Cultural Region/African
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The Ugly Five
$18.99 Add to cartA charming new picture book from the bestselling creators of The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom
Meet Wildebeest, Warthog, Spotted Hyena, Lappet-Faced Vulture, and Marabou Stork. On the African savanna… [more below]
- Author: Donaldson, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 1338249533
- Language: English
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Adamalui: A Survivor’s Journey from Civil Wars in Africa to Life in America
$29.99 Add to cartAwarded author and survivor of the Sierra Leonean and Liberian civil wars, Joseph Kaifala recounts his journey to America with literary finesse and sincere recollection.
- Author: Kaifala, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1681626845
- Language: English
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Mummies and Pyramids: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #3: Mummies in the Morning
$7.99 Add to cartThe #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better. Track the … [more below]
- Series: Magic Tree House (R) Fact Tracker #3
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 27 2001
- ISBN10: 0375802983
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Movie Tie-In Edition): Young Readers Edition
$9.99 Add to cartNow a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village.
W- Author: Kamkwamba, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1984816128
- Language: English
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Grandpa Cacao: A Tale of Chocolate, from Farm to Family
$18.99 Read moreThis beautifully illustrated story connects past and present as a girl bakes a chocolate cake with her father and learns about her grandfather harvesting cacao beans in West Africa.
Chocolate is the p- Author: Zunon, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1681196409
- Language: English
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African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent
$34.95 Add to cartThe traditional, handcrafted textiles of Africa are sumptuous, intricate, and steeped in cultural significance. Region by region, African Textiles covers, as no other volume has, the handmade textiles… [more below]
- Author: Gillow, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0500292213
- Language: English
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Who Built the Stable?: A Nativity Poem
$19.99 Add to cartWho built the stable where Jesus lay? Multiple Coretta Scott King Award-winner Ashley Bryan has a very good idea in this beautiful and moving new layer to the nativity story.
The boy looked in the inf- Author: Bryan, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 1442409347
- Language: English
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I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon
$19.99 Read moreDiscover the true story of how environmentalist Farmer Tantoh is transforming the landscape in his home country of Cameroon.
When Tantoh Nforba was a child, his fellow students mocked him for his i- Author: Paul, Baptiste
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1512449148
- Language: English
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Gizo-Gizo!: A Tale from the Zongo Lagoon
$15.95 Read moreWinner of the 2017 Children’s Africana Book Award for Best Book, Young Readers
Gizo-Gizo the spider is a lazy, selfish fellow. So when he starts a gold mine that pollutes the Zongo Lagoon and makes
- Author: Williamson, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 159298665X
- Language: English
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The Groundings with My Brothers
$21.95 Read more“I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together.” – Walter Rodney
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney e- Author: Rodney, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1788731158
- Language: English
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Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
$12.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary memoir of an orphan who danced her way from war-torn Sierra Leone to ballet stardom, most recently appearing in Beyonce’s Lemonade and as a principal in a major American dance compan… [more below]
- Author: Deprince, Michaela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0385755147
- Language: English
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My Two Blankets
$17.99 Add to cartCartwheel moves to a new country with her auntie, and everything is strange: the animals, the plants–even the wind. An old blanket gives Cartwheel comfort when she’s sad–and a new blanket just might… [more below]
- Author: Kobald, Irena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0544432282
- Language: English
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Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War
$17.99 Read moreMichel Chikwanine was five years old when he was abducted from his school-yard soccer game in the Democratic Republic of Congo and forced to become a soldier for a brutal rebel militia. Against the od… [more below]
- Series: CitizenKid
- Author: Chikwanine, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1771381264
- Language: English
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Wild Wings
$8.99 Add to cartThis “vividly imagined and well-written novel” (Booklist, starred review) tells a gripping story about a boy from Scotland and a girl from West Africa who join together to save a migrating Osprey–and… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Gill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 1442414464
- Language: English
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Small Mercies
$15.95 Add to cartA 2022 Skipping Stones Honor Awardee
Mercy lives in mode
Named a Best Middle-Grade Book of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews
2021 Outstanding International Books List, United States Board on Books for Young People- Author: Krone, Bridget
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1946395161
- Language: English
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Pinduli
$9.99 Add to cart“Cannon fans will lap it up.” —Kirkus Reviews Pinduli’s mama has always told her that she’s the most beautiful hyena ever. But Dog, Lion, and Zebra don’t think so. Why else would they make her feel s… [more below]
- Author: Cannon, Janell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1328740501
- Language: English
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Favorite African Folktales
$13.95 Add to cartMandela, a Nobel Laureate for Peace, has selected these thirty-two tales with the specific hope that Africa’s oldest stories, as well as a few new ones, be perpetuated by future generations and be app… [more below]
- Author: Mandela, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393326241
- Language: English
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Handa’s Surprise Big Book: Read and Share
$27.99 Add to cart“In the best pantomime spirit, readers long to tell Handa what’s happening just behind her.” — The Guardian (U.K.)
Handa puts seven delicious fruits in a basket to take to her friend, Akeyo. Which fr- Series: Reading and Math Together
- Author: Browne, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0763653853
- Language: English
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The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God; Introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$36.00 Read moreHere, collected for the first time in Everyman’s Library, are the three internationally acclaimed classic novels that comprise what has come to be known as Chinua Achebe’s “African Trilogy”–with an i… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
- Author: Achebe, Chinua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0307592707
- Language: English
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David Livingstone: African Trailblazer
$11.99 Read moreWith the heart of an explorer and the passion of an evangelist, David Livingstone mapped vast, unexplored areas of Africa, sharing the gospel with whomever he encountered. His stamina, perseverance, a… [more below]
- Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
- Author: Janet, Benge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1576581535
- Language: English
