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The great cake mystery : Precious Ramotswe's very first case
Before becoming the first female private investigator in Botswana, eight-year-old Precious Ramotswe tracks down a thief who has been stealing her classmates' snacks.
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Subject and Use Index
In the case of subject headings, the subhead \"stories\" refers to books for the readaloud audience; \"fiction,\" to those books intended for independent reading. Starks Alligators—stories: Mahoney Animals—stories: Falatko Apples—stories: Liu Art and artists: Schneiderhan Death: Brunelle Demons—fiction: Morris Deserts—stories: Frawley Divorce—fiction: Marr Dogs—fiction: Daywalt Ducks—stories: Colón Eid—fiction: Àbíké-Íyímídé Emotions—stories: Crespo; Lukoff Environmentalism—stories: Blackwood Ethics and values:
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The jumbies
Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
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We Ask Only for Even-Handed Justice
The sesquicentennial of the Civil War and Reconstruction invites reflection on the broad meaning of American democracy, including the ideals of freedom, equality, racial justice, and selfdetermination. In We Ask Only for EvenHanded Justice, John David Smith brings together a wealth of primary texts—editorials, letters, newspaper articles, and personal testimonies—to illuminate the experience of emancipation for the millions of African Americans enmeshed in the transition from chattel slavery to freedom from 1865 to 1877. The years following Appomattox offered the freed people numerous opportunities and challenges. Exslaves reconnected with relatives dispersed by the domestic slave trade and the vicissitudes of civil war. They sought their own farms and homesteads, education for their children, and legal protection from whites hostile to their new status. They negotiated labor contracts, established local communities, and, following the 1867 Reconstruction Acts, entered local, state, and national politics. Though aided by Freedmen’s Bureau agents and sympathetic whites, former slaves nevertheless faced daunting odds. Ku Klux Klansmen and others terrorized blacks who asserted themselves, many northerners lost interest in their plight, and federal officials gradually left them to their own resources. As a result, former Confederates regained control of the southern state governments following the 1876 presidential election. We Ask Only for EvenHanded Justice is a substantially revised and expanded edition of a book originally published under the title Black Voices from Reconstruction, 1865–1877.
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The cay
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a U-boat, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
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Kirikou and the sorceress
This animated film exquisitely recounts the tale of tiny Kirikou born in an African village in which Karaba the Sorceress has placed a terrible curse. Kirikou sets out on a quest to free his village of the curse and find out the secret of why Karaba is so wicked. Lisa Nesselson of Variety (11/1/99) notes: 'KIRIKOU AND THE SORCERESS employs snappy visuals to tell a catchy story for all ages. A blend of African folktales 'KIRIKOU' has both humor and flair.' Kirikou depicts a precocious newborn infant who battles ignorance, and so-called evil, with endearing perseverance. This film speaks to the child within us all who yearns to express and defend the best in others and ourselves. KIRIKOU's stunning visuals are accented by a traditional music soundtrack by African music giant Youssou N'Dour of Senegal.
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I just want to say good night
In a village on the African plains, a little girl stalls bedtime by saying good night to various animals and objects.
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Ryan Quinn and the lion's claw
Ryan Quinn and his best friend Danny stowaway on a plane to Africa in an attempt to save two revolutionary musicians whose identities have been compromised by a traitor within the Emegency Rescue Committee, while Ryan's parents--ERC operatives--try to track the turncoat back in New York.
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Fictions of Adolescent Carnality: Sexy Sinners and Delinquent Deviants
Turning to the representation of sexual abuse in adolescent fiction, Kokkola's sixth chapter notes the prior absence of a discussion of race in rela- tion to teen sexuality, an absence that becomes prominent in depictions of abused youth: \"The few examples of sexually active Black adolescents in the corpus cluster around depictions of abjection, unwanted pregnan- cies, violence, sexual abuse and the total loss of subjectivity associated with invisibility\" (174). Kokkola's focus on sexually abused teens allows her to indicate the social inconsistencies in concep- tions of teen sexuality when readers or writers desire abuse victims to recover by story's end: \"[T]hese novels about abuse encourage adolescents to take on the duties and accountability of adulthood without being offered the [sexual] freedoms and privileges\" (205).
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