Author : Marybeth Lorbiecki
Publisher : Dial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 1998
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780803720381
Seven-year-old Anna has her first encounter with racism in the 1960s when an African American nun comes to teach at her parochial school.
Author : Marybeth Lorbiecki
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,28 MB
Release : 2000-11-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0140565345
"An African American nun challenges the beliefs of her second-grade students in this thought-provoking picture book set in the 1960s."--Publishers Weekly Sister Anne’s hands are brown, and Anna’s hands are white. It’s the early 1960s, and Anna has never seen a person with dark skin before. At first she is afraid of her new second-grade teacher. But Anna quickly finds that there’s no reason to be scared. Sister Anne is wonderful. She likes jokes and she makes math and reading fun. But then someone sails a paper airplane to her, with a cruel message written on its wings. Sister Anne’s wise way of turning a painful incident into a powerful learning experience has a profound impact on Anna and her classmates. This moving, timeless tale is perfectly illustrated with luminous, glowing paintings. “With humor and understanding, Lorbiecki writes about a young girl’s coming to terms with racial differences and about the pain that ignorance can cause.”—The Horn Book
Author : Marybeth Lorbiecki
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2000-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780613337281
Seven-year-old Anna has her first encounter with racism in the 1960s when an African American nun comes to teach at her parochial school
Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250005027
Four women seeking the promise of salvation and prosperity in a new land.
Author : Love
Publisher :
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 1857
Category :
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Author : Marian James
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 1856
Category : English fiction
ISBN :
Author : Anne O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1488797358
Elizabeth of Lancaster Sister. Wife. Traitor. One betrayal is all it takes to change history... June, 1380: Elizabeth Plantagenet – seventeen years old, spoilt, headstrong, fun-loving and intelligent — is about to be married. The Earl of Pembroke is an advantageous choice for all concerned, except Elizabeth, as the Earl is only eight years old. June, 1386: Scandalously pregnant by Sir John Holland, Duke of Exeter, whilst still married to the Earl, Elizabeth is hastily married again. As half-brother to King Richard II, Sir John is a man known to all for both his charm and self-interested scheming. Soon Elizabeth is drawn into the heart of a dangerous rebellion with her brother, King Henry IV, on one side, and her husband on the other. As tensions become a matter of life or death, Elizabeth is presented with an impossible choice of where to give her loyalty... “One of the best writers around... she outdoes even Philippa Gregory.” — The Sun “Extremely compelling historical fiction.” — Cosmopolitan “...packed with powerful emotions and tumultuous unfolding of an affair that changed the course of royal history, this is a novel in which to enjoy the past in all it rich colour and dramatic detail...” — Lancashire Evening Post “Anne O'Brien has joined the exclusive club of excellent historical novelists.” — Sunday Express
Author : Marian James
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 32,12 MB
Release : 1868
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Marybeth Lorbiecki
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781585362899
When legendary logger Paul Bunyan falls in love with Lucette Diana Kensack, he will do whatever it takes to win her heart, including trying to restore the Minnesota environment to its previous condition as part of Lucette's "love test."
Author : Carol A. Ortlip
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345443427
As the oldest of five sisters, Carol Ortlip identified herself as the "translator, " the one responsible for making sense of the outside world for her four younger sisters. In this moving, beautifully written memoir, she seeks to make sense of her own world, of which her sisters are a deeply important part. As children, each sister seemed essentially placed, becoming the one the rest had been waiting for: Carol (translator and guide), Kate (nurturer and second in command), Shari (prophet and poet), Danielle (compliant mediator), and Michele (youngest and the family conscience). Their love for one another permeated their childhood and sustained them during their mother's depression, their stepfather's emotional abuse, the challenges of growing up, and the profound tragedies that threatened to break even the strongest heart. Throughout this touching, ultimately uplifting memoir, the "hand" serves as a poignant metaphor for how Ortlip is both intrinsically connected to and distinct from the people she loves most.
