Porter, Connie Rose, 1959-

Happy birthday, Addy! : a springtime story / by Connie Porter ; illustrations, Dahl Taylor ; vignettes, Renée Graef, Geri Strigenz Bourget. - Middleton, Wis. : Pleasant Co., 1998. - p. cm. - The American girls collection .

In the spring of 1865, Addy finds inspiration from a new friend and chooses a birthday for herself as she and her parents try to shape a new life of freedom in Philadelphia despite the racial prejudice they encounter throughout the city.

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African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Birthdays--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.


United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.

PZ7.P825 / Hap 1998

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