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Motown: Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Book #5
Charles R. Smith
Hardcover (Jump At The Sun, Feb. 25, 2002)Here is one of four new additions to the irresistible Motown Baby Love board book series. Paired with scrumptious photos of babies who coem in all clors, shapes, and sizes, the heartfelt lyrics of these timeless Motown songs take on a whole new meaning. You cna never have enough baby love.
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Money Hungry
Sharon Flake
Paperback (Jump At The Sun, April 1, 2003)Thirteen-year-old Raspberry Hill is always scheming about ways to make money. She's starved for the green stuff, and will do just about anything legal to get it-wash cars, sell rotten candy, skip lunch, and clean houses. She is obsessed with making money, having money, smelling money, and touching money. Raspberry is determined that she and her momma will never be homeless again. When they are approved for a Section 8 move to a nice house in Pecan Landings, Raspberry thinks things are looking up. But after their apartment in the projects is robbed, and protest by the rich folks in Pecan Landings force them out of their new house, Raspberry must do everything in her power to keep her world from crumbling.
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Double Dutch
Veronica Chambers
Hardcover (Jump At The Sun, Oct. 30, 2002)None
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Motown: The Way You Do the Things You Do - Book #6
Charles R. Smith
Hardcover (Jump At The Sun, Feb. 25, 2002)Here is one of four new additions to the irresistible Motown Baby Love board book series. Paired with scrumptious photos of babies who come in all colors, shapes, and sizes, the heartfelt lyrics of these timeless Motown songs take on a whole new meaning. You can never have enough baby love.
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Quiet Storm
Lydia Okutoro
Hardcover (Jump At The Sun, April 15, 1999)Provides a groundbreaking collection of poems from various young authors of diverse African ancestries, covering an array of topics, such as family, Black pride, and spirituality.
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The Angels' Lullaby
Joyce Carol Thomas, Pamela Johnson
Board book (Jump At The Sun, Sept. 3, 2001)It's time to say good night The moon is on the rise And seven angels fly down With starlight in their eyes. And so begins this warm and lyrical bedtime lullaby. When the full moon smiles through a little girl's bedroom window, it's time to cuddle up with Mom, Dad, and a bedtime story before falling asleep in the wings of heavenly guardian angels.
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The Hoopster: A Teacher's Guide
Alan Lawrence Sitomer
Paperback (Jump At The Sun, April 4, 2005)Andre Anderson is an African American teenager with a bright future. He loves to play basketball. He loves to hang out with his friends. He loves to laugh. Andre has skills, brains, and heart. He also has a dream. Then he is viciously attacked. Now everything he ever believed about the world has been called into question. Even his deadly jump shot. How down a man get up when he has been unjustly beaten down? Andre is about to find out. Andre is The Hoopster.
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Quiet Storm
Lydia Okutoro
Hardcover (Jump At The Sun, April 15, 1999)A collection of poems celebrating the African diaspora through the eyes of youths of African descent from the United States and around the World
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By Bell Hooks Happy to Be Nappy
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Hardcover (Jump At The Sun, )None
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Quiet Storm
Lydia Okutoro
Paperback (Jump At The Sun, April 1, 2002)This stunning poetry collection encourages readers from all cultures to explore the many threads of their own ancestral roots. Marker poems by wel-known poets, such as Langston Hughes, introduce each themed section of the book.
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Who Am I Without Him?
Sharon Flake
Paperback (Jump At The Sun, )Guys and girls get together, get played, and get real. Who Am I Without Him? is a Booklist Top Ten Romance Novel for Teens and is "breaking new and necessary ground" in twelve short stories about guys and girls falling in and out of love and relationships, testing out ways to communicate with one another, respect each other -- and respect themselves. This is a complex, often humorous, and always on-point exploration of today's teens determined to find love and self-worth . . . any way they know how. Note: this is potentially going to be in a bind-up with You Don't Even Know Me.
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