Mitchell Barbara Books
Down Buttermilk Lane
An Amish family, traveling by buggy, spends a day doing errands in the village, visiting, and returning home in time for supper.
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Down Buttermilk Lane
An Amish family, traveling by buggy, spends a day doing errands in the village, visiting, and returning home in time for supper.
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Waterman's child
Young Annie begins with her great grandmother and tells about her family's life as fishermen on Chesapeake Bay.
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Waterman's child
Young Annie begins with her great grandmother and tells about her family's life as fishermen on Chesapeake Bay.
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Cornstalks and cannonballs
Relates how the citizens of Lewes, Delaware, outwitted the British Navy during the War of 1812.
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Tomahawks and trombones
Related how a group of Moravians, living in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, around 1755, used heavenly music to defeat the Delaware Indians.
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Shoes for everyone
By Mitchell Barbara, Barbara Mitchell
A biography of the half-Dutch/half-black Surinamese man who, despite the hardships and prejudice he found in his new Massachusetts home, invented a shoe-lasting machine that revolutionized the shoe...
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America, I hear you
Focuses on the life and musical career of the composer who wrote a number of popular musicals and brought jazz into the realm of acceptable and respectable music.
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Raggin'
By Mitchell Barbara, Barbara Mitchell
The life story of the black Texan who became a popular composer and sought to elevate ragtime to the level of classical music, only to have his talents fully recognized after his death.
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Good morning, Mr. President
Traces the life of the American poet, journalist, and historian whose lifelong interest in Abraham Lincoln led to the publishing of a multi-volume biography which won the Pulitzer Prize.
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