Jean Alicia Elster

Joe Joe in the City

Just Call Me Joe Joe (Sep-2001)
I'll Fly My Own Plane (Sep-2002)

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  Just Call Me Joe Joe
  

  • Sep-2001
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  Joe Joe in the City
  

  In the first volume of this four-book series, Joe Joe is mistaken for a member of a gang of kids that has ransacked a white man s store. Shaken, he takes refuge in a library book about the Negro Baseball League. Inspired by the example of ball player...

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  I'll Fly My Own Plane
  

  • Sep-2002
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  Joe Joe in the City
  

  Joe Joe Rawlings faces contemporary challenges in this series of books written around Christian themes for African-American children. This third volume introduces Joe Joe and his young readers to the Tuskegee Airmen....

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  Who's Jim Hines?
  

  • Aug-2008
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  A look at issues of race in Depression-era Detroit for young readers, aged 8 through 12....

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  I'll Do the Right Thing
  

  • Jun-2010
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  This fourth and final volume finds Joe Joe facing gang trouble at school. He has to make a difficult decision about whether to join Tyrone and his crew, the defenders, or to follow the example of Ralph Bunche, the first African American to receive th...

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  How It Happens
  

  • Sep-2021
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  Intergenerational story of three Black women and their struggle to stake their claim to the American dream. How It Happensfollows the story of author Jean Alicia Elster’s maternal grandmother, Dorothy May Jackson. Born in Tennessee in 1890, Doro...

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Award-Winning Books by Jean Alicia Elster

Who's Jim Hines?
2009 Michigan Notable Books -- Notable Book