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A Voice of Her Own: Candlewick Biographies: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet
PaperbackOriginal price $6.99 - Original price $6.99Original price $6.99$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /"Lasky shows not only the facts of Wheatley's life but also the pain of being an accomplished black woman in a segregated world." -- Booklist In 1...
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Chains (Seeds of America Trilogy Series #1)
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling first novel in the historical middle grade The Seeds of America trilogy that sh...
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Freedom's Pen: A Story Based on the Life of the Young Freed Slave and Poet Phillis Wheatley
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Daughters of the Faith: Ordinary Girls Who Lived Extraordinary Lives. 1761—Phillis Wheatley was a little girl of seven or eight years old when sh...
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The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Black ReadsA complement to The New York Times’ “1619 Project”, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Newbery hono...
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El Proyecto 1619: Nacieron Sobre El Agua
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Cuando una estudiante es asignada el trabajo de completar un árbol familiar y solo puede contar tres generaciones atrás, Abuela junta a toda la fam...
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Samuel's Choice
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Samuel is a fourteen-year-old enslaved African American in Brooklyn in 1776 when the fighting between the British and the colonists reaches his d...
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Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Uncover the lives of thirteen African-Americans who fought during the Revolutionary War. Even as American Patriots fought for independence from...
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The Moonlit Vine
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Fourteen-year-old Taína just learned that she is a descendant of a long line of strong Taíno women, but will knowing this help her bring peace and ...
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A Million Quiet Revolutions
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A modern love story, told in verse, about two teenaged trans boys who name themselves after two Revolutionary War soldiers. A lyrical, aching young...
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Ode to My First Car
HardcoverOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /By the critically praised author of A Million Quiet Revolutions, this YA contemporary sapphic romance told in verse is about a bisexual teen girl w...
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Anderson's imaginative and highly intelligent exploration of . . . the ambiguous history of America's origins will leave readers impatient for the ...
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Blue-Eyed Slave
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /IT IS 1764 IN CHARLES TOWN, SOUTH CAROLINA, and Harry's school for enslaved children has been in full swing for twenty years, despite the Negro Act...
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The Story of Mr. Thomas Carney: A Maryland Patriot of the American Revolutionary War
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The Story of Mr. Thomas Carney shares the chronicle of an African American Revolutionary War hero, forged deep in Maryland's early history. It is 1...
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The Story of Mr. Thomas Carney: A Maryland Patriot of the American Revolutionary War
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The Story of Mr. Thomas Carney shares the chronicle of an African American Revolutionary War hero, forged deep in Maryland's early history. It is 1...
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A Forest of Giant Oaks Volume 1 - Independence: Independence
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The Declaration of Independence Was Written in 2011, Not 1776. 17-year-old Christopher "Topher" White's days of living off the grid in Philadelphia...
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Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley
PaperbackOriginal price $10.99 - Original price $10.99Original price $10.99$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /Kidnapped from her home in Senegal and sold as a slave in 1761, a young girl is purchased by the wealthy Wheatley family in Boston. Phillis Wheatle...
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Patriots of African Descent in the Revolutionary War: Part 1
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Many children do not know that African indentured servants, as well as free blacks and slaves, all assisted in the founding of our nation. There we...
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Paloma's Song for Puerto Rico: A Diary from 1898
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Latino, Nuestras Voces shares inspiring Latino stories....
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Paloma's Song for Puerto Rico: A Diary from 1898
HardcoverOriginal price $26.65Original price $26.65 - Original price $26.65Original price $26.65Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Latino, Nuestras Voces shares inspiring Latino stories....
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The Littlest Vaquero: Texas' First Cowboys and How They Helped Win the American Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $9.95 - Original price $9.95Original price $9.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Fictional account of a young vaquero (the first Texas cowboy) on a cattle drive to supply Longhorn cattle to troops in Louisiana fighting the Ameri...
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Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: James Armistead Lafayette
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: James Armistead Lafayette by Kyandreia Jones takes YOU to the heart of the American Revolutionary War. 9-12 year o...
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The World Turned Upside Down: The Yorktown Victory That Won America's Independence
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A dramatic, gripping history of the Siege of Yorktown, the last major battle of the American Revolution, told through vastly different perspectives...
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Claro de Luna
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Taína, una joven de catorce años, acaba de enterarse que es descendiente de una larga línea de fuertes mujeres taínas. Pero, le ayudará esto a tra...
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In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers—who fought for liberty and justice for all—were slave owners? Through the powerful stories o...
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