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Summary: When Dede sees a notice offering land for black people in Kansas, her family decides to quit sharecropping and become homesteading pioneers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAFLyon, Lea
Summary: Ready to Fly is the true story of Sylvia Townsend, an African American girl who falls in love with ballet after seeing Swan Lake on TV. Although there aren't many ballet schools that will accept a girl like Sylvia in the 1950s, her local bookmobile provides another possibility. A librarian helps Sylvia find a book about ballet and the determined seven-year-old, with the help of her new books,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020