahili Tale of Friendship. Written and illustrated by Barbara Knutson. Unpaged. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books. $12.95. (Ages 5 to 9)
BARBARA KNUTSON clearly has the gift of storytelling. \"How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots\" is an endearing retelling of a Swahili story, in which Ms. Knutson has woven together the elements of a wonderful friendship and a traditional \"explanation\" folk tale to create a fine and appealing new story.
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IN SHORT; FICTION
GONDAR. By Nicholas Luard. (Simon & Schuster, $19.95.) If you're looking for adventure and romance on a lavish scale, forget the latest television mini-series and pick up this 10th novel by the British writer Nicholas Luard, a rich saga of the Abyssinian kingdom of Gondar and the coming of age of its Queen Esther.
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