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Author: Gabrielle Grimard Publisher: Annick Press ISBN: 9781554518579 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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Lila is bullied because of her dark skin, but the crows have a solution for that! Lila has just moved to a new town and can't wait to make friends at school. But on the first day, a boy points at her and shouts: "A crow! A crow! The new girl's hair is black like a crow!" The others whisper and laugh, and Lila's heart grows as heavy as a stone. The next day, Lila covers her hair. But this time, the boy points at her dark skin. When she covers her face, he mocks her dark eyes. Now every day at school, Lila hides under her turtleneck, dark glasses, and hat. And every day when she goes home, she sees a crow who seems to want to tell her something. Lila ignores the bird and even throws rocks at it, but it won't go away. Meanwhile, the great autumn festival is approaching. While the other kids prepare their costumes, Lila is sadder and lonelier than ever. At her lowest point of despair, a magical encounter with the crow opens Lila's eyes to the beauty of being different, and gives her the courage to proudly embrace her true self.
Author: Gabrielle Grimard Publisher: Annick Press ISBN: 9781554518579 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
Lila is bullied because of her dark skin, but the crows have a solution for that! Lila has just moved to a new town and can't wait to make friends at school. But on the first day, a boy points at her and shouts: "A crow! A crow! The new girl's hair is black like a crow!" The others whisper and laugh, and Lila's heart grows as heavy as a stone. The next day, Lila covers her hair. But this time, the boy points at her dark skin. When she covers her face, he mocks her dark eyes. Now every day at school, Lila hides under her turtleneck, dark glasses, and hat. And every day when she goes home, she sees a crow who seems to want to tell her something. Lila ignores the bird and even throws rocks at it, but it won't go away. Meanwhile, the great autumn festival is approaching. While the other kids prepare their costumes, Lila is sadder and lonelier than ever. At her lowest point of despair, a magical encounter with the crow opens Lila's eyes to the beauty of being different, and gives her the courage to proudly embrace her true self.
Author: Jonathan Lear Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674040023 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 200
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Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical inquiry into a people faced with the end of their way of life.
Author: Georgie Birkett Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's UK ISBN: 9781416911050 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Ahoy there, Lila Pirate! Ahoy to Lila's crew! The Jolly Jake is setting sail... There's lots of work to do!" Lila and her crew of jolly mates set sail, in search of treasure. Teddy is up in the crow's nest, keeping watch, but when a sudden storm hits, he falls from his perch and - shiver me timbers! - sinks beneath the waves. Luckily a friendly mermaid rescues him just in the nick of time... and everyone gathers to celebrate his return with a pirate party. A feisty pirate heroine, a beautiful mermaid, a brave crew and big adventure - this delightful book has all the ingredients to entertain and delight young children, over and over again!
Author: W. T. Lhamon Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674010628 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 492
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Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered—and forever transformed—American popular culture. Jump Jim Crow brings together for the first time the plays and songs performed in this guise and reveals how these texts code the complex use and abuse of blackness that has characterized American culture ever since Jim Crow’s first appearance. Along with the prompt scripts of nine plays performed by Rice—never before published as their original audiences saw them—W. T. Lhamon, Jr., provides a reconstruction of their performance history and a provocative analysis of their contemporary meaning. His reading shows us how these plays built a public blackness, but also how they engaged a disaffected white audience, who found in Jim Crow’s sass and wit and madcap dancing an expression of rebellion and resistance against the oppression and confinement suffered by ordinary people of all colors in antebellum America and early Victorian England. Upstaging conventional stories and forms, giving direction and expression to the unruly attitudes of a burgeoning underclass, the plays in this anthology enact a vital force still felt in great fictions, movies, and musics of the Atlantic and in the jumping, speedy styles that join all these forms.
Author: Lila Bowen Publisher: Orbit ISBN: 031626430X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 352
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"Wake of Vultures will kick your a** up one page and down the other." -- io9 Nettie Lonesome dreams of a greater life than toiling as a slave in the sandy desert. But when a stranger attacks her, Nettie wins more than the fight. Now she's got friends, a good horse, and a better gun. But if she can't kill the thing haunting her nightmares and stealing children across the prairie, she'll lose it all -- and never find out what happened to her real family. Wake of Vultures is the first novel of the Shadow series featuring the fearless Nettie Lonesome. The Shadow seriesWake of VulturesConspiracy of Ravens
Author: Leon F. Litwack Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674031524 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 214
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This title traces continuing racial inequality and the ongoing fight for freedom for African American's in America. It tells how despite two major efforts to reconstruct race relations, injustices remain.
Author: Qi Zhi Publisher: Cardinal Media ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Every year the swallows return to Lila's village. And every year Lila follows them on the ground, wondering what it would be like to join them in the sky. Imagine with Lila how beautiful a bird's-eye view can be!
Author: Naomi Howarth Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books ISBN: 9781847806154 Category : Languages : en Pages : 32
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In the dark depths of winter, snow is falling and the animals are freezing and famished. Brave Crow sets out on a dangerous journey to find the Sun, and beg for warmth. Will Crow succeed, and what will happen to his colourful rainbow feathers? Inspired by a Lenape Native American myth, this beautiful debut picture book shows how courage and kindness are what really matter.
Author: Marilynne Robinson Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 0374709084 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 256
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award National Book Award Finalist A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the life that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and brought up by her in a hardscrabble childhood. Together they crafted a life on the run, living hand to mouth with nothing but their sisterly bond and a ragged blade to protect them. Despite bouts of petty violence and moments of desperation, their shared life was laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves. Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead and Home, a National Book Award finalist, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence that is destined to become an American classic.
Author: Gabrielle Grimard
Author: Gabrielle Grimard
Author: Lila Quintero Weaver
Author: Jonathan Lear
Author: Georgie Birkett
Author: W. T. Lhamon
Author: Lila Bowen
Author: Leon F. Litwack
Author: Qi Zhi
Author: Naomi Howarth
Author: Marilynne Robinson