Muhammad Cunningham
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Language
English
Description
Tow-Kaye just learned that the love of his life is pregnant--and though he knows what the right thing to do is, he's scared to death to do it. Jeffrey hates having a mom who dresses like a teenager, but when another sexy mom moves in next door--well, that's a different kind of problem. In these and twenty-two other short stories and poems, readers plumb the inner lives of African American teenage boys.
3) The Baptism
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Language
English
Description
In addition to penning acclaimed poetry and plays, Coretta Scott King Honor recipient Shelia P. Moses wrote the novels The Legend of Buddy Bush and The Return of Buddy Bush. Humor and pathos abound in this moving tale of a wide-eyed African-American boy striving to understand his place in his family and their rural North Carolina town.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In 'Dora had a Little Lamb': Little Lamb gets lost, but Dora and Boots know where to go. In 'Call me Mr. Riddles': Boots loves riddles so much that he wants to be called Mr. Riddles and he wants to go to Tall Mountain to solve the silliest riddle in the Riddle Contest. In 'Backpack': When Dora received Backpack from her parents she receives more than just a gift. In 'Big river': Boots loses a boot in the big river. He'll need Dora and Backpack to...
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Language
English
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Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more. Exhilarating and electric, these poems capture the energy and resilience of a neighborhood and a people.