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Rosetta, Rosetta, Sit By Me!
Linda Walvoord
eBook (Two Lions, Jan. 15, 2013)Frederick Douglass’s daughter tells her own story of segregation and triumph."Rosetta, Rosetta, Sit by me!" That’s what the white girls at Miss Tracy’s Female Seminary yell when Rosetta, Frederick Douglass’s nine-year-old daughter, shows up on the first day of school. But things don’t turn out the way she expects. Not only does she have to study in a classroom all by herself, but she’s also kept apart at recess. Told in Rosetta’s voice, and illustrated throughout, this remarkable chapter book includes a biographical endnote; a time line; reproductions of a letter from Rosetta to her father and Frederick Douglass’s newspaper, the North Star; and source notes.
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My Body Is Private
Linda Walvoord Girard, Rodney Pate
Paperback (Albert Whitman & Company, Jan. 1, 1984)Julie, who is eight or nine, talks about privacy and about saying "no" to touching that makes her uncomfortable.
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At Daddy's on Saturdays
Linda Walvoord Girard, Judith Friedman
Paperback (Albert Whitman & Company, Jan. 1, 1987)Although her parents' divorce causes her to feel anger, concern, and sadness, Katie discovers that she can keep a loving relationship with her father even though he lives apart from her.
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We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo
Linda Walvoord Girard, Linda Shute
eBook (Albert Whitman & Company, July 29, 2014)A story of interracial adoption about nine-year-old Ben, who was adopted from Korea, and who has questions about his adoption.
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Who Is a Stranger and What Should I Do?
Linda Walvoord Girard
Hardcover (Albert Whitman & Co, Jan. 1, 1985)Explains how to deal with strangers in public places, on the telephone, and in cars, emphasizing situations in which the best thing to do is run away or talk to another adult.
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Rosetta, Rosetta, Sit by Me!
Linda Walvoord
Hardcover (Two Lions, Oct. 1, 2004)Frederick Douglass’s daughter tells her own story of segregation and triumph."Rosetta, Rosetta, Sit by me!" That’s what the white girls at Miss Tracy’s Female Seminary yell when Rosetta, Frederick Douglass’s nine-year-old daughter, shows up on the first day of school. But things don’t turn out the way she expects. Not only does she have to study in a classroom all by herself, but she’s also kept apart at recess. Told in Rosetta’s voice, and illustrated throughout, this remarkable chapter book includes a biographical endnote; a time line; reproductions of a letter from Rosetta to her father and Frederick Douglass’s newspaper, the North Star; and source notes.
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My Body Is Private
Linda Walvoord Girard, Rodney Pate
eBook (Albert Whitman & Company, Jan. 1, 1984)This book is specially designed in Amazon's fixed-layout KF8 format with region magnification. Double-tap on an area of text to zoom and read. Julie, who is eight or nine, talks about privacy and about saying "no" to touching that makes her uncomfortable.
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We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo
Linda Walvoord Girard, Linda Shute
Paperback (Albert Whitman & Company, Jan. 1, 1989)A story of interracial adoption about nine-year-old Ben, who was adopted from Korea, and who has questions about his adoption.
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Adoption Is for Always
Linda Walvoord Girard, Judith Friedman
Paperback (Albert Whitman & Company, Jan. 1, 1986)Although Celia reacts to having been adopted with anger and insecurity, her parents help her accept her feelings and celebrate their love for her by making her adoption a family holiday.
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We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo
Linda Walvoord Girard, Linda Shute
Library Binding (Albert Whitman & Co, March 1, 1989)Nine-year-old Benjamin Koo Andrews, adopted from Korea as an infant, describes what it's like to grow up adopted from another country.
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Adoption Is for Always
Linda Walvoord Girard, Judith Friedman
language (Albert Whitman & Company, Jan. 1, 1986)Although Celia reacts to having been adopted with anger and insecurity, her parents help her accept her feelings and celebrate their love for her by making her adoption a family holiday.
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At Daddy's on Saturdays
Linda Walvoord Girard, Judith Friedman
language (Albert Whitman & Company, Jan. 1, 1987)This book is specially designed in Amazon's fixed-layout KF8 format with region magnification. Double-tap on an area of text to zoom and read. Although her parents' divorce causes her to feel anger, concern, and sadness, Katie discovers that she can keep a loving relationship with her father even though he lives apart from her.