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When Grandmama Sings

by Margaree King Mitchell

Illustrator: James E. Ransome

Ages: 6+

Published: 2012

Publisher: Amistad/HarperCollins

ISBN: 978-0-688-17563-4

Keywords: Diversity, Music, Segregation, Family

An eight-year-old African American girl accompanies her grandmother on a singing tour in the segregated South. Realistic watercolors capture the feeling of the era.