No More!: Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance

Doreen Rappaport, , illus. by Shane W. Evans. . Candlewick, $7.99 (60pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-2876-5

"Rappaport creates an affecting, multitextured chronicle of slavery in America," wrote PW . "The symbolic and realistic converge effectively in Evans's oil paintings." Ages 9-12. (Jan.)

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