Author: Enoch Pratt Free LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Finding List of the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City
Author: Enoch Pratt Free LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Finding List of the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City, Central Library
Author: Enoch Pratt Free LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Finding List of the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City
Author: Enoch Pratt Free LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Becoming Beatriz
Author: Tami CharlesPublisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1580897789
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
"A compelling read about the quest for fame!" —Debbie Allen, star of Fame "Redemption is a heartbeat away." —Guadalupe Garcia McCall, author of the Pura Belpre Award winner Under the Mesquite Beatriz dreams of a life spent dancing--until tragedy on the day of her quinceañera changes everything. Up until her fifteenth birthday, the most important thing in the world to Beatriz Mendez was her dream of becoming a professional dancer and getting herself and her family far from the gang life that defined their days--that and meeting her dance idol Debbie Allen on the set of her favorite TV show, Fame. But after the latest battle in a constant turf war leaves her brother, Junito, dead and her mother grieving, Beatriz has a new set of priorities. How is she supposed to feel the rhythm when her brother's gang needs running, when her mami can't brush her own teeth, and when the last thing she can remember of her old self is dancing with her brother, followed by running and gunshots? When the class brainiac reminds Beatriz of her love of the dance floor, her banished dreams sneak back in. Now the only question is: will the gang let her go? Set in New Jersey in 1984, Beatriz's story is a timeless one of a teenager's navigation of romance, her brother's choices, and her own family's difficult past. A companion novel to the much-lauded Like Vanessa.
The Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City
Author: Enoch Pratt Free LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Enoch Pratt Free Library
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Passive Programming Playbook
Author: Paula WilleyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440870578
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book offers 101 passive programming ideas that are extendable, adaptable, customizable, and above all, stealable-so your passive programming never runs dry. Passive programming is a cheap, quick, fun way to make all library customers feel like part of the community. It can support reading initiatives, foster family engagement, encourage visit frequency, and coax interaction out of library lurkers-while barely making a dent in your programming budget. Passive programming can be targeted at children, teens, adults, or seniors; used to augment existing programs; and executed in places where staff-led programming can't reach. It can be light-footed, spontaneous, and easily deployed to reflect and respond to current news, media, library events, and even the weather. But even passive programming pros run out of ideas sometimes, and when that happens, they want a fresh, funny source of inspiration.
The Enoch Pratt Free Library
Author: Lewis Henry SteinerCatalog Department Manual, the Enoch Pratt Free Library
Author: Enoch Pratt Free Library. Catalog DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cataloging
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement
Author: Jessie Morgan-OwensPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393609251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The riveting, little-known story of Mary Mildred Williams—a slave girl who looked “white”—whose photograph transformed the abolitionist movement. When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family’s freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of American slavery. Famous abolitionists Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry David Thoreau, and John Albion Andrew would help Mary and her family in freedom, but Senator Charles Sumner saw a monumental political opportunity. Due to generations of sexual violence, Mary’s skin was so light that she “passed” as white, and this fact would make her the key to his white audience’s sympathy. During his sold-out abolitionist lecture series, Sumner paraded Mary in front of rapt audiences as evidence that slavery was not bounded by race. Weaving together long-overlooked primary sources and arresting images, including the daguerreotype that turned Mary into the poster child of a movement, Jessie Morgan-Owens investigates tangled generations of sexual enslavement and the fraught politics that led Mary to Sumner. She follows Mary’s story through the lives of her determined mother and grandmother to her own adulthood, parallel to the story of the antislavery movement and the eventual signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Girl in Black and White restores Mary to her rightful place in history and uncovers a dramatic narrative of travels along the Underground Railroad, relationships tested by oppression, and the struggles of life after emancipation. The result is an exposé of the thorny racial politics of the abolitionist movement and the pervasive colorism that dictated where white sympathy lay—one that sheds light on a shameful legacy that still affects us profoundly today.
The Literature of Philanthropy
Author: Frances Abigail GoodalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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