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Book Cover for: Those Shoes, Maribeth Boelts

Those Shoes

Maribeth Boelts
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Happy Birthday Maribeth Boelts! Check out how engaged, excited, and happy first-graders at Blaine Elementary School (@OurSchoolRocks) were to discuss her story "Those Shoes" not long ago! #JuniorGreatBooks #collaboration https://t.co/vlN3G5IUBH

Paperback, 2009

$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Toni Morrison

Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Toni Morrison
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We treasure Toni Morrison, writer of The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, and many more—critically acclaimed and widely honored, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the #PulitzerPrize, and the #NobelPrize in Literature. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/L5GpExvbSS

Paperback, 2004

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Down the Road, Alice Schertle

Down the Road

Alice Schertle
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Featured in #JuniorGreatBooks Series K for kindergartners, "Down the Road" is written by Alice Schertle and illustrated by @iameblewis. #BlackHistoryMonth #CelebrateBlackHistory #RepresentationMatters #TeachersofInstagram #librariansofInstagram #classroomlibrary #lifelonglearners https://t.co/Q5PYOL4yML

Paperback, 2000

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Book Cover for: Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay

Bad Feminist

Roxane Gay
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Roxane Gay is the author of The New York Times bestseller Bad Feminist, as well as the short story collection Ayiti, the novel An Untamed State, the short story collection Difficult Women, and the memoir Hunger. #BlackHistoryMonth #CelebrateBlackHistory #RepresentationMatters https://t.co/ekOaMZmwoQ

Paperback, 2014

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Book Cover for: James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl
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Happy birthday Roald Dahl 🎉. This great storyteller for children was born this day in 1916. James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda . . . so many fantastic and fantastical stories. What's your favorite? #JuniorGreatBooks https://hubs.li/H0X8S0b0 https://t.co/0sOHg2buWn

Paperback, 2007

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Book Cover for: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, Zz Packer

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

Zz Packer
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Read ZZ Packer's "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere," a story from her critically acclaimed debut collection of the same name, in Her Own Accord: American Women on Identity, Culture, and Community. https://t.co/yAyqqgsFD3 #BlackHistoryMonth #CelebrateBlackHistory #RepresentationMatters https://t.co/S0xpdFnihE

Paperback, 2004

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