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(0)Harriet
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Language
English
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Description
In Uncle Tom's Cabin , Harriet Beecher Stowe created America's first black literary hero as well as the nation's antecedent protest novel. The novel's vast influence on attitudes towards African American slavery was considered an incitation towards the American Civil War; conjointly, its powerful anti-slavery message resonated with readers around the world at its time of publication. With unashamed sentimentality and expressions of faith, Harriet...
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Language
English
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Description
The first comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between Africans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the way both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without a hint of informed consent--a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and...
4) Snow party
Author
Publisher
Blue Apple Books
Language
English
Description
When the first snow of the year falls on the first day of winter, all the snow people have a snow party.
10) Clara Ann Cookie
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
When Clara does not want to get dressed, her mother encourages her to make the meanest, ugliest, scariest faces in the mirror while she assists the girl in putting on her clothes.
11) Class pets
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Mr. Bunsen shows his class how to make a desert environment to house the new class animals.
12) Music class
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Children go to music class where they learn to play the violin.
13) Class worms
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
On Tuesday, Mr. Bunsen brings a Styrofoam cooler containing 200 live animals for class.
14) Ouch!
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Jon falls off of his bicycle but is less than enthusiastic about receiving treatment for the cut on his forehead.
20) Atonement
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take...
