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(0)Marilyn Nelson
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1955 people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral held by his mother, Mamie Till drew wide media attention.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author reflects on her childhood in the 1950s and her development as an artist and young woman through fifty poems that consider such influences as the Civil Rights Movement, the "Red Scare" era, and the feminist movement.
3) American ace
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Connor's grandmother leaves his dad a letter when she dies, and the letter's confession shakes their tight-knit Italian-American family: The man who raised Dad is not his birth father. But the only clues to this birth father's identity are a class ring and a pair of pilot's wings. And so Connor takes it upon himself to investigate-a pursuit that becomes even more pressing when Dad is hospitalized after a stroke. What Connor discovers will lead him...
4) Carver
Author
Language
English
Description
Something says find out why rain falls, what makes corn proud and squash so humble, the questions call like a train whistle...
George Washington Carver was determined to help the people he loved. Born enslaved in Missouri, he left home in search of an education, eventually earning his master's degree. When Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all Black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, Carver found his calling....
8) Snook alone
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Through the power of faith, a monk named Abba Jacob and his loyal rat terrier, Snook, are reunited after being separated by a ferocious storm.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fortune was a slave who lived in Waterbury, Conn., in the late 1700s. He was married and the father of 4 children. When Fortune died in 1798, his master, Dr. Porter, preserved his skeleton to further the study of anatomy. Now the skeleton is in the Mattatuck Museum where it is still being studied. There is a skeleton on display in the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut. It has been in the town for over 200 years. Over time, the bones became...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"One of America's most honored writers--a Newbery Honor medalist, Coretta Scott King Medalist, and a three-time National Book Award finalist--draws upon history, and her astonishing imagination, to revive the long lost community of Seneca Village."--Jacket.
16) Ostrich and lark
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ostrich and Lark spend their days together, Lark singing from his perch in the tree and Ostrich silent, until Ostrich finds his voice.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary true story of how JW Dear, a young Virginian who fought with Mosby's Rangers in the Civil War, went West and befriended Red Cloud, the most powerful Indian chief on the Great Northern Plains. Set during the opening of the West, the Great Sioux War of 1876, and the forcing of the Sioux onto reservations, Red Cloud and the Indian Trader is a uniquely personal insight into how betrayal, corruption, and backroom deals propelled the...
