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We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart

by Walter Dean Myers · 2011

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Celebrate America's freedom dream with National Book Award finalist and New York Timesbestselling author Walter Dean Myers and Caldecott Honor artist Christopher Myers!

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Over the centuries, from a blank canvas of mountains, plains, and canyons, the American landscape has been richly carved by revolution, progress, and possibility. Yet its story is still being written—by its diverse people who are united by the freedom in their hearts. With graceful, lyrical prose and evocative paintings, Newbery Honor author Walter Dean Myers and Coretta Scott King Honor artist Christopher Myers, the father-son team who created Harlem, pay tribute to the spirit and soul that is America.

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social sciencesocial scienceMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
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diversitydiversityMore like thisLess of thisAmerican historyAmerican historyMore like thisLess of thiscivil rightscivil rightsMore like thisLess of this
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USAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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picture bookschildrens
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short · 40 pages
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