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Summary: Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.22 LESKeats, Ezra Jack.
Summary: Describes the life of the legendary steel-driving man who was born and who died with a hammer in his hand.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1987
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.22 KEALester, Julius.
Summary: Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set 398.21 Lester 1994Meister, Cari.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MEISummary: Rich in culture and history, the pride of the African-American tradition comes alive in these award-winning stories. These stories includes Martin's Big Words, John Henry, and Seven Candles For Kwanzaa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MARWhitehead, Colson
Summary: E-journalist J. Sutter travels to West Virginia for the first John Henry Days celebration.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIHarper, Benjamin
Summary: In this graphic adaptation of the American folktale, John Henry is the strongest elf in Gem Forest, able to carve out a perfect mining tunnel with a single swing of his hammer; so when Snotsworthy the gnome invents a machine that digs tunnels without the need for paid workers, John Henry challenges the gnome to a contest on sinister Witchfinger Mountain--home to a tribe of sleeping orcs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019
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Summary: "Seventh grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm in Alabama, where he's being sent to heal from the tragedy. On his first night there, a sticky creature...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MBACecil, Mark
Summary: "A large-hearted reimagining of beloved all-American legends, this epic debut novel brings men of myth Paul Bunyan and John Henry alive like never before, teaming up for an adventure quest with deeper interrogations of race, class, and industrialization. When we first meet Paul Bunyan-legendary larger-than-life lumberjack and classic figure from American mythology-he is still just a man, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024