Books by Karen Deans and Complete Book Reviews

Karen Deans, illus. by Joe Cepeda. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1970-8
When Dr. Laurence Clifton Jones started a school band for orphaned African-American girls in 1939 Mississippi, he couldn’t have known it would lead to the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, one of the few all-female (not to mention multiracial)...
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Karen Deans, Author, Elbrite Brown, Illustrator , illus. by Elbrite Brown. Holiday $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1926-5
In her first children's book, Dean takes a reportorial approach to the Althea Gibson story and strives to give readers a sense of how the tennis star's extraordinary accomplishments fit within the context of segregated America and the...
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