African American children's literature that helps students find themselves: Selection guidelines for grades K-3

Reading Teacher

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 810-819

  Hefflin, Bena R ^a   Barksdale Ladd, Mary Alice ^a  

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