Margaree King Mitchell. Pelican Book Group/Watershed (STL, dist.), $11.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-61116-304-9
In her first novel for teens, Mitchell (Uncle Jed’s Barbershop) explores divisions of race and class through the eyes of a petulant African-American girl whose privileged life is upended. When Lauren’s father is accused of investment fraud, the...
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Margaree King Mitchell, Author, James Ransome, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-671-76969-7
First-time author Mitchell crowds several themes--segregation, racism, the Depression, the American Dream--into her enterprising story. Sarah Jean's great uncle Jedediah, ``the only black barber in the county,'' hangs on to his ambition to open a...
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Margaree King Mitchell, Author, James Ransome, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $7.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-81913-1
At age 79, Uncle Jed, after a lifetime of obstacles (including segregation and the Great Depression), finally realizes his dream of owning a barbershop. ""Convivial descriptions of family life are enhanced by Ransome's spirited oil paintings,"" said
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Margaree King Mitchell, illus. by James E. Ransome. HarperCollins/Amistad, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-17563-4
Mitchell and Ransome, the team behind Coretta Scott King Honor–winner Uncle Jed’s Barbershop, reunite for another story set in the early 20th century, in which intimate family relationships are set against a backdrop of racial segregation. Eight-year
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Margaree King Mitchell, Author, Larry Johnson, Illustrator Bridgewater Books $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8167-4010-9
As in her Uncle Jed's Barbershop, Mitchell again tenderly explores the courage of African Americans in the pre-civil-rights-era South; this time, however, she addresses the evils of segregation more directly. The narrator, known as Little Joe...
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