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Virginia Hamilton

Speeches, Essays, and Conversations

By: Virginia Hamilton,Arnold Adoff,Kacy Cook

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Virginia Hamilton

Speeches, Essays, and Conversations

By: Virginia Hamilton,Arnold Adoff,Kacy Cook

Twenty-six works by the distinguished children's book author illuminate the creative energy behind her artistry while speaking to a new generation of readers, introducing them to her literary vision and stunning body of writing which include Newbery Medal and National Book Award winners.

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Blue Sky Press (AZ)

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0439271932

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9780439271936

Liberation Literature

Collected Writings of Virginia Hamilton

By: Virginia Hamilton

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Liberation Literature

Collected Writings of Virginia Hamilton

By: Virginia Hamilton

A monumental collection by one of America's greatest authors of children's literature — and the launch of a new imprint, ReLIT, that republishes lost classics for a modern readership! Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002) was not only one of the most magnificent writers who ever lived — winning honors such as the Newbery Medal, Newbery Honor, National Book Award, and the Coretta Scott King Award for classics like The House of Dies Drear, The People Could Fly, M. C. Higgins the Great, and Her Stories — she was one of the greatest thinkers we ever had on children's literature. Born to a family of storytellers, she wove into her books and thoughts a deep concern with memory, tradition, and generational legacy, especially as they helped define the lives of African Americans from the days of slavery onward. Hamilton described her work as ''liberation literature.'' This landmark book — since fallen out of print and now lovingly restored and repackaged in this gorgeous edition — brings together her essays, speeches, and interviews into one thought-provoking, incisive, inspiring whole. Presented in a high quality flexibound binding, Liberation Literature also features a foreword by Laura Pegram, founder of Kweli; an introduction by Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, the "mother of" multicultural children's literature; and a full-color frontispiece portrait of Virginia Hamilton, illustrated by Caldecott Medalists Leo & Diane Dillon. It is a must-have for anyone interested in writing, the history of African American representation, children's literature, and literature overall.

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420

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Chronicle Books

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1646144732

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9781646144730

In the Beginning

Creation Stories from Around the World

By: Virginia Hamilton

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In the Beginning

Creation Stories from Around the World

By: Virginia Hamilton

An illustrated collection of twenty-five myths from various parts of the world explaining the creation of the world.

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182

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0152387420

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9780152387426

Zeely

By: Virginia Hamilton

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Zeely

By: Virginia Hamilton

Geeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who closely resembles the magazine photograph of a Watutsi queen.

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136

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Simon and Schuster

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0027424707

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9780027424706

The House of Dies Drear

By: Virginia Hamilton

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The House of Dies Drear

By: Virginia Hamilton

Edgar Award Winner: A teenager and his family must uncover the haunting historical legacy of their Civil War–era house. Shortly after moving into an old, spooky home, thirteen-year-old Thomas Small and his family start hearing strange noises. The house has a past, and when Thomas discovers a hidden passageway that may have been part of the Underground Railroad, the family realizes the house has a history as well. To find out all there is to know about the House of Dies Drear, Thomas must explore secret rooms—and the secrets of lives lived centuries before, lives that tell the story of America’s troubled early years.

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166

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Open Road Media

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1453213767

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9781453213766

Her Stories

African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales

By: Virginia Hamilton

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Her Stories

African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales

By: Virginia Hamilton

Nineteen stories focus on the magical lore and wondrous imaginings of African American women.

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140

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Scholastic Inc.

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0590473700

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9780590473705

Bluish

By: Virginia Hamilton

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Bluish

By: Virginia Hamilton

All of the kids at school stay away from “Bluish,” but when Dreenie and Tuli learn to see beyond her differences, they discover a true friend Ten-year-old Natalie is different from the other kids at her New York City magnet school: She is often absent, wears a knit cap, and uses a wheelchair. Her classmates have nicknamed her “Bluish” because her pale skin is tinted blue from chemotherapy. Dreenie is fascinated by and a bit frightened of Bluish—she watches her from afar and writes about her in her journal. As the school year progresses, Dreenie and her friend Tuli learn to see beyond Bluish’s differences and discover a fiercely independent, spirited girl who isn’t so different from them after all. But it’s not easy being friends with someone who’s sick, and Dreenie doesn’t always know how to act. Hamilton delivers a lesson of compassion and demonstrates the power of friendship to overcome even the most trying of situations.

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107

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Open Road Media

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1453246711

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9781453246719

Plain City

By: Virginia Hamilton

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Plain City

By: Virginia Hamilton

A bittersweet story of a 12-year-old girl's search for the truth about her own past and her missing father.

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212

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Scholastic Inc.

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0590473654

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9780590473651

Time Pieces

The Book of Times

By: Virginia Hamilton

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Time Pieces

The Book of Times

By: Virginia Hamilton

Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton presents a novella that brings together the slave past and multi-generational present life of a young girl in Ohio. From picking berries with her cousins to surviving a tornado to being dissed by a white, bigoted teacher, the daily life of Valena is drawn here with quiet dignity. Time Pieces are places in time, including chapters moving back to Hamilton's autobiographical family story of her grandfather's escape from slavery in Virginia, when he was brought to Ohio by his mother, a native American. A strong work of fiction from a master storyteller.

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220

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Scholastic Inc.

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0590288814

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9780590288811

Second Cousins

By: Virginia Hamilton

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Second Cousins

By: Virginia Hamilton

The friendship of twelve-year-old cousins Cammy and Elodie is threatened when the family reunion includes two other cousins near their age and Elodie is tempted to drop Cammy for a new companion.

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180

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Scholastic Inc.

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0590473697

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9780590473699

Cousins

By: Virginia Hamilton

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Cousins

By: Virginia Hamilton

DIVCammy’s only trouble in life is a cousin named Patty Ann who overshadows her in every way—until suddenly, Patty Ann is no longer around/divDIV /div DIVCammy has a happy life and a great family, except for one little problem: a cousin who thinks she’s better than everyone else. It’s true that Patty Ann is beautiful, talented, and bright, but to Cammy she’s also vain, conceited, and mean-spirited. Sometimes Cammy wishes that Patty Ann would disappear, just vanish in a puff of smoke. But when the unthinkable happens and Patty Ann is lost forever, Cammy struggles to atone for her bad feelings toward someone so close./div

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1453213821

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9781453213827

A Little Love

By: Virginia Hamilton

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A Little Love

By: Virginia Hamilton

Though she has been raised lovingly by her grandparents, a black teenager goes in search of her father.

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208

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0575036516

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9780575036512

Jaguarundi

By: Virginia Hamilton

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Jaguarundi

By: Virginia Hamilton

Although the other animals also feel threatened by the encroachment of humans, only Rundi and Coati journey north in search of a safer place to live.

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Blue Sky Press (AZ)

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0590473670

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9780590473675

Many Thousand Gone

African Americans from Slavery to Freedom

By: Virginia Hamilton

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Many Thousand Gone

African Americans from Slavery to Freedom

By: Virginia Hamilton

Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.

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164

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0590738739

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9780590738736

Her Stories

African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales

By: Virginia Hamilton

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Her Stories

African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales

By: Virginia Hamilton

In the tradition of Hamilton's The People Could Fly and In the Beginning, a dramatic new collection of 25 compelling tales from the female African American storytelling tradition. Each story focuses on the role of women--both real and fantastic--and their particular strengths, joys and sorrows. Full-color illustrations.

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109

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0590617664

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9780590617666

Undone

By: Virginia Henley

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Undone

By: Virginia Henley

Though celebrated in Irish society for her extraordinary beauty, Elizabeth Gunning is just playing a part. The supposed daughter of Viscount Mayo is in fact a common woman of uncommon appearance. And if her domineering mother has her say, Elizabeth is going to keep up the charade and take London society by storm. With her golden hair and violet eyes, Elizabeth has men falling at her feet, but only one has captured her heart: John Campbell, the rakishly handsome Duke of Argyll. If she surrenders to his smoldering gaze and heated touch, she’ll be playing with fire. Because only John knows her deepest secret, and knows just how to unleash the passion within her.

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417

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Penguin

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1101098686

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9781101098684

Hospital with a Heart

Women Doctors and the Paradox of Separatism at the New England Hospital, 1862-1969

By: Virginia Drachman

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Hospital with a Heart

Women Doctors and the Paradox of Separatism at the New England Hospital, 1862-1969

By: Virginia Drachman

Hospital with a Heart analyzes the dilemma that confronted nineteenth- and twentieth-century women doctors as they sought to preserve their all-women's institutions and to succeed in the male-dominated medical profession. It is at once women's history, medical history, institutional history, and a study of the impact of professionalization on women. This book tells the story of one of the most important all-women's hospitals in America, the New England Hospital for Women and Children. For more than a century it provided women doctors with valuable clinical experience and professional training, and offered women patients medical care from doctors of their own sex. In an engrossing chronological narrative, Virginia Drachman shows how the fates of the hospital and of the women doctors who worked there were inextricably intertwined. From its founding, the hospital provided women doctors with professional opportunities apart from men; eventually all-male medical institutions admitted women. The result, Drachman demonstrates, was a paradox: Separatism originally laid the path to equality for women in medicine, but integration gradually afforded a competing route to professional equality, challenging the separatist traditions of women doctors. By the turn of the century, the New England Hospital confronted its most formidable challenge: the opportunities of integration. Drachman skillfully illuminates and balances two major themes in her interesting account: the history of women's struggle to gain acceptance in the medical profession, and the question that to this day provokes debate-whether separation from men or integration into male-dominated institutions is the best means of improving women's status in the professions and in society at large.

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272

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Cornell University Press

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1501741799

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9781501741791

Sims Index to Land Grants in West Virginia

By: West Virginia. Auditor's Office

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Sims Index to Land Grants in West Virginia

By: West Virginia. Auditor's Office

The land grants listed herein were made by Lord Fairfax prior to the creation of the Virginia Land Office; by the Commonwealth of Virginia, of lands now embracing the State of West Virginia; and, by the State of West Virginia, under its first Constitution."--Page [1].

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892

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806317140

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9780806317144

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