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Ackamarackus: Julius Lester's Sumptuously Silly Fantastically Funny Fables
by Lester, Julius
Synopsis: A bee who falls head-over-heels in love with a bluebird? An eagle who is afraid of heights? An alligator in search of cooler waters in Vermont? A collection of six original fables with morals both silly and serious.
Copyright Date: 2001
The Blues Singers: Ten Who Rocked The World
by Lester, Julius
Synopsis: The blues. It's that low-down feeling that makes you ache from your soul to the soles of your shoes.
Copyright Date: 2001
Day Of Tears
by Lester, Julius
Synopsis: On March 2 and 3, 1859, the largest auction of slaves in American history took place in Savannah, Georgia. More than 400 slaves were sold. On the first day of the auction, the skies darkened and torrential rain began falling.
Copyright Date: 2005
From Slave Ship To Freedom Road
by Lester, Julius
Synopsis: "From Slave Ship to Freedom Road" presents the story of slavery from its beginnings on the infamous ships of the Middle Passage to the enslaved Africans' and their descendants.
Copyright Date: 1998
The Knee-High Man And Other Tales
by Lester, Julius
Synopsis: Tales of why dogs chase cats, why the little man wants to be big.
Copyright Date: 1972
The Last Tales Of Uncle Remus
by Lester, Julius
Synopsis: With his boisterous friends and rowdy enemies, Brer Rabbit is on the road to adventure. He gets a job and figures out how to get paid--twice a day!
Copyright Date: 1994
The Long Journey Home
by Lester, Julius
Synopsis: Meet Rambler, a runaway slave roaming the countryside with a guitar, who knows the only way to stay free is to keep moving. Louis is another runaway, fleeing the plantation where he was raised, because he is about to be sold.
Copyright Date: 1972
Sam And The Tigers: A New Telling Of Little Black Sambo
by Lester, Julius
Synopsis: Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman is re-created in a black southern storytelling voice in which the storyteller is involved--a voice readers may recognize from his retellings of The Tales of Uncle Remus, among others.
Copyright Date: 1996
To Be A Slave
by Lester, Julius
Synopsis: A compilation of reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their lives, from those leaving Africa through the Civil War into the 20th century. Newbery Honor book.
Copyright Date: 1998