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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1958, Mendy puts herself in danger when she discovers that the Ku Klux Klan is planning to bomb the Highlander Folk School in order to disrupt a visit from Mendy's hero, Eleanor Roosevelt.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier. Includes a brief overview of the experiences of African Americans during Reconstruction, the period immediately following the Civil War.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Cécile Rey searches through many corners of 1854 New Orleans seeking a necklace, borrowed from her Tante Tay, that disappeared as she was exiting a crowded showboat. Includes facts about the 1850s.
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of Oseola McCarty, a hard-working washer woman who, without a formal education herself, donated a portion of her life savings to the University of Southern Mississippi to endow a scholarship fund for needy students.
7) Born in sin
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, fourteen-year-old Keisha pursues her dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer and medical doctor.
8) To be a drum
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Daddy Wes tells how Africans were brought to America as slaves, but promises his children that as long as they can hear the rhythm of the earth, they will be free.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Cécile Rey searches through many corners of 1854 New Orleans seeking a necklace, borrowed from her Tante Tay, that disappeared as she was exiting a crowded showboat. Includes facts about the 1850s.
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