Your life matters /
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TextPublisher: Fresno : Bushel & Peck Books, 2021Description: pages cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781952239311Summary: "Empowering and validating, Your Life Matters reassures Black children everywhere that no matter what they hear, no matter what they experience, no matter what they're told, their lives matter. Written by national speaker Chris Singleton, who lost his own mother in the 2015 Charleston church shooting, Your Life Matters teaches kids to stand tall in the face of racial adversity and fight for the life they dream of. Each page depicts a famous hero from Black history mentoring a child of today and encouraging them to use their mind, heart, voice, and hands in that fight. Hero-mentors in the book include: Maya Angelou, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Katherine Johnson, Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, and others"-- Provided by publisher.
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| E .S587 1964 Who wants a cheap rhinoceros? / | E .S587 2019 Butterflies on the first day of school / | E .S592 2001 Where the fairies fly / | E .S617 2021 Your life matters / | E .S631 2017 The antlered ship / | E .S635 2007 The lamb who came for dinner / | E .S637 2002 The smartest giant in town / |
"Empowering and validating, Your Life Matters reassures Black children everywhere that no matter what they hear, no matter what they experience, no matter what they're told, their lives matter. Written by national speaker Chris Singleton, who lost his own mother in the 2015 Charleston church shooting, Your Life Matters teaches kids to stand tall in the face of racial adversity and fight for the life they dream of. Each page depicts a famous hero from Black history mentoring a child of today and encouraging them to use their mind, heart, voice, and hands in that fight. Hero-mentors in the book include: Maya Angelou, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Katherine Johnson, Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, and others"-- Provided by publisher.
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