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    By: Mattie R. Wright  
  • Further your enjoyment of Southern cuisine with a twist!  These recipes celebrate some of the best southern dishes with various contemporary dietary trends (keto, gluten-free, and dairy-free).
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    "An inspirational bookmark to connect with our own choice for summer reading -- "Making Do!"
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    "An inspirational bookmark to connect with our own choice for summer reading -- "Making Do!"

    Dee Dee's Recipe Book

    Further your enjoyment of Southern cuisine with a twist!  These recipes celebrate some of the best southern dishes with various contemporary dietary trends (keto, gluten-free, and dairy-free).
  • e-Bookmark

    "An inspirational bookmark to connect with our own choice for summer reading -- "Making Do!"

    Dee Dee's Recipe Book

    Further your enjoyment of Southern cuisine with a twist!  These recipes celebrate some of the best southern dishes with various contemporary dietary trends (keto, gluten-free, and dairy-free).

    Student Writer's Journal

    This journal is a work in progress. It is the draft of a writing extension to Making Do: Growing Up Colored in the Jim Crow South During the Great Depression as if you had me talking with you about some of the deeper themes. As it is undergoing revising, please feel free to contact me with any additional questions or themes you think should be included.
  • e-Bookmark

    “An inspirational bookmark to connect with our own choice for summer reading — “Making Do!”

    Dee Dee’s Recipe Book

    Further your enjoyment of Southern cuisine with a twist!  These recipes celebrate some of the best southern dishes with various contemporary dietary trends (keto, gluten-free, and dairy-free).

    Student Writer’s Journal

    This journal is a work in progress. It is the draft of a writing extension to Making Do: Growing Up Colored in the Jim Crow South During the Great Depression as if you had me talking with you about some of the deeper themes. As it is undergoing revising, please feel free to contact me with any additional questions or themes you think should be included.

    e-Making Do: Growing Up Colored in the Jim Crow South During the Great Depression

    Making Do – Vol. 1: Growing Up Colored in the Jim Crow South During the Great Depression is a YA, faith-based, realistic fiction novel. This coming-of-age story follows Dee Dee and Charles, two people destined to find each other as they navigate through one of the most turbulent periods of the United States, a nation that is post-reconstruction, pre-Civil Rights, and on the brink of World War II.
  • e-Bookmark

    “An inspirational bookmark to connect with our own choice for summer reading — “Making Do!”

    Dee Dee’s Recipe Book

    Further your enjoyment of Southern cuisine with a twist!  These recipes celebrate some of the best southern dishes with various contemporary dietary trends (keto, gluten-free, and dairy-free).

    Student Writer’s Journal

    This journal is a work in progress. It is the draft of a writing extension to Making Do: Growing Up Colored in the Jim Crow South During the Great Depression as if you had me talking with you about some of the deeper themes. As it is undergoing revising, please feel free to contact me with any additional questions or themes you think should be included.

    e-Making Do: Growing Up Colored in the Jim Crow South During the Great Depression

    Making Do – Vol. 1: Growing Up Colored in the Jim Crow South During the Great Depression is a YA, faith-based, realistic fiction novel. This coming-of-age story follows Dee Dee and Charles, two people destined to find each other as they navigate through one of the most turbulent periods of the United States, a nation that is post-reconstruction, pre-Civil Rights, and on the brink of World War II.

    Plus: 15-minute interview with Author

    Josie Wright Callender will be in contact with you to set up an interview.

    Plus: Audio Book when completed.

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    Making Do – Vol. 1 Believe Tuskegee Strong

    Original price was: $19.99.Current price is: $12.50.
    Making Do - Vol. 1: Growing Up Colored in the Jim Crow South During the Great Depression is a YA, faith-based, realistic fiction novel. This coming of age story follows Dee Dee and Charles, two people destined to find each other as they navigate through one of the most turbulent periods of the United States, a nation that is post reconstruction, pre-Civil Rights and on the brink of World War II.

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    Dee Dee's Sunday Box Social:

    Further your enjoyment of Southern cuisine with a twist!  These recipes celebrate some of the best southern dishes with a variety of contemporary dietary trends (keto, gluten free and dairy free).

    Student Journal:

    A must-have companion piece to Making Do: Growing Up Colored in the Jim Crow South During the Great Depression Volume 1.    
  • Poems of Southern Faith

    By:  Mattie R. Wright

    Faith-inspired poems created over a period of fifty years!  
  • This journal is a work in progress. It is the draft of a writing extension to Making Do: Growing Up Colored in the Jim Crow South During the Great Depression as if you had me talking with you about some of the deeper themes. As it is undergoing revising, please feel free to contact me with any additional questions or themes you think should be included.
  • This great read-aloud as the little truck finds joy in doing his best job!

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