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Books with author Libba Moore Gray

  • My Mama Had A Dancing Heart

    Libba Moore Gray, Gray/colon, Raul Colon

    Hardcover (Scholastic, Sept. 1, 1995)
    A ballet dancer recalls how she and her mother would welcome each season with a dance outdoors
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  • My Mama/Dancing Heart

    Libba Moore Gray

    Paperback (Live Oak Media, Jan. 1, 2003)
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  • When Uncle Took the Fiddle

    Libba Moore Gray, Lloyd Bloom

    Hardcover (Orchard Books, Sept. 15, 1999)
    When the entire family declares they are exhausted, Uncle reaches for the fiddle, and before you know it, Grandpa's feet are stomping, grandma's hands are clapping, and everyone finds good cheer.
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  • Small Green Snake

    Libba Moore Gray, Holly Meade

    Paperback (Scholastic, Sept. 1, 1997)
    Despite his mother's warning not to wander, Small Green Snake wiggles away to investigate the new sound from across the garden wall
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  • Little Lil and the Swing-Singing Sax

    Libba Moore Gray, Lisa Cohen

    Library Binding (Simon & Schuster, Sept. 1, 1996)
    When Little Lil's mother gets sick, Uncle Sudi Man pawns his saxophone to buy medicine, but Little Lil knows that it is her uncle's jazz music that will really help her mother feel better.
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  • Miss Tizzy

    Libba Moore Gray, Jada Rowland

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback, April 1, 1998)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The eccentric Miss Tizzy, a beloved friend to all the children in her neighborhood, needs their help in remaining happy when she is sick in bed.
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  • My Mama Had a Dancing Heart

    Libba Moore Gray, Raul Colon

    Library Binding
    None
  • Small Green Snake

    Libba Moore Gray, Holly Meade

    Hardcover (Orchard Books, Sept. 1, 1994)
    Striking illustrations, fun sounds, and a rhyming text mark the exciting tale of a little snake who does not heed his mother's warnings and finds himself trapped in a jar, but not for long. Jr Lib Guild.
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  • When Uncle Took the Fiddle

    Libba Moore Gray, Lloyd Bloom

    Hardcover (Orchard Books, Sept. 1, 1999)
    Uncle's inspired playing of the fiddle causes sleepy family members to pick up other instruments and join him, while the neighbors come to join the celebration
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  • My Mama Had a Dancing Heart

    Libba Moore Gray, Raul Colon

    Hardcover (Orchard Books, Sept. 1, 1995)
    Captured by her mother's infectious love of dance, a young girl joyously follows her mother in a dance through the seasons, from a frog-hopping, hello spring ballet through a slow-motioned, snow-angel winter dance.
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  • Dear Willie Rudd

    Libba Moore Gray, Peter M. Fiore

    Paperback (Aladdin, Feb. 1, 2000)
    Fifty years have passed since Miss Elizabeth was a girl, but she still remembers Willie Rudd, the black housekeeper who helped raise her. She remembers the feel of sitting in Willie Rudd's lap while the housekeeper sang to her. And she remembers how Willie Rudd scrubbed the floor on her hands and knees. What would Miss Elizabeth say to Willie Rudd if she were alive today? She decides to write her a letter telling her how things would be different. Now Willie Rudd would come in the front door -- not the back. She would ride in the fornt of the bus with Miss Elizabeth, and they could sit together at the movies. The two of them would have a wonderful time. And in her heartfelt letter, Miss Elizabeth has the chance to tell Willie Rudd something she never told her while she was alive -- that she loved her.
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  • Small Green Snake -Lib -OS

    Libba Moore Gray, Holly Meade

    Library Binding (Rebound by Sagebrush, )
    None
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