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"Empower young readers to embrace their individuality, reject societal limitations, and follow their dreams. This inspiring picture book brings together a poem by acclaimed author Angela Johnson and Nina Crews's distinctive photocollage illustrations to celebrate girls of color" --
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She's got a voice like Keisha Cole, attitude to burn--and is the body-rockin', Bebe-sporting girl everyone in her high school wants to be...or be with. But in real life, sixteen-year-old Elite has a crack-addicted mother, no father in sight, and is secretly raising her sister and two brothers on her own. Now a radio contest has put her up-close-and-personal with mega-hot singer Haneef and their chemistry is too sizzling for Elite to stop pretending....
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A Girl Like Me is a story about the life of an American girl and the life of a West African girl, and how they become sisters. Though their cultures are very different, there are some things that are very much the same in these two girls lives. These similarities make them realize they are not so different and that they have family all around the world.
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I am so grateful for the ability to step beyond my old limits to experience and participate in my own life. Who is the least likely person to reach for her dreams, to step over the baggage that the family disease of alcoholism can create? Who is the least likely person to rise above the loneliness, isolation, and fear of her own shadow? A Girl like Me ...that's who. Simply Sue starts out with a compelling story of struggle, strength, and courage as...
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I'm not supposed to be here.
Death has come for me more than once, and each time it's been a boy who's stood between me and my final breath.
I called him Christopher when he saved me as a child. When he came into my life again, only months ago, I knew him as Wes. Just as he did the time before, he disappeared the moment he made sure I was out of harm's way; as if I didn't need any more saving.
This time, though, death left me with a reminder of...
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A Girl Just Like Me is a book that will take young girls through a brief journey of African American Women's history. Showing young girls that they can be courageous, and that they can do whatever they put their minds to. This book is filled with positive affirmations and career choices, to inspire little girls that they can be anything.
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Nobody's Like Me is a search for self, while simultaneously a tribute to women, family and the positive forces of love over generations. It exposes the raw emotions of a young girl, more spiritual than religious, who attempts to find her place in a world of non-Jews and within her own cultural group. Prejudice, isolation, ostracism, sexuality and lack of identity prevailed, as she moved from predominantly Irish neighborhoods in the Bronx, to her so-called...
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"La Jill Hunt teams up with her daughter Kamaryn for two stories about beloved characters - and these two big, beautiful women are not afraid to live life to the fullest. Married to a Duncan by La Jill Hunt: Sassy and full-figured, Sonya Duncan has been living a fantasy since the day she met her lovable husband, Junior Duncan. But being married to a Duncan is a blessing and a curse. She's living the life of luxury that she's always dreamed of, but...
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