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'Yo! Yes!' is a children's picture book by American author and illustrator Chris Raschka. ''Yo! Yes!'' was published by Scholastic in 1993.

Description
''Yo! Yes!'' is a paper back book measuring 7.60(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.20(d)

Plot
A Caucasian child and African-American child, who don't know each other, meet and on the street and go through a series of one word exchanges ending in them both high-fiving each other and becoming friends.

Critical Reception
Good Reads calls the book "An effective, unusual 34-word story of the beginnings of a friendship, accompanied by wild and wonderful illustrations." The review by Publishers Weekly says "the story relies on the expressiveness... and the raw energy of the artwork to hook the reader."'

Description
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad! is a hard cover book measuring 9.30(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.50(d)

Plot
A young African-American slave named Henry Brown struggles to find his age because there are no records kept for slaves.Henry gets taken away from his family and sold at a slave auction and is made to work in a warehouse. When he gets older and marries his family is yet again broke up and sold at the market. To escape slavery, Henry mails himself to the north and to freedom.

Critical Reception
Good Reads calls the story "A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom." Kirkus Reviews says the "powerful portraits add a majestic element to Levine’s history-based tale of Henry “Box” Brown".