Collier, James Lincoln

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Frederick Douglass

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Explores the childhood, character, and influential events that shaped the life of this former slave who went on to become an abolitionist and advisor to Abraham Lincoln.

The great jazz artists

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Surveys the lives and music of such well-known jazz performers as Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and others.

Who is Carrie?

  • Collier, James Lincoln
2013
A young African-American girl living in New York City in the late eighteenth century observes the historic events taking place around her, and at the same time solves the mystery of her own identity.

War comes to Willy Freeman

  • Collier, James Lincoln
2013
A free thirteen-year-old African-American girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.

Who is Carrie?

  • Collier, James Lincoln
2012
A young African-American girl living in New York City in the late eighteenth century observes the historic events taking place around her, and at the same time solves the mystery of her own identity.

Jump ship to freedom

  • Collier, James Lincoln
2013
In 1787, a fourteen-year-old slave, anxious to buy freedom for himself and his mother, escapes from his dishonest master and tries to find help in cashing the soldier's notes received by his father for fighting in the Revolution.

With Every Drop of Blood

A Novel of the Civil War
  • Collier, James Lincoln
1994
"Johnny made a promise to his father, who was wounded fighting for the South. He promised to take care ofthe family and not run off to fight. Without Pa, Johnny's family can barely scrape by. But when there's an offer to take his mules and wagon on a bold mission to supply the Rebel troops, Johnny can't resist.".

When the stars begin to fall

  • Collier, James Lincoln
1986
Angry and frustrated that his entire family is considered to be poor trash, fourteen-year-old Harry defies his father and attempts to prove that a factory is polluting their small Adirondack community.

The empty mirror

  • Collier, James Lincoln
2006
Thirteen-year-old Nick, whose parents died in the 1918 flu epidemic, must find out why his mirror-image is causing mischief around their New England town and making sure Nick gets the blame.

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