Freedom in Congo Square

The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem's Greatest Bookstore

Rich: A Dyamonde Daniel Book

The Champ: The Story of Muhammad Ali

Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves

Curls

Once Upon a Time

My Fade Is Fresh

 Through poems and poetic prose pieces, acclaimed children's author Arnold Adoff celebrates that uniquely American form of music called the blues. In his signature "shaped speech" style, he creates a narrative of moments and joyous music, from the drums of the ancestors, the red dirt of the plantations, the current of the mighty Mississippi, and the shackles, blood, and tears of slavery. Each chop of the ax is a beat, each lash of the whip fashions another line on the musical staff. But each sound also creates the chords and harmonies that preserve the ancestors and their stories, and sustain life, faith, and hope into our own times.

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Freedom in Congo Square

Carole Boston Weatherford, R. Gregory Christie, 2016

The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem's Greatest Bookstore

R. Gregory Christie, Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, 2015

Rich: A Dyamonde Daniel Book

R. Gregory Christie, Nikki Grimes, 2009

The Champ: The Story of Muhammad Ali

R. Gregory Christie, Tonya Bolden, 2004

Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, R. Gregory Christie, 2009

Curls

Geneva Bowers, Ruth Forman, 2020

Once Upon a Time

Niki Daly, 2003

My Fade Is Fresh

Kitt Thomas, Shauntay Grant, 2022