Coleman, Evelyn

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White socks only

  • Coleman, Evelyn
Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi.

White socks only

  • Coleman, Evelyn
2015
Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi.

Mystery of the Dark Tower

Submitted by khenkes on Tue, 03/16/2021 - 14:21

In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.

Shadows on Society Hill

an Addy mystery
  • Coleman, Evelyn
When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy, a former slave, discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she escaped from only two years earlier. Includes an educational section on Reconstruction.
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The cameo necklace

a C?cile mystery
  • Coleman, Evelyn
Eleven-year-old C?cile Rey searches through many corners of 1854 New Orleans seeking a necklace, borrowed from her Tante Tay, that disappeared as she was exiting a crowded showboat. Includes facts about the 1850s.
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Born in sin

  • Coleman, Evelyn
Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, fourteen-year-old Keisha pursues her dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer and medical doctor.

Mystery of the Dark Tower

Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 12/04/2019 - 13:54

In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.

To be a drum

  • Coleman, Evelyn
Daddy Wes tells how Africans were brought to America as slaves, but promises his children that as long as they can hear the rhythm of the earth, they will be free.

White socks only

  • Coleman, Evelyn
Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi.
Cover image of White socks only

Freedom Train

  • Coleman, Evelyn
2012
Twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason's older brother is a guard on the Freedom Train, which is carrying the Bill of Rights and other documents throughout the country in 1948, but Clyde is also learning about rights and freedom as he is saved from a beating by an African American boy, and later returns the favor when men in their Atlanta suburb decide to show the "Nigras" their place.

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