Jamaica and Brianna

Jamaica and Brianna
Author: Juanita Havill
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1993
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780395779392

Jamaica hates wearing hand-me-down boots when her friend Brianna has pink fuzzy ones.

Jamaica's Find

Jamaica's Find
Author: Juanita Havill
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1986
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780395393765

A little girl finds a stuffed dog in the park and decides to take it home.

Jamaica Tag-Along

Jamaica Tag-Along
Author: Juanita Havill
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2015-02-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547505256

Jamaica doesn't want a younger child to play with her, until she remembers how she felt when her older brother excluded her from his games.

Claudia & Moth

Claudia & Moth
Author: Jennifer Hansen Rolli
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0425288366

A small girl with a passion for nature turns to her new passion for art as the seasons turn colder. Claudia loves butterflies. Blue ones. Yellow ones. Purple ones with dots. And since she can't take them home, she paints them in all their beautiful colors. But when winter comes, there are no more butterflies to paint...until she finds a little moth. Suddenly, Claudia sees winter in a whole new light.

Beacon to Freedom

Beacon to Freedom
Author: Jenna Glatzer
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2017-12-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1543538215

Reverend John Rankin is credited with providing safety through the Underground Railroad to more than 2,000 people as they tried to escape slavery. Not as well-known as Harriet Tubman's story to most readers, Beacon to Freedom recounts in an illlustrated, nonfiction narrative how Rankin guided runaways across the wide Ohio River with a light in his window, giving them hope in a time of great fear and danger.

Brianna, Jamaica, and the Dance of Spring

Brianna, Jamaica, and the Dance of Spring
Author: Juanita Havill
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Dance
ISBN: 9780547237688

When her sister Nikki gets sick, Brianna hopes to play her part as the butterfly queen in the Dance of Spring, but then another disaster strikes.

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
Author: Verna Aardema
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 34
Release: 1975-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0803760892

"In this Caldecott Medal winner, Mosquito tells a story that causes a jungle disaster. "Elegance has become the Dillons' hallmark. . . . Matching the art is Aardema's uniquely onomatopoeic text . . . An impressive showpiece." -Booklist, starred review. Winner of Caldecott Medal in 1976 and the Brooklyn Art Books for Children Award in 1977.

America's Champion Swimmer

America's Champion Swimmer
Author: David A. Adler
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780152052515

One woman's gritty determination to succeed

Tell My Horse

Tell My Horse
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0061847399

“Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information.” —New York Times Book Review Based on Zora Neale Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of the ceremonies, customs, and superstitions of voodoo.

Elizabeti's School

Elizabeti's School
Author: Stephanie A. Bodeen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Illustrated by Christy Hale. It is the first day of school and Elizabeti can hardly wait, sure that school is a very special place. Shortly after arriving at school, Elizabeti begins to miss her family, but she is soon making friends and learning her lessons. Best of all, she can share her experiences with her family and apply what she has learned that very evening. In this contemporary Tanzanian story, readers are sure to recognise the innocent emotions of a young girl as she copes with her first day of school and discovers the joy of learning. Ages 4-8.