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Los gatos black on Halloween

Montes, Marisa,


Easy to read, rhyming text about Halloween night incorporates Spanish words, from las brujas riding their broomsticks to los monstruos whose monstrous ball is interrupted by a true horror.
Date Published:2006

The Polar Express

Van Allsburg, Chris,


2010 Houghton Mifflin Edition: "Celebrating the 25th Anniversary"-Cover. Not all libraries will circulate accompanying sound disc and ornament. Check with your librarian. Book Links (A.L.A.), July 2006. Booklist. Catholic Library World, November 1996. Elem. School Library Collection, June 2000. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.). School Library Journal. William C. Morris Award, January 1986. Wilson's Children, October 2010. A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.
Date Published:2015

2010 Houghton Mifflin Edition: "Celebrating the 25th Anniversary"-Cover. Not all libraries will circulate accompanying sound disc and ornament. Check with your librarian. Book Links (A.L.A.), July 2006. Booklist. Catholic Library World, November 1996. Elem. School Library Collection, June 2000. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.). School Library Journal. William C. Morris Award, January 1986. Wilson's Children, October 2010. A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.

Date Published:2015

Flying home and other stories

Ellison, Ralph,



Date Published:1996

A stranger and a sojourner

Higgins, Billy D., 1938-,


Chronicles the life of Peter Caulder, a free African-American settler in the Arkansas Territory, discussing his childhood, years as a riflemam in the War of 1812, efforts to establish a community of free-born African-Americans in northern Arkasas, and other related topics.
Date Published:2004

Juneteenth : a novel

Ellison, Ralph,



Date Published:1999

A slave family

Kalman, Bobbie,


"A Bobbie Kalman book" --Cover. Includes index. Slave families -- What is slavery? -- Slavery in the colonies -- Sharing the load -- Marriage and children -- Childhood -- Education for slaves -- Field hands -- House servants -- Trade workers -- Culture from Africa -- Highs and lows -- Freedom -- Quasheba's story. Introduces the personal relationships and daily activities that were part of the family life of slaves in colonial America.
Date Published:2003

"A Bobbie Kalman book" --Cover. Includes index. Slave families -- What is slavery? -- Slavery in the colonies -- Sharing the load -- Marriage and children -- Childhood -- Education for slaves -- Field hands -- House servants -- Trade workers -- Culture from Africa -- Highs and lows -- Freedom -- Quasheba's story. Introduces the personal relationships and daily activities that were part of the family life of slaves in colonial America.

Date Published:2003

Maritcha : a nineteenth-century American girl

Bolden, Tonya,


Maps on endpapers. Presents the personal memoirs of Maritcha Remond Lyons who was born in nineteenth-century New York City and describes how she and her family escaped to Rhode Island during the 1863 Draft riots and how she overcame prejudice to become the first African-American person to graduate from Providence High School.
Date Published:2005

Jazz : a novel

Morrison, Toni,


A mysterious voice weaves the story of an African-American door-to-door salesman of beauty products who shoots his young lover, and his wife who tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife in the winter of 1926.
Date Published:2004

On Juneteenth

Gordon-Reed, Annette,


"This, then, is Texas" -- A Texas town -- Origin stories: Africans in Texas -- People of the past and the present -- Remember the Alamo -- On Juneteenth -- Coda. Junior Library Guild. "'It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.'--Annette Gordon-Reed. The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us. From the earliest presence of black people in Texas--in the 1500s, well before enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown--to the day in Galveston on June 19, 1865, when General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery, Gordon-Reed's insightful and inspiring essays present the saga of a 'frontier' peopled by Native Americans, Anglos, Tejanos, and Blacks that became a slaveholder's republic. Reworking the 'Alamo' framework, Gordon-Reed shows that the slave--and race--based economy not only defined this fractious era of Texas independence, but precipitated the Mexican-American War and the resulting Civil War. A commemoration of Juneteenth and the fraught legacies of slavery that still persist, On Juneteenth is stark reminder that the fight for equality is ongoing"--Provided by the publisher.
Date Published:2021

"This, then, is Texas" -- A Texas town -- Origin stories: Africans in Texas -- People of the past and the present -- Remember the Alamo -- On Juneteenth -- Coda. Junior Library Guild. "'It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.'--Annette Gordon-Reed. The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us. From the earliest presence of black people in Texas--in the 1500s, well before enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown--to the day in Galveston on June 19, 1865, when General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery, Gordon-Reed's insightful and inspiring essays present the saga of a 'frontier' peopled by Native Americans, Anglos, Tejanos, and Blacks that became a slaveholder's republic. Reworking the 'Alamo' framework, Gordon-Reed shows that the slave--and race--based economy not only defined this fractious era of Texas independence, but precipitated the Mexican-American War and the resulting Civil War. A commemoration of Juneteenth and the fraught legacies of slavery that still persist, On Juneteenth is stark reminder that the fight for equality is ongoing"--Provided by the publisher.

Date Published:2021

Celebrating Kwanzaa

Lynch, Seth,


"Portions of this books originally appeared in the book Kwanzaa : Seven days of African-American pride by Carol Gnojewski. All new material in this book authored by Seth Lynch"--T.p. verso. "Kwanzaa is based on seven principles that aid those celebrating in looking at their past and heritage. They think about who they are now and use this knowledge to plan for a bright future. The holiday's founder, Maulana Karenga, believes that the message of Kwanzaa is universal: 'Any message that is good for a particular people speaks not just to that people. It speaks to the world'"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2023

"Portions of this books originally appeared in the book Kwanzaa : Seven days of African-American pride by Carol Gnojewski. All new material in this book authored by Seth Lynch"--T.p. verso. "Kwanzaa is based on seven principles that aid those celebrating in looking at their past and heritage. They think about who they are now and use this knowledge to plan for a bright future. The holiday's founder, Maulana Karenga, believes that the message of Kwanzaa is universal: 'Any message that is good for a particular people speaks not just to that people. It speaks to the world'"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2023

The Blackwell dictionary of Western philosophy

Bunnin, Nicholas,


Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions and explanations of hundreds of terms related to Western philosophy, each with a relevant quotation, and includes biographical profiles.
Date Published:2004

A visual dictionary of a colonial community

Kalman, Bobbie,


Includes index. Uses bright images and short paragraphs and captions to describe colonial people and their homes. Also includes information about life on a plantation, woodworkers, a blacksmith, colonial travel, farm tools, men and women's clothing, and other related material.
Date Published:2008

The Oxford companion to American theatre

Bordman, Gerald Martin,


Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about notable playwrights, plays, actors, directors, producers, songwriters, playhouses, dramatic movements, themes and topics, and influential foreign figures in the history of the American theatre.
Date Published:2004

The American Heritage college dictionary


Contains alphabetically arranged entries that explain the meanings of thousands of English language words, including computer and Internet terms, newly coined words in science, politics, and the arts, and updated biographical and geographical listings, with photographs, drawings, and maps.
Date Published:2007

Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary


Accompanying materials may vary. Includes index. Lacks thumb index; laminated cover. A dictionary of the English language containing 165,000 entries with definitions, pronunciations, word origins, example phrases, synonyms, biographical and geographical names, abbreviations, foreign words and phrases, signs and symbols, and a handbook of style.
Date Published:2006

The Oxford Spanish dictionary : Spanish-English/English-Spanish



Date Published:2001

Random House French-English, English-French dictionary

Gutman, He le`ne,



Date Published:1997

Historical dictionary of the Puritans

Pastoor, Charles, 1969-,


Contains biographical information. Hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries provide information on important people, places, and events that shaped the development and spread of Puritanism.
Date Published:2007

The Grove book of operas

New Grove book of operas


"First edition published in 1992 by Macmillan Press Ltd"--T.p. verso. Provides succinct synopses of more than 250 operas, with additional information on the history of opera, significant works and performers, the state of contemporary opera, and other related topics.
Date Published:2006

Textiles in America, 1650-1870 : a dictionary based on original documents, prints and paintings, commercial records, American merchant's papers, shopkeepers' advertisements, and pattern books with original swatches of cloth

Montgomery, Florence M.,


"A Winterthur/Barra book" Furnishing practices in England and America -- Bed hangings -- Window curtains -- Upholstery -- Textiles for the period room in America -- Dictionary: Introduction to the dictionary; The entries; The plates. Draws on original documents, commercial records, prints, paintings, merchant papers, advertisements, and pattern books to offer a comprehensive overview of textiles in the United States from 1650 to 1870.
Date Published:2007

"A Winterthur/Barra book" Furnishing practices in England and America -- Bed hangings -- Window curtains -- Upholstery -- Textiles for the period room in America -- Dictionary: Introduction to the dictionary; The entries; The plates. Draws on original documents, commercial records, prints, paintings, merchant papers, advertisements, and pattern books to offer a comprehensive overview of textiles in the United States from 1650 to 1870.

Date Published:2007