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How To Build A Museum

How To Build A Museum bookcover

| From the Dust Jacket |

For more than one hundred years, people organized committees, planned campaigns, petitioned Congress, rallied communities, raised money, raised hopes that one day there would be a place in the nation’s capital [Read more…] about How To Build A Museum

Filed Under: Adult Readers, Young Readers Tagged With: african americans, american history, non-fiction

This Kid Can Fly

this kid can fly bookcover

Aaron Philip with Tonya Bolden

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Filed Under: Young Readers Tagged With: biography, non-fiction

Capital Days: Michael Shiner’s Journal and the Growth of Our Nation’s Capital

Capital Days By Tonya Bolden

[From the Dust Jacket]

Capital Days spans more than sixty years of American history, highlighting a period of immense change in our country and its capital, much of it witnessed by Michael Shiner, a true American original [Read more…] about Capital Days: Michael Shiner’s Journal and the Growth of Our Nation’s Capital

Filed Under: Young Readers Tagged With: american history

Beautiful Moon (A Child’s Prayer)

Wrritten by Tonya Bolden & Illustrated by Eric Velasquez [Read more…] about Beautiful Moon (A Child’s Prayer)

Filed Under: Young Readers Tagged With: poetry

Searching for Sarah Rector

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Searching for Sarah Rector brings to light the intriguing mystery of Sarah Rector, who was born in 1902 in Indian Territory and later was famously hailed by the Chicago Defender as “the wealthiest colored girl in the world.” [Read more…] about Searching for Sarah Rector

Filed Under: Young Readers Tagged With: history, non-fiction

12 Days of New York

Written by Tonya Bolden & Illustrated by Gilbert Ford [Read more…] about 12 Days of New York

Filed Under: Young Readers Tagged With: fiction, new york

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