In One Crazy Summer, three young girls travel by plane from New York City to Oakland, California to visit their mother for a month.
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Scott O’Dell Tribute: For the Author of Island of the Blue Dolphins
A Scott O’Dell tribute honoring the author of Island of the Blue Dolphins, Sing Down the Moon, The Black Pearl, and many other outstanding novels for children.
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I, Juan de Pareja, by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino – Linda Book Lady’s Review :: Spoiler Free
Spanish painter, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez, had a black slave, Juan de Pareja. This fictionalized account of the slave’s life follows him from birth into adulthood.
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