Sandra Belton

• Sep-1994
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• Feb-1998
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A black community gathers to share stories in this lyrical, multi-generational picture book from Sandra Belton and Coretta Scott King Award–winning illustrator Floyd Cooper.Miss Ida’s porch is a place where adults recall their past and wh...

• Jun-1998
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Growing up in the segregated south of the 1950s, ten-year-olds Ernestine and Amanda, the former an overweight girl, the latter a daughter of a privileged family, struggle with their mutual dislike of one another. Reprint....

• Apr-2003
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This remarkable picture book tells the story of Josephine Carroll Smith (Miss Josie) and a young artist who, like many in real life, became one of her almost-sons. It's a story that starts with a train trip to a faraway city; it's a story about ta...

• Jan-2004
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Sea grass basket . . .

Sweetgrass basket . . .

Beauty, Her Basket.

"I stick my nose inside the basket as far as it can go. I want to smell its secrets."

Sandra Belton and Cozbi A. Cabrera invite you...

• May-2006
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“Belton does an admirable job of letting Leah describe her despair and the alienation she feels from her parents, especially her mother, whose own grief makes her seem insensitive to Leah… Readers who have experienced the complex range of emotion...

• Feb-2008
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Living in his rundown neighborhood, it's hard for him to imagine the way it must have been during Mr. Odell's younger years when people like Count Basie and Duke Ellington strolled the streets, but with the help of his friend and the planting of some...

• Nov-2013
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Ernestine is too fat and acts like she can play the piano better than anyone - at least that's what Amanda thinks. Amanda is stuck-up and has a big mouth - Ernestine knows that's true. And to top it all off, Ernestine has stolen Amanda's best friend....

• Nov-2013
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Both Ernestine and Amanda get an unexpected shock when they enter eighth grade at Du Bois. Their best friends, Alicia and Clovis, have decided to test the "waters of integration" by attending the formerly all-white Central Elementary. Ernestine focus...

• Nov-2013
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Sixth grade looks like a drag for Ernestine until Wilhelmina, a tall, smart, super cool newcomer, gets her to enter a school speech contest. Amanda loves sixth grade, especially her secret club for the cutest girls in her class - and that definitely ...

• Nov-2013
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In seventh grade, Amanda has decided she's going to become a world-famous dancer - she's already one of the best students at Miss Davis's new dance studio on Monroe Street. Ernestine has no interest in taking ballet lessons - especially with all thos...

• Nov-2013
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Amanda loves having a first-day-of-summer birthday party. She can invite anyone she wants - and that doesn't mean fatso Ernestine Harris. Ernestine hates having school start the week after her birthday. But it's great having a real Harris family part...

• Apr-2015
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“McKendree ain’t a who. It’s a place.” So begins this story about a group of teens who, for a variety of reasons, end up spending their summer at a lonely home for the elderly in the hills of West Virginia. “… As told by fourteen-year-old...