Pat McKissack

Series

Dear America volume 5

Language

English

Description

In 1859, twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.

2) George Washington Carver: the peanut scientist

Author

Series

Lexile measure

560L

Language

English

Description

Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of the scientist who promoted the idea of crop rotation and found many uses for peanuts.

3) Louis Armstrong: jazz musician

Author

Series

Language

English

4) What is given from the heart

Author

Publisher

Schwartz & Wade Books

Pub. Date

[2019]

Edition

First edition.

Lexile measure

AD 660L

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Language

English

Description

Despite their own poverty since Daddy died, Mama tells nine-year-old James Otis they need to help Sarah, whose family lost everything in a fire.

5) Mirandy and Brother Wind

Author

Story Elements & Structure
Story Illustrations

Pub. Date

1988

Lexile measure

690L

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Language

English

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Description

To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner.

6) Carter G. Woodson: the father of Black history

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2002

Edition

Rev. ed.

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of Carter G. Woodson, the man who first pioneered the study of black history.

7) Frederick Douglass: leader against slavery

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1991

Lexile measure

570L

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Language

English

8) Mary Church Terrell: leader for equality

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1991

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Language

English

9) Mary McLeod Bethune: a great teacher

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1991

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Language

English

10) Sojourner truth: ain't I a woman?

Author

Pub. Date

1992

Lexile measure

960L

Physical Desc

186 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Language

English

11) Porch lies: tales of slicksters, tricksters, and other wily characters

Author

Pub. Date

2006

Edition

1st ed.

Lexile measure

790L

Physical Desc

xii, 146 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Language

English

12) Goin' someplace special

Author

Pub. Date

2001

Edition

1st ed.

Lexile measure

AD 730L

Physical Desc

36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Language

English

Description

In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library.

13) The all-I'll-ever-want Christmas doll

Author

Pub. Date

2007

Edition

1st ed.

Lexile measure

AD 650L

Physical Desc

36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Language

English

Description

During the Depression, three young sisters get one baby doll for Christmas and must find a way to share.

14) Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters

Author

Pub. Date

1994

Lexile measure

960L

Physical Desc

xi unnumbered pages, 68 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Language

English

15) Red-tail angels: the story of the Tuskegee airmen of World War II

Author

Pub. Date

1995

Lexile measure

1170L

Physical Desc

viii, 136 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Language

English

16) All paths lead to Bethlehem

Author

Pub. Date

1987

Physical Desc

32 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm

Language

English

17) Oh, happy, happy day!: a child's Easter in story, song, and prayer

Author

Pub. Date

1989

Physical Desc

30 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Language

English

18) My Bible ABC book

Author

Pub. Date

1987

Physical Desc

31 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Language

English

19) The Civil Rights Movement in America from 1865 to the present

Author

Pub. Date

1987

Physical Desc

320 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Language

English

20) Flossie & the fox

Author

Pub. Date

1986

Edition

Scholastic ed.

Lexile measure

610L

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

Description