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261) Just like Jesse Owens

Author

Young, Andrew

Pub. Date

2022.

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"As a boy, Andrew Young learned a vital lesson from his parents when a local chapter of the Nazi party instigated racial unrest in their hometown of New Orleans in the 1930s. While Hitler's teachings promoted White supremacy, Andrew's father, told him that when dealing with the sickness of racism, Don't get mad, get smart. To drive home this idea, Andrew Young Senior took his family to the local movie house to see a newsreel of track star Jesse Owens...

262) The relatives came

Author

Rylant, Cynthia

Pub. Date

[1999]

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The relatives come to visit from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time.

263) Somebody's new pajamas

Author

Jackson, Isaac

Pub. Date

[1996]

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When two boys from different backgrounds become friends and sleep over at each other's homes, they exchange ideas about sleepwear as well as about family life.

264) Once upon a midnight eerie: the misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe

Author

McAlpine, Gordon

Series

Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe volume 2
Misadventures of Edgar and Allan Poe volume 2

Pub. Date

2014.

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Edgar and Allan Poe, great-great-great-great-grandnephews of the legendary Edgar Allan Poe, managed to outwit the nefarious Professor P. Pangborn Perry, who is determined to kill one of them in order to prove a mad scientific theory. Now the boys are in New Orleans, about to play the young Poe in a feature film. But the role may cost them their lives, because now someone else wants them dead. But who? Can the twins, with the help of their co-stars,...