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African Americans Fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction Free African Americans Fiction Free African Americans Juvenile fiction Friendship Fiction Nature Fiction New Orleans (La.) History 19th century Fiction Picture books Robins Fiction United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 FictionTripp, Valerie
Summary: The WellieWishers, four girls who have backyard adventures after stepping into their colorful garden boots, make friends with a robin. Includes related activities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2016
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE TRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED TRIBuckey, Sarah Masters
Summary: Marie-Grace Gardner, a doctor's daughter who has just returned to her native New Orleans in 1853, makes friends with Cécile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, and is persuaded to change places with her at separate Mardi Gras balls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BUCBuckey, Sarah Masters
Summary: When Marie-Grace discovers a baby outside her father's office and a slave catcher claims the boy, she helps place him at a white orphanage where she becomes a volunteer, as her friendship with Cécile grows and she hears rumors of yellow fever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BUCPorter, Connie Rose
Summary: After their escape from North Carolina to Philadelphia in the summer of 1864, Addy and her mother begin their new life as free people as her mother gets a paying job and Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1993
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PORPorter, Connie Rose
Summary: Addy and Harriet feud over everything, including fund-raising plans to help the families of freed slaves, but tragedy finally forces them to stop fighting and work together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company 1994