Holiday offerings focus on the classics and heritage: new selections make perfect stocking stuffers

Black Issues Book Review, Nov-Dec, 2004 by Suzanne Rust

OTHER NOTEWORTHY TITLES

The Black Regiment of the American Revolution by Linda Crotta Brennan Illustrated by Cheryl Kirk Noll Moon Mountain Publishing, July 2004 $16.95, ISBN 1-931-65906-0 A story of African American heroes of the American Revolution.

Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis Wandy Lamb Books/Random House September 2004 $15.95, ISBN 0-385-32307-7

A young man's plan to escape the slums of Flint, Michigan, is told by master storyteller Christopher Paul Curtis (Bud, Not Buddy and The Watson's Go to Birmingham).

Where's Jamela? Story and pictures by Niki Daly Farrar, Straus & Giroux, August 2004 $16, ISBN 0-374-38324-3 A little girl faces the difficulties of moving day.

Speak to Me (And I Will Listen Between the Lines) by Karen English Pictures by Amy June Bates Farrar, Straus & Giroux, August 2004 $16, ISBN 0-374-37156-3

Free-verse poems represent a day in the life of six urban public school students.

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COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group

 

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