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Mandie book volume 6
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A collection of tales featuring Mandie, an orphan, and her friends as they solve mysteries together in turn-of-the-century North Carolina.
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"Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an influential African American civil rights and human rights activist. For five decades she worked behind the scenes with people in vulnerable communities to catalyze social justice leadership. Her steadfast belief in the power of ordinary people to create change continues to inspire social justice activists around the world. This book describes a case study that translates Ella Baker's community engagement philosophy...
1529) Atrapa la luna
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Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.
"Mientras su madre, la reina del aeróbic Kiki Sparks, pasa el verano de gira por Europa, a Colie, de quince años, le toca quedarse con su tía Mira en un aburrido pueblecito de Carolina del Norte. Está convencida de que va a ser el peor verano...
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"It's union time, people! That was the rallying cry of workers at the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina. Since the plant opened in 1993, meatpacking workers endured dangerous working conditions, intimidation, and low pay. Hand in hand with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, through two botched elections and a 16-year struggle, meatpacking workers achieved the greatest union victory of the 21st...
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"Imprisoned since age nineteen, Alim Braxton has spent more than a quarter century on North Carolina's death row. During that time, he converted to Islam and dedicated his life to redemption. Braxton, a rapper since the age of thirteen, uses his rhymes asa form of therapy and to advocate for prison reform, particularly by calling attention to the plight of the wrongfully incarcerated. This book, a hip-hop-rich prison memoir, chronicles Braxton's struggles...
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"From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities--thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors, and others--played vital roles in their communities. Yet only a very few black craftspeople have gained popular and scholarly attention. Catherine W. Bishir remedies this oversight by offering an in-depth portrayal of urban African...
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In 1968 Jay Fox is a young marine attack pilot in Vietnam and Ashley Beth Justice is a college freshman in North Carolina when they meet each other by chance, through letters. Ashley Beth, naive and totally separated from the Vietnam War, begins her letter-writing as a way to personally contribute to the war effort. Having recently moved away from her small hometown, she's beginning to see the world from a new perspective. Jay, in the midst of bombing...
1538) Serafina y la capa negra
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In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore Estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
"Serafina nunca ha tenido motivos para desobedecer a su padre y aventurarse más allá de los confines de la mansión donde se esconden. Hay much que explorar en sus sombrios pasillos, aunque tiene que tener cuidado de que sus habitantes no la vean. Pero...
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