The Dream Keeper: And Other Poems

Langston Hughes. Alfred A. Knopf, $8.99 (83pp) ISBN 978-0-679-88347-0

Originally published in 1932, this edition of Hughes's vibrant poems includes seven additional poems and is enhanced by dynamic scratchboard art. All ages. (Dec.)

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