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Mary E Lyons

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1) Letters from a slave girl : the story of Harriet Jacobs

Author

Lyons, Mary E

Language

English

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A fictionalized version of the life of Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of letters that she might have written during her slavery in North Carolina and as she prepared for escape to the North in 1842.

2) Roy makes a car

Author

Lyons, Mary E

Publisher

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

c2005

Language

English

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Roy Tyle, the best mechanic in the state of Florida, can clean spark plugs by just looking at them, and he takes a two-dollar bet that he can make an accident-proof car.

3) Stitching stars: the story quilts of Harriet Powers

Author

Lyons, Mary E

Publisher

Maxwell Macmillan International

Pub. Date

c1993

Language

English

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An illustrated biography of the African American quilter who made quilts of her favorite Bible stories and folk tales.

4) Dear Ellen Bee: a Civil War scrapbook of two Union spies

Author

Lyons, Mary E

Publisher

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

2000

Language

English

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A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.

5) Feed the children first: Irish memories of the Great Hunger

Publisher

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

c2002

Language

English

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Mary E Lyons

1) Letters from a slave girl : the story of Harriet Jacobs

2) Roy makes a car

3) Stitching stars: the story quilts of Harriet Powers

4) Dear Ellen Bee: a Civil War scrapbook of two Union spies

5) Feed the children first: Irish memories of the Great Hunger