The Legend of Gravity: A Tall Basketball Tale

The Legend of Gravity: A Tall Basketball TaleIn his author illustrator debut, Coretta Scott King John Steptoeand Africana Book Awardwinning illustrator Charly Palmer spins a tall tale about a neighborhood basketball hero. Have you ever heard of Gravity? No, not gravity, the centrifugal force pulling us to the Earth. I'm talking about Gravity the greatest ball player to ever lace up a pair of sneakers. Gravity is the new kid on the Hillside Projects basketball team, the Eagles. He once jumped so

Mathematician Katherine Johnson

burning rivers

the color of impurity–and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death

He just keeps on singing his songÑafter all

where spells come alive and witches gather for the Annual Harvest Festival to celebrate the season

A devastatingly precise reimagining and a joyful celebration of sisterhood

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Reinforce your learning by tackling Reading Comprehension and Listening Comprehension practice exercises and reviewing the accompanying answers and explanations

Includes additional material at the end of the book with vocabulary

Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing

She takes apart the spurious notion of intelligence as an inherited trait

women's rights