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Вирджиния Эстер Гамильтон – лучшие книги
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In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World Virginia Hamilton
ISBN: 0152387420 Год издания: 1991 Язык: Английский A thought-provoking collection of twenty-five stories that reflect the wonder and glory of the origins of the world and humankind. With commentary by the author. “A must for mythology shelves.”--Booklist -
M.C. Higgins, the Great Virginia Hamilton
ISBN: 978-1416914075 Год издания: 2010 Издательство: Aladdin Paperbacks Язык: Английский Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty-foot steel pole, towering over his home on Sarah's Mountain. Stretched before him are rolling hills and shady valleys. But behind him lie the wounds of strip mining, including a mountain of rubble that may one day fall and bury his home. M.C. dreams of escape for himself and his family. And, one day, atop his pole, he thinks he sees it -- two strangers are making their way toward Sarah's Mountain. One has the ability to make M.C.'s mother famous. And the other has the kind of freedom that M.C. has never even considered.
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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales Virginia Hamilton
ISBN: 9780679843368 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Knopf Books for Young Readers Язык: Английский In this exclusive 15th anniversary edition, Hamilton tells 24 American Black folktales that kept her ancestor's culture alive during the days of slavery. This edition comes with an audio CD with 12 of these stories narrated by noted actor James Earl Jones. Full-color illustrations. -
The House of Dies Drear Virginia Hamilton
ISBN: 978-1416914051 Год издания: 2006 Издательство: Aladdin Язык: Английский The house held secrets, Thomas knew, even before he first saw it looming gray and massive on its ledge of rock. It had a century-old legend -- two fugitive slaves had been killed by bounty hunters after leaving its passageways, and Dies Drear himself, the abolitionist who had made the house into a station on the Underground Railroad, had been murdered there. The ghosts of the three were said to walk its rooms.... -
The Planet of Junior Brown Virginia Hamilton
ISBN: 1416914102 Год издания: 2006 Язык: Английский Junior Brown, an overprotected three-hundred pound musical prodigy who's prone to having fantasies, and Buddy Clark, a loner who lives by his wits because he has no family whatsoever, have been on the hook from their eighth-grade classroom all semester.
Most of the time they have been in the school building -- in a secret cellar room behind a false wall, where Mr. Pool, the janitor, has made a model of the solar system. They have been pressing their luck for months...and then they are caught. As society -- in the form of a zealous assistant principal -- closes in on them, Junior's fantasies become more desperate, and Buddy draws on all his resources to ensure his friend's well-being. -
Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny Virginia Hamilton
ISBN: 0590288806 Год издания: 2004 Язык: Русский Book Description Virginia Hamilton draws upon her extensive knowledge of folktales in this "scare tale," in which young James Lee discovers his Uncle Big Anthony has been cursed by a Wee Winnie Witch, who rides him like a broom across the night -
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush Virginia Hamilton
ISBN: 0380651939 Год издания: 2001 Язык: Английский Why had he come to her, with his dark secrets from a long-ago past? What was the purpose of their strange, haunting journeys back into her own childhood? Was it to help Dab, her retarded older brother, wracked with mysterious pain who sometimes took more care and love than Tree had to give? Was it for her mother, Vy, who loved them the best she knew how, but wasn't home enough to ease the terrible longing?
Whatever secrets his whispered message held, Tree knew she must follow. She must follow Brother Rush through the magic mirror, and find out the truth. About all of them -
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales Вирджиния Эстер Гамильтон
ISBN: 0590473700 Год издания: 1995 Издательство: Blue Sky Press Язык: Английский In the tradition of Hamilton's The People Could Fly and In the Beginning, a dramatic new collection of 25 compelling tales from the female African American storytelling tradition. Each story focuses on the role of women--both real and fantastic--and their particular strengths, joys and sorrows. Full-color illustrations. -
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave Virginia Hamilton
ISBN: 0679839976 Год издания: 1993 Язык: Английский Now in Laurel-Leaf, Virginia Hamilton's powerful true account of the sensational trial of a fugitive slave.
The year is 1854, and Anthony Burns, a 20-year-old Virginia slave, has escaped to Boston. But according to the Fugitive Slave Act, a runaway can be captured in any free state, and Anthony is soon imprisoned. The antislavery forces in Massachusetts are outraged, but the federal government backs the Fugitive Slave Act, sparking riots in Boston and fueling the Abolitionist movement.
Written with all the novelistic skill that has won her every major award in children's literature, Virginia Hamilton's important work of nonfiction puts young readers into the mind of Burns himself. -
Justice and Her Brothers Вирджиния Эстер Гамильтон
ISBN: 0590362143 Год издания: 1998 Язык: Английский An eleven-year-old and her older twin brothers struggle to understand their supersensory powers.