I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Uncle Willie
Maya
Bailey, Jr.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.
Release Date
1979-04-28
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4.2
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