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1) Black Beauty
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English
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A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story. In our electronic age, children are more likely to dial up a website than curl up with a book. But in DK Classics, expert abridgments and retellings are matched with brilliant illustrations to create books which will capture the attention of today's visually sophisticated...
3) Black Beauty
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English
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In this picture book adaptation of Anna Sewell's classic novel, a horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
4) Black Beauty
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
Faithfully based on Anne Sewell's classic novel, this beloved horse story is told by its hero, the gallant Beauty, whose joyous and heartbreaking life takes him from idyllic days on a country squire's estate to London's hard, cobblestoned streets, through decades of owners both kindly and harsh.
6) Black beauty
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English
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Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve.
Black Beauty is the classic horse story, a beautiful and touching tale told by the title character himself. Set in Victorian London, it follows...
Series
Silver volume 14
Publisher
Classic Flix
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In Black Beauty, young Anne Wendon receives a beautiful colt as a gift from her father- a horse she dubs "Black Beauty". But when the maturing Anne falls for visiting American Bill Dixon, who views her as a child, the life and well-being of her beloved Beauty is put at risk due to her impetuous behavior.
Courage of Black Beauty stars The Rifleman's Johnny Crawford as Bobby Adams- a young boy who returns to live with his estranged father after residing...
Author
Publisher
Aperture
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used his photography to popularize the political slogan "Black Is Beautiful." This monograph--the first ever dedicated to Brathwaite's remarkable career--tells the story of a key, but under-recognized, figure of the second Harlem Renaissance. Inspired by the writings of activist and black nationalist Marcus Garvey, Brathwaite, along with his older brother, Elombe Brath, founded the African...
11) Black Beauty
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English
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An 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell
The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, long enough to see her first and only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time. A compelling tale of a spirited young Thoroughbred that captured the hearts of readers throughout Victorian England when it was first published.
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English
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Black Beauty's story, as told by himself, is the fascinating tale of the life of a horse a hundred years ago, when horses were a part of daily life. Although his early colthood is happy, Black Beauty later tastes the bitterness of cruel handlers and indifferent masters as he passes from hand to hand, progressing from the country to London and back again. This, the most famous horse story ever written, is a must on everyone's reading list.
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English
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Themes: Life Lessons, Values, Identity, Justice, Mystery, Friendship, Attraction, Persuasion, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Monique Reed is a gorgeous girl, all right. Is it her fault that every guy she dates ends up having a freak...
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Unholy Trinity series volume 2
Language
English
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They're back--the boys you go out looking for precisely because your mother warned you not to--the bad boys every good girl needs at least once, if not twice. . .
Raphael "Rafe" Santiago may have left the streets years ago, but the street has never left him. A rough childhood in the Bronx taught him never to let his guard down, to keep everything in order, and always to trust that little voice in his gut that tells him when someone's got something...
16) Black Beauty
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English
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Black Beauty was a colt who was loved by a stable boy, Joe Green. Black Beauty was sold and life was not as pleasant as it was with Joe. The story follows Black Beauty through a variety of owners and in his declining years Black Beauty is sold to three you women. One of the women was engaged to Joe Green, the stable boy, and when he saw Black Beauty he was overjoyed. Joe made sure Black Beauty spent the rest of his life in a good home. The audio includes...
17) Black Beauty
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English
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Based on the all-time favorite novel by Anna Sewell, Black Beauty is a lyrical tale of the friendship and understanding between a young boy and his colt. Joe Evans (Mark Lester) and Black Beauty are parted and before their reunion, Beauty passes from owner to owner as a race horse, circus performer, military steed in India, and a worker for a coal merchant. Black Beauty is a passionate argument for the humane treatment of animals, as well as outstanding...
18) Black Beauty
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Series
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English
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This heartwarming adaptation of the novel, seen like never before, digitally restored and remastered, follows the story of the courageous stallion Black Beauty.
Publisher
Doc & Film International
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Pharrell Williams, Kanye West, Lebron James… Nowadays, the most fashionable heroes of pop culture are black men. Their love of style is not only a status symbol or a vapid superficial trend, it is rooted in a deep American cultural history, as flamboyant as it is political, that of Black Dandyism.. This movement recalls more than a century of cultural adventures, at the crossroads of fashion, arts and major social issues.
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English
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Read along as renowned author, Keshia Johnson of Beautiful Black Girl, tells the story of a young girl Mila, whose grandmother Molly takes her on a journey of falling in love with her beautiful black skin. The story of Mila's journey to self-love inspires and encourages black girls everywhere to embrace who they are and conquer the world
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