Marie Bradby Books
Once upon a farm
By Marie Bradby
Illustrations and simple rhyming text recall life for an African American family on their farm.
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The Longest Wait
By Marie Bradby
When Daddy rides off on his horse in a terrible snow storm to deliver the mail, his family anxiously awaits his return.
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More than anything else
By Marie Bradby
Nine-year-old Booker works with his father and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day when he'll be able to read.
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More than anything else
By Marie Bradby
Nine-year-old Booker works with his father and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day when he'll be able to read.
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Momma, Where Are You From
By Marie Bradby
"In this lyrical picture book, an African American mother tells her young daughter about growing up in the rural South in a time long ago.... Bradby tells of the good times with and love in every w...
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Momma, where are you from?
By Marie Bradby
Momma describes the special people and surroundings of her childhood, in a place where the edge of town met the countryside, in a time when all the children at school were brown.
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Some friend
By Marie Bradby
In 1963, Pearl, an eleven-year-old black girl in Fairfax, Virginia, learns about the real nature of friendship from the popular but untrustworthy Lenore, and Artemesia, a poor girl who moves into t...
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