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As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s...

Illustrated by Raul Colón. © 2008 – Knopf Books for Young Readers. Winner of the 2008 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Younger Readers. This is an outstanding book about how Martin Luther King, Jr. and...

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Across the Alley

Illustrated by E. B. Lewis. © 2006 – Putnam. This story is set in old-time Brooklyn, New York. Abe is a young, white, Jewish boy. Willie is his young, black neighbor. Abe’s grandfather thinks he will...

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Stealing Home.

© 2006, Tundra Books. It is 1947, Joey Sexton’s white, Jewish mother has died and he finds out that his black father is also dead. The only family that will take him are his maternal grandfather and...

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The Legend of Freedom Hill

Illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright & Ying-Hwa Hu © 2000, Lee & Low Books. During the Gold Rush of the 1850′s, Rosabel and Sophie are best friends because they are both outsiders in a very...

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