Arna Bontemps

44 books

The Forerunners: Black Poets in America by Woodie King
The Forerunners: Black Poets in America
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Woodie King

The Forerunners: Black Poets in America

Woodie King

160 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

Free at Last: The Life of Frederick Douglass by Arna Bontemps

Free at Last: The Life of Frederick Douglass

Arna Bontemps

310 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
God Sends Sunday by Arna Bontemps

God Sends Sunday

Arna Bontemps

201 pages • first pub 1972 (editions)

fiction emotional reflective medium-paced
Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers by Arna Bontemps
Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers
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Arna Bontemps

Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers

Arna Bontemps

missing page info • first pub 1941 (editions)

poetry emotional reflective medium-paced
Great African American Literary Voices by Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, Gwendolyn Brooks, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen
Great African American Literary Voices
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Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, Gwendolyn Brooks, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen

Great African American Literary Voices

Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, Gwendolyn Brooks, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen

missing duration info • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
The Harlem Renaissance Remembered: Essays, by Arna Bontemps

The Harlem Renaissance Remembered: Essays,

Arna Bontemps

310 pages • first pub 1972 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s (Loa #218): Not Without Laughter / Black No More / The Conjure-Man Dies / Black Thunder by George Schuyler, Langston Hughes, Rafia Zafar, Rudolph Fisher, Arna Bontemps

Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s (Loa #218): Not Without Laughter / Black No More / The Conjure-Man Dies / Black Thunder

George Schuyler, Langston Hughes, Rafia Zafar, Rudolph Fisher, Arna Bontemps

800 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction reflective medium-paced
Hold Fast to Dreams by Arna Bontemps
Hold Fast to Dreams
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Arna Bontemps

Hold Fast to Dreams

Arna Bontemps

missing page info • first pub 1979 (editions)

poetry emotional reflective medium-paced
I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans by Arnold Adoff

I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans

Arnold Adoff

192 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

nonfiction poetry young adult challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Lonesome Boy by Arna Bontemps

Lonesome Boy

Arna Bontemps

28 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

adventurous fast-paced