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Camille Yarbrough

Born: 1934 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Yarbrough was born and raised in Chicago.

Biography: Camille Yarbrough is an American musician, singer, actress, poet, activist, dancer, college teacher, radio host, television producer and author.


Awards:
  • -- Coretta Scott King Award , ''Cornrows''
  • -- Parents Choice Award, ''Summershine Queens''

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Children

Email: yarbroughchosan@aol.com
Website: http://www.ancestorhouse.net
Camille Yarbrough on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=camille+yarbrough


Selected Titles

  Cornrows
ISBN: 9780780768741 OCLC: 4504360

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York : ©1979.

Explains how the hair style of cornrows, a symbol in Africa since ancient times, can today in this country symbolize the courage of outstanding Afro-Americans.

Cornrows /
ISBN: 0698114361 OCLC: 36474739

Putnam & Grosset Group, New York : 1997, ©1979.

Explains how the hair style of cornrows, a symbol in Africa since ancient times, can today in this country symbolize the courage of outstanding Afro-Americans.

Tamika and the wisdom rings /
ISBN: 094097567X OCLC: 57497059

Just Us Books, East Orange, NJ : ©2004.

Tamika finds strength in her family, her friends, and herself as she copes with the murder of her father by drug dealers.

The modern ark :
ISBN: 0399212043 OCLC: 31171012

Putnam, New York : ©1995.

Tells about work being done by zoos in the U.S. to breed endangered species in capitivity, in hopes of restoring them to the wild.

The shimmershine queens /
ISBN: 0698113691 OCLC: 17953398

G.P. Putnam's, New York : ©1989.

Two fifth graders try to uplift themselves and their classmates out of a less than beautiful urban present by encouraging dreams and the desire to achieve them.

 

 

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