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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable. With an extraordinary gift for suspense, McKissack brings us ten original spine-tingling tales inspired by African-American history and the mystery of that eerie half-hour before nightfall--the dark thirty. "The atmosphere of each selection is skillfully developed and sustained to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a free Black man who worked as a blacksmith in Charleston, South Carolina, in the early 1800s recalls the stories from the Bible that her father shared with her, relating them to the experiences of African Americans.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tricia Ann experiences the humiliation of segregation as she ventures out into Nashville by herself in the 1950s, but bolstered by the love, respect, and pride of her grandmother and other elders, she continues on to reach "Someplace Special"--the public library where all are welcome.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rosemary Patterson learns that she will be attending an all-white school in the fall; but when her best friend is diagnosed with polio, she must face the first day of school alone.
9) Messy Bessey
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
330L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bessey finally cleans up her messy room.
Author
Series
Scraps of time volume 3
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1928, Lilly Belle Turner of Smyrna, Tennessee, participates in a young author's writing program, taught by Zora Neale Hurston and hosted by A'Lelia Walker in her Harlem teahouse at the height of the Harlem Renaissance.
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